Minnesota Lawyer

A bill to limit the use of employee noncompete covenants has begun making its way through the Minnesota House of Representatives.

For people around the world, the killing of George Floyd was about race. Yet in the courtrooms where police officers faced trial for their roles in Floyd’s killing, race was rarely mentioned.

President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the White House said, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.

The three Minneapolis police officers alongside Derek Chauvin at the scene of George Floyd’s killing offered a variety of reasons why they weren’t to blame. A federal jury swept them all aside Thursday.

A man deemed sexually dangerous has won reversal of his civil commitment for a second time but remains in custody after the Minnesota Court of Appeals remanded the case to Dakota County District Court.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has held that incarceration alone is not evidence of the futility of services to aid in reunification.

The person President Joe Biden wants to be the first Black female justice will become an instant celebrity — and face a unique set of pressures.

A three-judge panel has found that the city overstepped its bounds in imposing park-dedication fees, commercial development fees intended to support the creation and enhancement of parks.

A Minnesota court has again affirmed that, when balanced against a defendant’s constitutional rights, COVID mitigation practices win out.

The disruptions we saw in 2020 rippled into the work being honored in Minnesota Lawyer’s Attorneys of the Year for 2021.