Minnesota Lawyer

A Minnesota law that criminalizes revenge porn is constitutional because it prohibits more than obscenity and because it passes the strict scrutiny test, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled.

The judge overseeing the case against four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd said Thursday that he would take under advisement a prosecution request to delay the trial by three months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sen. Jeremy Miller, R-Winona, who was named "acting Senate president" on Tuesday, is no longer just acting the part.

The owners of a restaurant in Dakota County have been found in contempt of court for defying a state order prohibiting indoor dining because of the coronavirus pandemic.

With the lawsuit Wisconsin Voters Alliance et al. v. Pence et al. now dismissed, a Washington, D.C., U.S. Circuit Court judge has ordered attorney Erick Kaardal to prove that he should not be referred for possible sanctions.

Privileged communications in a Minnesota Court of Appeals ruling also could serve as a warning to stay within the guardrails in matters involving joint attorney-client privilege.

Senate Republicans raised some DFL eyebrows when Sen. Jeremy Miller, R-Winona, was named to the apparently unprecedented role of “acting Senate president.”

To make it easier for the public to follow House bills through committee, the lower chamber has expanded its live webcast channels from a maximum of two to a new max of five simultaneous livestreams.

In a decision that dissenting Judge Jane Kelly said might leave two falsely jailed women with no remedy, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has remanded a lawsuit against “a rogue law enforcement officer” back to Minnesota’s U.S. District Court.

A Minnesota Court of Appeals ruling regarding a burglary case has been reversed by the state Supreme Court over what brought it the case in the first place: the definition of a firearm.