A unanimous Supreme Court today confirmed what a number of Courts of Appeal have held over the years: the First Amendment prohibits certain employees of Church organizations from suing for employment discrimination.
Twin Cities attorney Douglas Kelley was appointed receiver of the Thomas Petters ponzi scheme empire and, with the help of an army of lawyers from Lindquist & Vennum and elsewhere over the past three years or so, he has been trying to “claw back” money from third-parties who received money at some time or another […]
I guess we need another reminder. It has been a while.
The recipe for frozen water is quite widely known so many people are reluctant to pay a great deal of money for frozen water, more widely known as ice, ice cubes, or ice chips. On the other hand, when you have a party and you don’t have sufficient ice on hand, you’ll plunk down $10 […]
The Minnesota Court of Appeals last week highlighted an important new exception to the general rule that an employee who commits misconduct is not eligible for unemployment compensation.
Last week, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed the principle that a union may waive its members’ rights to bring employment-related claims in court and require those claims to be decided in binding arbitration.
Minnesota Litigator is now officially on hiatus until the New Year. 2011 has been an excellent year for Minnesota Litigator! Over 18,000 unique visitors, about 35,000 visits, and, perhaps most importantly, ever-increasing time spent by readers on the site! THANK YOU!!! Minnesota Litigator’s wishes for the year to come? More of the same! Please keep […]
The University of Minnesota sued on four patents related to a device used for repairing heart defects (an “occluder,” roughly a “hole-blocker” (here is an image of one kind of occluder). The U of M occluder looks like two umbrellas facing one another, attached at their center-points. The occluder gets snaked through a catheter into […]
Update (December 21, 2011): Witness A denies having given a statement about an accident but plaintiff’s investigating lawyer is discovered to have written, “Witness A Statement (first draft).” Turns out the witness had handwritten a statement, after all, which was eventually produced. Does the defendant get to take the deposition of the investigating lawyer on […]
Update #2 (December 20, 2011): This legal malpractice case foundered on causation and the plaintiffs recovered nothing. They have now been order to pay over $30,000 of the defendants’ costs (and, of course, had to pay their own costs, as well). Meanwhile, plaintiffs seek reversal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. […]