Counsel in Thull v. Techtronic has an opportunity that some lawyers, but very few, get. They get to try the same case repeatedly against the same adversaries in different courts. So they get to see their adversaries’ right hook and left jab in advance. And the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota gets the benefit of […]
“If the evidence were to show that the plaintiff injured himself because of his own stupidity, would you be able to find it within yourself to award him no money even if you find he was badly injured, again, by his own stupidity?” OUT OF BOUNDS! “If the evidence showed that defendants claim they will lose hundreds of […]
Update (October 1, 2014): I hope that no one is shocked to learn that The Money Centers of America had no money to pay off the judgment that the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (Kyle, J.) awarded the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians. And now the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians might have substantially less […]
Update (September 30, 2014): Any experience with the table saw pictured at left or one like it? Do you think that experience would make you a better juror or a worse one in a case against a saw manufacturer based on a user’s serious table saw injury? I suppose that would depend on whether you loved the […]
Update (September 29, 2014): Plaintiffs in the putative class action described below signed a contract promising to bring any lawsuit under the contract in Illinois state court (Cook County). Then they filed their lawsuit against Oasis Legal Finance in Minnesota. Can plaintiffs get away with that? I expect they can’t but we’ll see. (Plaintiffs’ argument is that […]
The paucity of record evidence in this case combined with the failure of the extensive briefs associated with the present motions to connect their presentation of copious isolated facts to a coherent legal theory makes it difficult to construct a logical and/or chronological overview of the events underlying [Plaintiff’s] claims or otherwise impose order on what appears […]
Todd Sharkey does not like the officials of the City of Shoreview who rejected his application for a variance, it seems, and the lack of fond feelings might be mutual. But what I find informative and interesting about his win at the Minnesota Court of Appeals reversing the trial court’s dismissal of his lawsuit is […]
Update (September 24, 2014): The Minnesota Supreme Court has rejected the petition for review in the case discussed below. Presumably the Minnesota Supreme Court agrees with the Court of Appeals determination that the Minnesota legislature “has had decades to respond to [the Minnesota case on which the Walsh Court relied], [and the legislature] has declined to remove […]
Immigration policy is so messed up that a Minnesota landscaping business appears to have found it a relative bargain to devise a fairly complicated arrangement of illegal worker trafficking rather than simply hiring legal workers for a living wage. L&K Landscaping of St. Michael, Minnesota is alleged to have instructed an illegal Mexican immigrant residing in Minnesota […]
Happy Monday. For all you trial lawyers, judges, and, most of all, parties to civil litigation, this post’s for you. The Italian poet, Dante, portrayed the gates of hell as having an inscription, the last line of which is the title of this post in Dante’s Italian. The most common translation into English is, “Abandon all […]