Minnesota Lawyer

A tragic accident during what was supposed to be a happy event has resulted in a divided Minnesota Supreme Court sending a case of landowner liability back to the district level.

The following summaries of upcoming Supreme Court arguments for October 2017 were prepared from information provided by the Supreme Court Commissioner’s Office.   Monday, October 2, 2017 Supreme Court Courtroom, State Capitol Building, Second Floor Nichole Cox, Appellant vs. Mid-Minnesota ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas for now can require law enforcement to honor federal immigration requests to detain people in local jails for possible deportation under a new “sanctuary cities” law supported by the Trump administration, a federal appeals court ruled ...

MADISON, Wis. — A man accused of stealing a cache of firearms from a Wisconsin gun shop and sending a rambling anti-government manifesto to the White House before going on the run was convicted Tuesday on federal weapons charges. Jurors ...

Good news for lawyers looking for jobs — it’s a seller’s market. That’s the conclusion of the most recent salary survey by Robert Half Legal released this fall. To complicate matters, the study also reveals that nonmonetary elements of a compensation package are important.

CHICAGO — A federal appellate judge hearing arguments Tuesday in Chicago about whether investigators coerced a confession from a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” said video of detectives questioning Brendan Dassey was so disturbing that ...

Republicans won less than half the vote for the Wisconsin state Assembly in 2012 — but they still got more than 60 percent of the seats. Democrats are blaming the voting map in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could ...

Rep. Eric Lucero’s student-privacy bill was the backdrop to the Sept. 22 Legislative Commission on Data Practices hearing.

Rep. Erin Maye Quade, DFL-Apple Valley, was venting about growing childhood hunger in her community to her then-boss — Congressman Keith Ellison. “Are you going to run for office?” he asked.

Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta said Tuesday it has agreed to settle tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits by farmers over the company’s rollout of a genetically engineered corn seed variety before China approved it for imports.