Minnesota Lawyer

Business lawyer Jim Schultz won the Republican primary Tuesday to take on Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison.

After being severely injured in an accident involving a crane rented from Viant Crane Service LLC, Shade Boda brought a products liability lawsuit. Affirming the district court, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld summary judgment for Viant on Aug. 2.

The University of Minnesota Law School has announced the appointment of Ra’Shya Ghee as its inaugural assistant dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Ghee will join Minnesota Law in this capacity in mid-August.

A woman who shattered her heel bone during a 2016 obstacle race did not prevail in her gross negligence claim against the race’s organizer and promoter. On Aug. 2, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s granting of summary judgment to defendants.

A jury on Friday ruled that a central Minnesota pharmacist did not violate a woman’s rights when he refused to provide her emergency contraceptives more than three years ago.

The Biden administration has filed its first legal challenge to a state abortion ban since the end of Roe v. Wade, arguing Idaho’s restrictive abortion law leaves doctors facing criminal penalties for providing abortion-related medical care to women in life-threatening medical situations.

Minnetonka Public Schools has fulfilled its obligations to a special needs student under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), according to a case decided by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones arrived at a Texas courthouse for his defamation trial for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack a hoax with the words “Save the 1st” scrawled on tape covering his mouth.

Those chafing at the overturning by the U.S. Supreme Court of the 49-year-old precedent of Roe v. Wade bemoan that the departure from stare decisis is new. In fact, the justices have done so many times in the history of the country.

A justice of Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court ruled that by making “baseless” allegations that a defense attorney’s motion was imbued with gender and racial stereotypes, a judge should have recused herself from a case.