Minnesota Lawyer

The Minnesota Supreme Court has thrown out a workers' compensation danaward to retired defensive lineman Alapati Noga.

Jenny Starr, a Department of Revenue assistant commissioner, has been named the new chief administrative law judge at the state Office of Administrative Hearings.

Minnesota authorities are charging singer R. Kelly with two counts of prostitution and solicitation involving a girl under 18 for an alleged incident in 2001.

What the majority called “targeting Minnesota” to sell cars and what the dissent called “suit-irrelevant” forum contacts meant that the state could exercise specific jurisdiction in a motor vehicle accident/products liability claim against Ford Motor Company, the Supreme Court ruled.

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An Iraqi refugee in immigration custody for two years at a Sherburne County jail has been ordered released—again.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals popped the cork on a lawsuit by Minnesota farm wineries challenging the state statute that requires them to manufacture their wine with a majority of the ingredients grown or produced in Minnesota.

By way of a sealed memorandum, U.S. District Court Judge Joan Ericksen has granted summary judgment to 3M in a multidistrict litigation over its controversial patient warming device called the Bair Hugger.

Regulating police drones was the lone topic during a joint House-Senate Data Practices Subcommittee hearing, the first since the once-defunct panel got reconstituted in June.

The Minnesota County Attorneys Association partially succeeded in getting their case for increased child-porn penalties reopened by the state’s Sentencing Guidelines Commission last week. But, at least for now, they have lost.