Minnesota Lawyer

A federal judge is allowing part of a Minnesota lawyer’s suit for defamation, tortious interference, abuse of process and conspiracy to move forward against a self-styled celebrity manager and his ex-lawyers.

A 70-year-old LeRoy man is the ninth Minnesota prisoner, and fifth incarcerated in the Faribault facility, to die of COVID-19.

Shirley Abrahamson, the longest-serving Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in state history and the first woman to serve on the high court, has died. She was 87.

A family is feeling vindicated with the reinstatement of a jury verdict and a $500,000 damages award in a medical malpractice action stemming from their mother’s 2013 death.

Reflecting a sunnier-than-expected budget outlook for the rest of the fiscal year, the Minnesota Judicial Council on Thursday eased some of the cost-saving measures it put in place shortly after the pandemic struck.

As a wave of antitrust actions surges against Google and Facebook, states in two lawsuits are stretching beyond the cases made by federal competition enforcers to level bold new claims.

Myon Burrell was not the only applicant to walk away happy from the state Board of Pardons meeting on Dec. 15. Of 21 requests for pardons or commutations heard by the three-member panel, only six were denied outright.

Two more Minnesota prison inmates have died from COVID-19, making a total of eight since the pandemic began.

A scholar of ethics and political philosophy looks at whether there should be a presidential pardon power at all in a democracy governed by the rule of law.

The cases in the remand order involve 16 civilian-contractor plaintiffs and consolidated actions involving more than 500 non-contractor civilian plaintiffs who wore earplugs to protect against loud and damaging sounds.