Minnesota Lawyer

A virtual panel held by Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. discussed challenges facing state tax laws, as well as expected minimal changes to these laws.

The board advising Attorney General Keith Ellison’s new Conviction Review Unit (CRU) appears to want it to stretch beyond just examining claims of innocence.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued a new statewide mask order on Thursday, an hour after the Republican-controlled Legislature voted to repeal his previous mandate saying he didn’t have authority to make such a decree.

Just weeks before Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin goes on trial for the killing of George Floyd, Republicans and Democrats at the Minnesota Capitol House have gone to war over rioting.

A jury has awarded a woman $30,000 for false imprisonment after she was held in the Anoka County jail without access to an attorney, then turned over to federal immigration authorities.

Judge John R. Tunheim offers some advice for the state’s other courts, members of which watched how things went in Tunheim’s remote courtroom with keen interest.

The narrow Minnesota Court of Appeals majority that affirmed former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor’s murder conviction and the dissenting judge who would reverse and convict on manslaughter were both right — and wrong — in their decisions, according to a law professor.

The Subcommittee on Legislative Process Reform’s two 2021 hearings have largely been consumed by presentations that seemed to have little to do, at least directly, with either of the executive orders on the agenda.

Attorney Erick Kaardal is on a bit of a bad-luck streak, at least as it relates to election-law cases. But he is not letting that deter him.

Courts must consider the rights of a person subject to guardianship when reviewing a petition for a harassment restraining order made on that person’s behalf, a Minnesota Court of Appeals panel declared.