Minnesota Lawyer

The Justice Department sued Walmart, accusing it of fueling the nation’s opioid crisis by pressuring its pharmacies to fill even potentially suspicious prescriptions for the powerful painkillers.

President Donald Trump’s expected move to his Mar-a-Lago club after he leaves office next month is being challenged by a lawyer who says a 1990s agreement allowing Trump to convert the Florida property into a business prohibits anyone from living there, including him.

As a wave of antitrust actions surges against Google and Facebook, states in two lawsuits are stretching beyond the cases made by federal competition enforcers to level bold new claims.

A college dean's research on capital punishment shows victim impact statements have transformed the death penalty process, including because of how they have been dealt with by the Supreme Court.

A scholar of ethics and political philosophy looks at whether there should be a presidential pardon power at all in a democracy governed by the rule of law.

For the first time in more than three decades, the Supreme Court will hear a case involving the NCAA and what it means to be a college athlete.

Minnesota’s pardon board on Tuesday freed a Black man who was sent to prison for life as a teen in a high-profile murder case.

Attorney General William Barr is resigning amid lingering tension with the president over the president’s baseless claims of election fraud and the investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son.

In the 4-3 ruling, the court said three of Trump’s four claims were filed too late and the other was without merit. The ruling ends Trump’s legal challenges in state court.

The electionl challenge lacked one basic element: a strong legal argument that might plausibly attract some sympathy on a court now dominated by conservative justices.