Minnesota Lawyer

The rule that bars police from citing alcohol dissipating from a suspected drunk driver’s bloodstream as justification for a warrantless blood or urine test applies retroactively, a Minnesota Court of Appeals panel has found.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced the nomination of a 38-year-old judge and ally of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to serve on a federal appeals court, despite Democrats’ objections that he’s inexperienced and biased against the Obama health care law.

For 40 years, the firm helped prosecute Minneapolis misdemeanor cases.

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

The case is closely watched in battleground Wisconsin, a state President Donald Trump won by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016.

In what appears to be a Minnesota first, Judge Nancy E. Bresel overrules U.S. government objections in granting an emergency sentence reduction.

The District Court had boosted Sheriff Kurt Freitag's pay to almost $114,000.

A Ruling by the state Supreme Court opens the way for a defamation trial.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is being asked to release a prisoner who has been fighting his murder conviction for years and now is stricken with COVID-19.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he believes officer Derek Chauvin should be charged in Monday’s death of George Floyd.