That’s all, folks
The time has come to bring the curtain down on Session/Law. As of today, we cease publication.
Session/Law Sound-off
This week’s Sounding Board includes Mary Kunesh, Annette Meeks, John Kaul, Brett Corson and Corey Day. Their topics: Axtell’s exit; front-line failure; rockin’ warhorses
Human Rights’ financial audit ‘generally satisfactory’
OLA: Controls were “generally adequate” to ensure that the Minnesota Department of Human Rights safeguarded state resources, complied with significant finance-related legal requirements and resolved prior audit findings.
MCRO Phase II might wow you
When the state’s Judicial Branch unveils its updated online court records system sometime around the end of the year, users looking for legal documents will get an eyeful.
Prisoner’s negligence suit can proceed, court rules
The Court of Appeals said that the case should proceed for a finder of fact to say whether the guards displayed deliberate indifference to Welters’ physical condition.
Session/Law Agenda
Judiciary chair Q&A: “When you have prosecutors that don’t prosecute entire classes of crime, it puts the public in ultimate danger. It encourages an emboldens criminals.”
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Session/Law Sound-off
This week’s Sounding Board includes Pete Orput, Rob Doar, Ron Latz, Nick Zerwas and Mike Freiberg. Their topics: Public safety politics; stumping justices; time out!
Court of Appeals tackles ‘pre-textual’ traffic stop
The Court of Appeals took on the thorny subject of pretextual traffic stops and racial profiling during oral arguments Wednesday in State vs. Roy Lemond McPipe. But in doing so, the court ran into a problem almost immediately.
8th Circuit: Taxpayer League founder’s wife must pay $1 million
Appeals court finds no problem in no-knock search case
A man’s attempt to shed blame on his roommates for drugs and a gun found in his locked bedroom during a no-knock search has gained no traction with the Court of Appeals.
Session/Law Agenda
The state’s Judicial Council voted unanimously Thursday to approve 2.5% salary increases for all judges and court staff in the second year of the biennium. Now the Judicial Branch only has to sell the governor and the legislature on the idea.
Session/Law Sound-off
This week’s Sounding Board includes Ember Reichgott Junge, Erick Kaardal, Asad Zaman, Jennifer DeJournett, Floyd B. Olson. Their topics: Medical marijuana, executive privilege and benchsplaining.
Supreme Court: Expanded car search OK
If the dissent is correct, the case will create “too much space for future pretextual and potentially racially motivated stops and will contribute to Minnesota’s racial disparities in who is stopped and who is searched following a minor traffic stop.”
Supreme Court nixes mandatory pot reimbursements
Finding it’s impossible to comply with both state and federal laws, the state Supreme Court has put a screeching halt to mandatory medical marijuana reimbursements under Minnesota’s worker’s compensation statute.
Justices hear DNR whistleblower case
While arguing Tuesday that former DNR regional director Lori Dowling Hanson was illegally fired as a whistleblower, her attorney Marshall Tanick urged the Minnesota Supreme Court to take a step that would affect loads of future employment-law cases.
Man can be compensated after conviction reversed
A Hennepin County trial court was wrong to deny a man compensation on a theory that he was not ‘exonerated’ when his attempted murder conviction got overturned, the Court of Appeals rules.
