The revelation that a juror who helped convict a former Minneapolis police officer in the killing of George Floyd had participated in a march in Washington, D.C., months before the trial is unlikely to affect that guilty verdict, experts say.
Read More »Pumping brakes on motor park
Too many uncrossed T’s and undotted I’s mean that an environmental impact statement for a controversial motorsports park development will have to go back to the drawing board.
Read More »4 ex-cops indicted on civil rights charges in Floyd death
A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death, accusing them of willfully violating the Black man’s constitutional rights as he was restrained face-down on the pavement and gasping for air.
Read More »Police reforms: What’s being considered?
There has been intense pressure to, once again, pass police-policy reform. The House is fully on board with such proposals. But with one minor exception, the Senate is not.
Read More »Court: Reply commences civil lawsuit
A breach-of-contract civil suit commenced as soon as the appellant answered the original summons, the Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled. That’s true even though the appellant failed to return an acknowledgment-of-service form.
Read More »America’s frontier justice
University of Minnesota Law School Professor Michael Tonry hopes the book he is writing will offer a new account of the forces that have made the American justice system “systematically unjust, unprecedentedly severe and largely indifferent to defendants’ and offenders’ human dignity.”
Read More »Conference committee off to rocky start
Foreshadowing friction likely to be repeated over the coming days, racial tensions went briefly but fully on display Monday, as virtual public safety-judiciary conference committee hearings launched.
Read More »Legal network Meritas launches race and gender equity initiative
Meritas, the Minneapolis-based global network of independent law firms founded by a Maslon partner three decades ago, is launching new racial and gender equality and inclusion initiatives stemming from the police killing of George Floyd.
Read More »Conference committee lined up
A start date for the joint House-Senate judiciary and public safety committee hearing has finally been set. It begins Monday, May 3, at 9 a.m.
Read More »In-House Counsel 2021 Awards
The In-House Counsel Awards celebrate the achievements of attorneys who, among other things, navigate complicated contract negotiations, defend their companies in high-stakes litigation and defend some of their organization’s most important assets.
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