Minnesota Lawyer

The Minnesota Department of Human Rights has intervened in a discrimination lawsuit against the Anoka-Hennepin School District and School Board by J.H. on behalf of her son, N.H., a transgender teenage boy.

The governor and DFL House leaders have offered their plans. The Senate Republicans will follow Thursday.

A man breaks into a home carrying something that would probably look like a weapon to the homeowner — if she were home. Is it a weapon? And is the resident a victim if she’s not there? Those were the issues before the Minnesota Supreme Court in a decision published last week.

A rapidly evolving bill that creates a new felony crime for kickbacks and bribes connected to human services subsidies is moving through the House.

Justices weigh that question in Alby v. BNSF Railway Co., a case involving post-judgment interest.

As the Supreme Court ponders post-judgment interest in FELA cases, the Court of Appeals held that prejudgment interest is available to defendants/third-party plaintiffs under state law, running from the date the damages were incurred, i.e., the date the defendants settled with the plaintiff employees.

A Senate committee has passed a bill that would seal into statute the “severe or pervasive” judicial-review standard for sexual harassment claims. Critics have blamed that standard for blocking victims’ path to the courts.

It has been widely misreported — and this includes Minnesota Lawyer — that the United States Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to civil asset forfeiture in Timbs v. Indiana. Minnesota Lawyer wrote that “[i]n her 9-0 majority opinion, Justice Ruth Bader ...

The Minnesota Supreme Court last week upheld an earlier decision by the Minnesota Court of Appeals regarding what can be done with the blood sample of a criminal suspect who’s in an accident. But the decision didn’t come without some controversy.

When does a lawyer deserve discipline for violating a procedural rule, such as a filing deadline? The answer is important, because the 2019 Minnesota Rules of Court book has 1,303 pages of rules.