Minnesota Lawyer

President Joe Biden took quick action after his inauguration to start shifting federal inmates out of privately run prisons, where complaints of abuses abound.

A lawsuit filed earlier this month wants to include Minnesotans of color in the state’s redistricting process, which is set to begin early next year.

For the second time in two years, a Roseville-based homebuilder advocacy group is suing the city of Dayton over development fees — and this time the group is taking legal action against the city of Corcoran, as well.

Federal legal guidance out this week suggests the law is on the side of employers. That said, employment lawyers believe many businesses will want to meet hesitant workers half-way.

The cure for an improperly closed Schwartz hearing is a new, open hearing, not necessarily a new trial, the Court of Appeals has ruled in a case of first impression.

A Hennepin County Judge scheduled a hearing next week to consider a request from the Dayton’s Project developer to halt the upcoming auction of the project’s loan in New York.

As a $26 billion settlement over the toll of opioids looms, some public health experts are citing the 1998 agreement with tobacco companies as a cautionary tale of runaway government spending and missed opportunities for saving more lives.

The real estate market is on fire and family court cases are not slowing down. We recently sat down with Mitch Irwin, who specializes in mortgages in the context of divorce.

Rejecting a proposed solar garden over concerns about neighboring property values and its location on prime farmland was “arbitrary or capricious,” the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled in reversing the denial and instructing the McLeod County Board of Commissioners to approve the project with reasonable conditions.

A civil rights lawsuit filed in United States District Court is intended to address a 2015 accident that took the lives of two high school students – and that was covered up by a conspiracy among police and the administration of the school, according to the suit.