Minnesota Lawyer

A self-described “anti-feminist” lawyer found dead in the Catskills of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound is the prime suspect in the shooting of a federal judge’s family in New Jersey, the FBI said Monday.

Iowa, South Carolina and South Dakota have now joined Nebraska in agreeing to share state driver’s license information with the U.S. Census Bureau to help the Trump administration to determine the citizenship status of every U.S. resident.

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

In a case with potential search-and-seizure implications, the state Court of Appeals ruled that a man who had a gun stashed in his car’s center console while driving on a highway must be tried for carrying a pistol in public while intoxicated.

Anyone who wanted the Minnesota National Guard to swoop in and take control of law enforcement when civil unrest rocked the Twin Cities in late May might want to rethink that position, the guard’s adjutant general said last week.

Kyle Kroll’s sense of purpose keeps the Winthrop & Weinstine associate busy, earning him the Outstanding New Lawyer of the Year Award from the Minnesota State Bar Association’s New Lawyers Section.

A formal Senate probe into the police tactics that led to George Floyd’s death is unlikely, the Senate’s Republican majority leader said Monday.

Attorney General Keith Ellison has added four heavy-hitter trial lawyers—including one former acting U.S. solicitor general—to help prosecute the George Floyd murder case.

Overruling its referee, the state Supreme Court has suspended a 7th Judicial District public defender from practicing law for at least five years because of a felony child-porn conviction.

The Columbus statue was the lone topic of discussion by the joint Transportation/Public Safety oversight committee, which is probing Twin Cities rioting, looting and destruction between May 26 and June 10.