Minnesota Lawyer

The Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a budget early Thursday that will shift about $8 million from the police department toward violence prevention and other programs — but will keep the mayor's targeted staffing levels for sworn officers intact, averting a possible veto.

The city council in a small Minnesota farming community has voted to grant a permit that allows a controversial Nordic heritage church that has been identified as a white supremacist group to gather at an abandoned church.

The state Supreme Court is deciding whether Pope County and several of its social workers are immune from negligence claims stemming from 4-year-old Eric Dean’s death seven years ago.

A prosecutor has dismissed criminal charges against a Lanesboro hemp farmer accused of selling CBD products with such high psychoactive-ingredient concentrations that, in effect, he was selling illegal marijuana.

In a recent virtual presentation, a panel of notable lawyers excoriated the lack of diversity in the Twin Cities legal community and challenged both law firms and corporate legal divisions to step up their efforts to assemble more diverse teams.

Another Minnesota prison inmate has died from COVID-19. The man is the third inmate from the Faribault state prison to die from the disease and the sixth system wide.

The state Supreme Court has dismissed an election lawsuit, filed by a group of Republican elected officials, candidates and voters, seeking a complete audit of the 2020 election.

Two Minnesota county attorneys and the state’s attorney general pitched a bail reform model that they hope might lead other prosecutors down the same path.

By jettisoning a few, folding several together and creating some new ones, the DFL-led House will end up with a net four fewer legislative committees in 2021 than were convened last biennium.

A judge has ordered the closure of a Plainview fitness center that defied Gov. Tim Walz’s latest COVID-19 order to shut down public accommodations, including gyms.