Minnesota Lawyer

The Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death-row inmates following a monthslong legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the first time since 2003.

The U.S. Treasury Department must release $679 million in coronavirus relief funding for tribes that it intended to withhold while a court challenge over the agency’s initial round of payments to tribal governments played out in court, a federal judge ruled.

After 13 hours of special session hearings over two days, the DFL-led House Public Safety committee on Monday passed three mini-omnibus bills that constitute a sweeping police-reform package.

Abolition of champerty may well increase the frequency of litigation financing. Minnesota lawyers will have to be alert to several ethics issues.

The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce had challenged Minneapolis' "Sick and Safe Time" law.

Our review of issues in state and national news, with a rotating cast of political people in the know.

The DFL House leader wants the special session to tackle police reform.

Every District Court in all of Minnesota’s counties, and all state-level appellate courts, must open at least one public service counter by June 15.

A pair of cases decided this spring by the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals upheld challenges to searches by government authorities.

Thanks to the coronavirus, instead of the drama that can accompany the announcement of a majority decision and its biting dissent, the court’s opinions are being posted online without an opportunity for the justices to be heard.