Minnesota Lawyer

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed an order closing over 350 square miles in the Rainy River Watershed around the town of Ely to mineral and geothermal leasing for 20 years.

For this edition of POWER 30, we’re focusing on mergers and acquisitions.

A Minnesota McDonald’s franchisee has agreed to make sweeping changes to its policies and organization regarding sexual harassment.

The Minnesota Justice Research Center says it will use a recently awarded grant to bolster efforts to make community supervision of offenders less punitive and more supportive.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Jan. 19 issued two opinions related to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Salmonella is on the menu again at a Minnesota restaurant that has had numerous health code violations, according to a lawsuit filed in Dakota County.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Jan. 13 to hear the case of 93-year-old Geraldine Tyler, whose condo was seized by Hennepin County in 2015 for failure to pay her taxes.

For the first time, the justices have gone more than three months without resolving any cases in which they heard arguments since their term began in early October.

The Minnesota House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee heard testimony Jan. 10 from the Board of Public Defense, which hopes the full House of Representatives will pass HF 90 to fully fund public defenders.

Robert J. Hamilton, Fredrikson’s chief operating officer, died unexpectedly Jan. 15, the firm announced Wednesday.