Minnesota Lawyer

A federal appeals court upheld a ruling clearing Harvard University of discrimination against Asian American applicants.

Now that the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to end the 2020 census count, the courts should not interfere with efforts to meet a year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats by state, Department of Justice attorneys said recently in court papers.

Elected officials, union leaders and advocates for construction workers threw their support behind a new initiative to combat wage theft, harassment and other worker abuses on Minnesota jobsites.

A federal judge has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September and ordered the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident to continue for another month.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for fast action on its effort, blocked by a lower court, to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to determine how many congressional seats each state gets.

Cynthia Bauerly, the Minnesota Department of Revenue commissioner, will leave her post next month. She is the third of Gov. Tim Walz’s commissioners to either be fired or walk away since mid-August.

The prospect that President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans will fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat before the year is out has ignited a call for major changes on the court, including expanding the number of justices.

U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen heard arguments in Missoula on a motion by President Donald Trump’s campaign and other Republican groups who want to overturn an option that Gov. Steve Bullock gave counties to hold the election by mail to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

For Mitchell Hamline School of Law professor Colette Routel, having the U.S. Supreme Court cite an amicus brief she co-wrote in its landmark McGirt v. Oklahoma opinion was “not nearly as big as this great victory” for tribal sovereignty.

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison was one of 13 states’ attorneys general to sue U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, President Donald Trump and the U.S. Postal Service over the “cost-cutting” policy.