Professional malpractice claims may be some of the most challenging cases to bring for a host of reasons but there such cases brought every day. Ralph Schmitz was negotiating a transaction with the help of legal counsel from the law firm of Rinke Noonan. The deal did not go forward. Consequently, Schmitz got sued and $1 […]
We’re coming up on a holiday weekend and presumably counsel and clients alike do not relish unforeseen “to do” items imposed the latter part of this week, with a deadline of early next week. That is the fate of defendants in CH Robinson v. Maxxum Group LLC, et al. Defendants removed the case from state […]
Moving to amend a complaint to add parties is increasingly tricky these days, and, as District of Minnesota U.S. Mag. Judge Erickson’s recent order (here) highlights, plaintiffs delay or put off moving to amend at their peril. Having elected not to conduct any formal discovery when it was available to it, Linamar has abjectly failed to demonstrate […]
Lazaro Ortiz brought suit against The University Club of St. Paul and others for alleged employment discrimination. The parties agreed to settle their differences in large part, one would expect, based on the payment of money from the defendants to the plaintiff. But the settlement all signed and delivered, the money was not forthcoming. Apparently, […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the organization that puts on the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Massachusetts can exclude gay and lesbian participation consistent with the First Amendment (Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc., 515 U.S. 557 (1995)), so can GLBT Pride exclude an anti-gay participant in its […]
R.J. Swenson, owner of a farm in Fifty Lakes, Minnesota, found a dead bear on his property in November, 2007. Swenson, a hunter, was interested in getting the bear’s head stuffed by a taxidermist but also wanted to be sure that this would not violate rules of Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources, so he had […]
Earlier, Minnesota Litigator covered the fight between Michael Afremov on one side and Computer Forensic Services and Mark Lanterman, on the other in state court over the substantial expense of Lanterman’s work as a computer forensics expert (data storage costs, specifically). The fight has another (federal??) front: an order from U.S. District Court Mag. Judge […]
As covered on Minnesota Litigator repeatedly over the past year, the CompuCredit case has been hard fought and today’s Star Tribune reports that the latest chapter is a motion for sanctions against CompuCredit’s counsel, Robins Kaplan. In due course, Minnesota Litigator will follow up but for now, simply posts defendants’ memorandum in support of their […]
One of the more heavily reported pieces of civil litigation in the U.S. District Court, D. Minn., by Minnesota Litigator has been the lawsuit brought by Lyle Berman and Lakes Entertainment against the famed securities fraud class action litigation firm Milberg L.L.P., Bill Lerach, and others (see entries here). To recap: Berman and Lakes Entertainment […]
[UPDATE: Trial is set for August 24 according to today’s press release by plaintiffs’ counsel] Defendants Celestica Corporation and Adecco USA sought summary judgment to defeat claimed violations of the Civil Rights Act and the Minnesota Human Rights Act arising out of their alleged failure to accommodate the needs of 21 Plaintiff Muslim workers and […]