(Update February 12, 2015): Camtek, the Israeli maker of silicon wafer inspection tools, has been battling without much success in Minnesota for several years now and the fight continues. (Have you ever tried inspecting your own silicon wafers? Very difficult with the naked eye. I have found that detecting slip lines inside a wafer’s crystalline structure […]
We all recognize that the failure to repay one’s mortgage loan can result in the foreclosure of the loan and eviction from one’s home. It has been a painful reality for many homeowners for many years and, of course, for a whole lot of families in Minnesota and across the country over the past ten years in particular. It’s not a […]
Dale and Dennis Kleve acquired control and ownership of Kleve Heating and Air Conditioning Inc. from their dad in the late 1980’s. Then, some time in the first decade of the 2000’s, Dennis Kleve took off with $500,000 of company money. And we all encountered a little economic turbulence around the same time, the recession. Between “Klepto” Kleve’s […]
I learned yesterday afternoon from the Minnesota Lawyer (behind a paywall) that Minnesota “Supreme Court Justice Wilhelmina Wright’s name will be forwarded to President Barack Obama for a seat on the U.S. District Court.” I think she is a perfect candidate. The question is whether the U.S. Senate could possibly hold up her confirmation as one […]
Employment litigators know how difficult age-discrimination cases can be for plaintiffs. A decision this week by the 8th Circuit may have breathed new life into such claims for Minnesota plaintiffs. LeRoy Hilde was 51 years old and a highly-respected Lieutenant on the City of Eveleth police force when the Chief’s job became vacant. Before the […]
Update (February 6, 2015): Chalk up another correct prediction for Minnesota Litigator as to the dismissal of the Fountain v. Oasis Legal Finance case though I will have to concede that Sr. U.S. Judge Paul A. Magnuson’s analysis was far more thorough than mine, below. Original post (January 8, 2015) (under headline, Fountain v. Oasis […]
An in-house lawyer at a large Minnesota company tells me that access to this site, Minnesota Litigator: News & Commentary about Minnesota Litigation, is blocked at the large company where the lawyer works. Apparently the company provides “categorizations” for some blocked sites. I imagine these would group blocked sites as porn, hate-mongering, or other types of sites that are […]
Following up on yesterday’s story about the contraction of Minnesota’s “Top 25” law firms over the past five years by 224 lawyers (or nearly 10% of the total), I also made a passing reference to the fact that Minnesota lawyers’ economic challenges reverberate from the “Top 25” to “the bottom 20,000,” by which I mean all Minnesota […]
(“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” is French for “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”) The Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal came out with its top-twenty five Minnesota law firms ranked by the number of lawyers in its latest edition. The order of firm ranking stayed pretty much the same […]
Stephen Ballard’s life changed on July 22, 2011 when Robert Chesser drunkenly cruised over the center line on Arlington Avenue in Duluth and smashed into Mr. Ballard’s car, head-on. Mr. Ballard has lived the nightmare a life-changing tragedy coming from a risk that almost all of us run every day. Driving. One civil litigator nightmare concerns […]