This week, the Star Tribune covered a recent lawsuit brought by a new mother whose two day-old baby was accidentally handed over to the wrong mom and breast fed by this unrelated woman at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. The plaintiff’s lawyer is Wayne A. Jagow. How much do you think this case is worth? What […]
Update (December 7, 2016): The original post, below, highlights the inherent and dramatic uncertainty of the course of civil litigation. I recently discovered that the saga continues. Minneapolis law firm, Nilan Johnson Lewis (“NJL”) is sitting on a pile of money ($2,300,653.64) related to the settlement of the underlying lawsuit but the handful of litigants […]
If the allegations in the 145-page complaint are true, I hope that the recently filed class action against for-profit on-line graduate schools, Walden University and Laureate Education, Inc. shuts these scams schools down for good. Distilled to its essence, the class action complaint alleges that the schools claim to sell graduate school educations and doctoral […]
Update (December 2, 2016): Shattuck-St. Mary was not able to strip me of my successful prediction below. Update (November 23, 2016): It is no surprise that requests to file motions for reconsideration (perhaps more accurately called, “You’re Doing it All Wrong, Boss” Motions) face long odds. We’ll see if Shattuck-St. Mary is able to strip […]
A recent reminder: U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven E. Rau (D. Minn.) is strict on deadlines. (Here is an earlier post on the topic.) In the protracted saga of Receiver R.J. Zayed’s litigation against Associated Bank due to its alleged (arguably passive) role in a Ponzi scheme (see previous post, here), the Plaintiff brought a motion […]
I am delighted to share that Minnesota Litigator has again been named an ABA Top 100 law blog — first time since 2012! I want to thank our editors (you know who you are!), post contributors, sponsors (listed in the right-side colum), and, most of all, the readers, and, among them, most of all the […]
Is it okay for courts to cite legal blogs? If you don’t yet read Max Kennerly’s Litigation & Trial, you’re welcome.
Update (November 28, 2016): Will this slip’n’slide cat-and-mouse pursuit ever end? Have a look at the linked recently filed 63-page recitation of the judgment debtors’ years of breath-taking feats of deceit and subterfuge. Try to get your head around the number of hours that lawyers spent accumulating the information in that memorandum. A court system […]
While many people are enjoying their Thanksgiving holiday break, a few of you are reading this post. You are the die-hards. I bet that you’re lawyers who love your work. Should you be admired or pitied? Who’s to say? Hats off to you, as far as I am concerned, and enjoy a puzzler: In a recently […]
In a recent post about the infrequency of civil trials in the United States, I asked whether this infrequency is a good or a bad thing. I then answered my own question, suggesting that we need to draw a distinction between “no trial” because of negotiated settlements (very often a good thing) and “no trial” […]