Minnesota Lawyer

The Minnesota Judicial Branch will soon put its newly christened Minnesota Court Records Online (MCRO) interface through internal user tests, looking for any bugs before the project heads into next month’s semi-public pilot test.

A St. Paul officer who shot and wounded a Black man who emerged naked from a dumpster while being sought in connection with a sexual assault failed to measure up to department standards, the city’s police chief said.

A judge Tuesday was weighing whether to issue a temporary restraining order against a Plainview fitness center, which refused to close despite the governor’s COVID-19 shutdown order.

A GOP group’s lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to consider throwing out 2020’s election results is moot, unreasonably delayed and could erase nearly 2 million Minnesotans’ votes, respondents told the court Monday.

The presence of a potentially biased juror in a criminal sexual conduct trial has prompted the Minnesota Court of Appeals to reverse a decision by the Blue Earth County District Court.

The 57-year-old Rush City prison inmate died late Saturday at St. Joseph’s Hospital in St. Paul, according to Department of Corrections.

Though he is still making the move from Worthington to the Twin Cities, new state Supreme Court Justice Gordon Moore is adapting to his new surroundings.

Besides shuffling chairs to accommodate newly independent senators Tom Bakk and David Tomassoni, the upper chamber expanded by nine the number of committees and subcommittees it will assemble.

On Nov. 3, the Minnesota Supreme Court heard the case of Oliver the Pooch. A month before that, on Oct. 1, the state Court of Appeals heard the case of Oliver the Kitty.

The unidentified 73-year-old was an inmate at the Oak Park Heights prison, according to the Department of Corrections.