The House Select Committee on Racial Justice's findings boil down to a three-line, bumper-sticker-worthy mission statement: Systemic racism is real. Systemic racism is harmful. Systemic racism must be addressed.
Read More »Rare vaccine injury claims steered to obscure office
Though most who get a coronavirus vaccine will never develop serious side effects, such rare cases are barred from federal court and instead steered to an obscure program with a record of seldom paying claims.
Read More »Relph remembered for kindness, acuity
Sen. Jerry Relph, 76, a state senator described by his colleagues as compassionate, kind and collaborative, died on Dec. 18 from COVID-19.
Read More »Weird, complex Prince-related lawsuit moves ahead
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.
Read More »Ninth Minnesota inmate dies from COVID-19
A 70-year-old LeRoy man is the ninth Minnesota prisoner, and fifth incarcerated in the Faribault facility, to die of COVID-19.
Read More »Longtime Wisconsin Justice Shirley Abrahamson dies
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.
Read More »Negligence verdict, $500,000 damages restored in woman’s death
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.
Read More »Judicial Council eases hiring freeze, other cost reductions
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.
Read More »States making bold new legal claims in 2 Google lawsuits
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.
Read More »Burrell free after commutation
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.
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