Minnesota Lawyer

INDIANAPOLIS — A lawyer for Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill said Wednesday that calls for the Republican’s resignation over allegations that he drunkenly groped a state lawmaker and three legislative staffers are “pure hysteria” based on a flawed initial investigation. ...

Democrats say Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s own words show he would shield President Donald Trump from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal inquiry. The reality is a bit more complicated. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Trump ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Philadelphia’s tax on soda and other sweetened drinks was upheld Wednesday when the state’s highest court rejected a challenge to the law by merchants and the beverage industry. The Supreme Court ruled the 1.5-cent-per-ounce levy is aimed ...

MGM Resorts International sued the victims of a Las Vegas music festival mass shooting in an effort to block any potential compensation claims against it. The owner of the Mandalay Bay hotel claims a 2002 federal statute wipes out liability ...

Top Republican lawmakers on Tuesday attacked one of the legal protections most prized by social media companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc., questioning whether they should be held liable for content posted by users. House Judiciary Chairman ...

President Donald Trump’s penchant for demeaning groups of people — whether referring to Mexicans as “bad hombres” or calling transgender soldiers a distraction to military readiness — has more than once put his administration in the hot seat in court. ...

A National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge rejected a settlement proposed by McDonald’s Corp. to settle a long-running workplace-retaliation case. The agreement would have resolved allegations by McDonald’s franchise employees that they were fired for their participation in the ...

Johnson & Johnson slipped as investors began to assess the potential long-term costs to the company of the legal saga surrounding its talc products. On Thursday, a jury ordered the company to pay $4.69 billion to women who claimed asbestos ...

A top Republican lawmaker wants the GOP to move on from its nearly decade-long obsession with killing the Dodd-Frank Act. U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, a member of House Republican leadership and the GOP front-runner to become the next chairman of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A lawsuit challenging Alabama’s lethal injection process took an unexpected turn Tuesday after eight inmate plaintiffs asked to be put to death by the state’s new execution method: inhaling nitrogen gas. The Alabama attorney general’s office and ...