An article in today’s Wall Street Journal discusses an emerging area of family law that has little law to guide practitioners.  Family law attorneys typically have plenty of experience dividing property and fostering agreements regarding children; dealing with frozen embryos, however, is another matter entirely. Recent years have seen breakthroughs in assisted reproductive technology and […]

Large law firms have been shrinking for several years now.  Since 2008, over 10,000 large firm lawyers have been let go across the country.  Anecdotally, Minnesota Litigator understands that every job opening in a Twin Cities legal opportunity is deluged with interested applicants. At the same time, Minnesota Public Radio has a story about how rural […]

A recent decision by Senior Judge David Doty in an inflammatory racial discrimination case arising in the Red Wing public schools provides a good overview of claims that a student who has been harassed based on her race might bring against a school district and its officials, focuses attention on the little-known Title VI (not […]

Any news-following Minnesotan is aware of the tragic attack yesterday in Grand Marais.  This is not the kind of “news and commentary” about Minnesota litigation that Minnesota Litigator is particularly equipped to cover but, on the other hand, it is sad news that cannot go without mention or notice. The challenges of rural legal practice […]

Minnesota law provides for post-judgment interest on the unpaid balance of money judgments.  Until 2009, such interest was tied to the yield of one-year United States Treasury bills.  In 2009, however, the legislature changed the law.  Interest on judgments of $50,000 or less is still based on the yield of T-Bills; interest on judgments of […]

Here is the Governor’s Press Release about soon-to-be Judge Bartolomei. Here is the Governor’s Press Release about the final field of five or two spots on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

If you are the first person to identify a federal question in this complaint on Minnesota Litigator, you win a $10 Caribou Coffee Gift Card.

Minnesota Litigator is in its third year, covering “News and Commentary about Minnesota Civil Litigation,” which is a crime by omission.  That leaves out a large swath of Minnesota litigation, of course:  criminal law. Minnesota Litigator is delighted to announce Eric Rice, our newest guest poster, who will recalibrate the scale of Minnesota Litigator by […]

“Both sides’ briefs are incredibly uncivil, incredibly nasty,”  U.S. District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz (D. Minn.) said recently in Spectralytics v. Cordis Corp., a hotly contested patent infringement litigation that went to trial before him. Stress is the consequence of the failure of an organism—human or other animal—to respond adequately to mental, emotional, or physical demands, whether actual […]

It is hardly news at this point that housing prices have fallen dramatically from their peak of a few years ago or that many homeowners have negative equity.  The faltering economy and its effect on home values continue to have repercussions for families, often reopening disagreements that divorcing couples thought had been resolved years before […]