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Court won’t extend lis pendens time limits
Without the timely filing of a lis pendens, an action to enjoin or set aside a mortgage foreclosure sale under Minn. Stat. sec. 582.043 fails because the law conclusively presumes that a failure to file means that the mortgage servicer ...
Read More »Semicolons rule in privacy-interference case
Semicolons can upend construction of a statute by separating an adverb or adjective from a word that otherwise might be modified and change the grammatical construction of a law.
Read More »Plaintiff prevails in ‘date rape’ civil suit
The Itasca County Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute her boyfriend
Read More »Constituent sues to oust Michelle Fischbach
A Sauk Rapids woman is suing to force her from her Senate seat
Read More »Michelle Fischbach leaves one hat on the Senate floor
Democrats weigh options for forcing lieutenant governor out of Legislature
Read More »An imperfect but understandable response to sexual misconduct
A column from the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault's Caroline Palmer
Read More »Commission issues juvenile-sentencing report
Efforts to change the Minnesota Heinous Crimes Act, and bring it into conformity with constitutional requirements, have languished in the Legislature.
Read More »Rebecca Otto confident court fight worth waging
Opponents question $300K price tag of challenging statute
Read More »Maslon mock trial program takes on education gap
Mock trials develop eighth-graders’ skills
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