Minnesota Lawyer articles from August 2008

Minnesota Lawyer archives from August 2008

Minn. Supreme Court: State of Minnesota v. McCray, II.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Victim's Inconsistency A new trial was not warranted where a 7-year-old victim made pretrial statements that the defendant penetrated her but at trial said he did not; the court dismissed the first-degree...

Minn. Supreme Court: In the Matter of the Welfare of N.J.S.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Prior Record of Delinquency A 15-year-old who shot and killed his grandmother had no prior delinquency petitions or adjudications but the court considered evidence of behavioral incidents at school as...

Minn. Supreme Court: Perry v. State of Minnesota.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff 'Knaffla' Barred The defendant's due process claims are Knafflabarred. His prosecutorial misconduct claims are also barred, except for a claim that the prosecutor must have been on drugs during his...

Minn. Supreme Court: Whittaker v. State of Minnesota.(Minnesota )(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff 'Knaffla' Barred The evidence defendant offered in support of his petition was not unknown at the time of his trial. The statement of a witness who refused to testify is not unknown if the substance of...

Minn. Supreme Court: Brocks v. State of Minnesota.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Summarily Denied Claims of ineffective assistance of counsel are Knaffla-barred. His claim that trial counsel failed to accept a plea bargain was raised for the first time on appeal. Claims of ineffective...

Minn. Supreme Court: State of Minnesota v. Jones.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Plain Error Defendant did not object to alleged prosecutorial misconduct at trial so his claims must be evaluated under a plain-error standard. If the prosecutor invited an inference that the defendant...

Corrected amendments to the Rules of the Supreme Court on Lawyer Registration.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff Corrected amendments to the Rules of the Supreme Court on Lawyer Registration are promulgated. Full text 1 Full text 2 Case Number: C9-81-1206 Case Name: Amended Order Amending the Rules...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Colglazier v. University of Minnesota.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Quit Without Good Cause Evidence supported the finding that the relator quit without good reason caused by his employer where it showed that he was denied positions for good reason and there was no...

Minn. Court of Appeals: LaVoy v. EdVisions Cooperative Corp.(Minnesota )(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Quit Without Good Cause The record supports the ULJ's determination that relator did not quit for a good reason caused by her employer. A dispute regarding a DOE report or complaints about a director's...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Zoubek v. Voyager Electronics Corp.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Voluntary Quit; Retirement The ULJ did not err is finding that relator quit his job when he informed his manager that he was planning to retire at the end of the year. Credibility determinations are the...

Minn. Court of Appeals: State of Minnesota v. Riley.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff 'Fleeting Control' The District Court did not abuse its discretion by declining to instruct the jury on fleeting control in a case involving possession of a firearm by an ineligible person because...

Minn. Court of Appeals: State of Minnesota v. Cindrich.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Enhanced Sentence; 'Blakely' Reconsideration On remand after Blakely, the District Court empaneled a sentencing jury which found nine factors aggravating the offense of second-degree unintentional murder....

Minn. Court of Appeals: State of Minnesota v. Edwards.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Upward Departure; Assault Particularly Serious An upward durational departure was justified in a drive-by shooting case when appellant fired a gun seven times at a group of nine people and seriously...

Minn. Court of Appeals: State of Minnesota v. Gedicke.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Loud Muffler The District Court erred in excluding evidence of a traffic stop and then dismissing the complaint where a loud popping muffler on the driver's ATV created a reasonable, articulable suspicion...

U.S. District Court: Guzhagin v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff PIP Benefits; Chiropractic Plaintiff chiropractor and chiropractic clinic sued State Farm under several theories and the court grants summary judgment for State Farm. Plaintiffs' claim that State Farm...

Minn. Supreme Court: George v. Evenson, et al.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Award Subject to 'Schmidt v. Clothier' Where the parties to an arbitration agreement intended the arbitration to be characterized as a settlement subject to Schmidt notice requirements, and where injured...

Minn. Supreme Court: MacRae v. Group Health Plan, Inc., et al.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Statute of Limitations A cause of action for the negligent misdiagnosis of cancer accrues when the plaintiff suffers some legally compensable damage as a result of the misdiagnosis. The compensable damage...

Minn. Supreme Court: Beardsley v. Garcia, Jr.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Unadjudicated Father, Parenting Time; Order for Protection The unambiguous language of Minn. Stat. sec. 518B.01, subd. 6(a)(4) authorizes a District Court issuing an order for protection to award...

Minn. Supreme Court: Risdall, et al. v. Brown-Wilbert Inc., et al.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff State Registration Requirements Federal law does not preempt state registration requirements with respect to securities that purport to be, but are not in fact, federal covered securities. Two sales of...

Minn. Supreme Court: Dreyling v. Commissioner of Revenue.( Minnesota )(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Domiciliary of Minnesota Sufficient evidence existed to find that husband was a domiciliary of Minnesota and therefore a resident for tax purposes where the couple owned real estate in Minnesota and...

Minn. Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Disability Earnings Offset of Mylan Masson.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff PERA Where an employee had two full-time positions and became disabled from one but not the other, the income earned from employment could be offset against her disability benefits under Minn. Stat. sec....

Minn. Court of Appeals: In re: Building Wrecker Class B License by Keith Carlson, C & H Excavating.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Building Wrecker License Revoked The revocation of relator's business license was not arbitrary or capricious and his procedural rights were not violated where relator had reasonable notice and a hearing....

Minn. Court of Appeals: In the Matter of William N. Dudley, D.V.M.( Minnesota )(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Veterinary Medicine License Revoked The revocation of relator's medical license was not arbitrary and capricious where evidence of past disciplinary orders was admitted for the permissible purpose of...

Minn. Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: Jose (NMN) Garza.( Minnesota )(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff SDP There was clear and convincing evidence that the appellant was highly likely to reoffend where the evidence showed that appellant had sexual urges toward young females and puts himself in situations...

Minn. Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: Joshua Phillip Ellringer.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Petition Denied The District Court did not err in finding that respondent did not engage in harmful sexual conduct where he was not convicted of an act enumerated in the Minnesota Commitment and Treatment...

Minn. Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: Marion Otis Owens.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff SDP; SPP The District Court did not err when it gave more weight to witnesses who said that the appellant was likely to reoffend if not civilly committed. The court's credibility determinations of the...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Bosse et al. v. City of Ottertail, et al.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Mandamus; Injunction; Zoning Dispute The District Court did not abuse its discretion by denying mandamus and injunctive relief in connection with the disputed construction of a garage on respondent's...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Martin v. Commissioner of Public Safety.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Refusal; Right to Counsel Where a driver was given two opportunities adding up to 50 minutes of time with telephone books and a telephone between 5 a.m. and 5:52 a.m., and the driver called his mother...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Von St. James, et al. v. 3M Corporation, et al.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Minimum Contacts Where defendant is a South Dakota corporation and plaintiff did not establish that its contacts with Minnesota are related to her having contracted mesothelioma as a result of inhaling...

Minn. Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Estate of Arthur Mathewson, deceased.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Newly Discovered Evidence; Abuse of Discretion The District Court abused its discretion when it modified an order awarding the appellant the contents of a safe deposit box due to newly discovered...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Hammann v. Turnstone Calhoun L.L.C., et al.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Breach of Purchase Agreement; Damages The District Court did not abuse its discretion when it granted summary judgment in favor of parties who had no contractual relationship with the appellant or where...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Helgeson et al. v. Franklin.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Contract for Deed; Cancellation; Injunction A temporary injunction was proper where it would not harm the appellant but the absence of an injunction would harm the respondents and respondents established...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Winskowski et al. v. Bruss et al.(Minnestota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Grantor's Intent; Adverse Possession The District Court correctly determined that the platter of the property in question intended the boundary line to extend to the disputed parcel of land where the...

Minn. Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: H.H. and G.M., Parents.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Dismissal in Child's Best Interest The District Court did not err in refusing to terminate father's parental rights where the child would continue in mother's custody, mother would remain involved with...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Bushard v. Contractors Edge Inc.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Actively Seeking Employment Relator's hearing was fair where he said he was comfortable discussing his job search and had opportunity to offer information documenting his job search. Another hearing on...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Dorner v. Department of Employment and Economic Development.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Effective Date of Benefit Account Where the relator opened a benefit account on April 30, 2006, she is precluded by statute from receiving benefits on that account after April 28, 2007. She did not...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Berg v. Apol's Harley Davidson Inc.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Misconduct An employee was discharged for misconduct when he did not correct problems with his professional appearance that he had been warned about, he was late to work and missed a meeting, and where he...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Brenes v. Guy Metals Inc.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Misconduct Evidence supported the determination that an employee was discharged for misconduct where she violated the company's policy prohibiting the receipt or transmission of personal e-mails or...

Minn. Court of Appeals: Voll v. Archway Marketing Services, Inc.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Misconduct The finding that relator was discharged for misconduct was not erroneous where the relator had received multiple written warnings about violating the employer's insubordination policy. The ULJ...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. McFarlin.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Probation; 'Unique Facts' Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to distribute cocaine base was sentenced to three years of probation, the sentence is affirmed over the government's...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Henson.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Procedural Error; Harmless-Error Analysis Even though a District Court erred by applying a presumption of reasonableness to a sentence within the advisory range for a defendant in a weapon possession...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Zastrow.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Reasonableness; Child Pornography Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child was sentenced to 240 months, the sentence was within the advisory guidelines range of 210 to...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Razo-Guerra; U.S. v. Rubio-Guerrero.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Safety-Valve Relief; Enhancement Where defendants convicted of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana were sentenced to 240 and 135 months, the District Court did not err in finding...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Rhone.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Special Condition; Juvenile Offense Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to weapons offenses was ordered as a special condition of his supervised release to register as a sex offender based on a prior...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Bloate.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Pretrial Motion; Preparation Time Where a District Court expressly extended the deadline for filing pretrial motions at a defendant's request and the defendant asserted a Speedy Trial Act violation,...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Payne.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Reasonable Suspicion; Minor Violation Even though an officer pulled over a vehicle based on a mistaken belief that the vehicle lacked a front license plate, the mistaken belief was objectively...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Dembry.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Probable Cause Where officers saw defendant run away from them in an area known for criminal activity and the evidence supported the District Court's determination that an officer testified credibly...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Davis; U.S. v. Edwards.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Sufficiency of Evidence; Out-of-Court Statements Where defendants were convicted of one count of malicious use of fire causing personal injury and death, sufficient evidence including one defendant's...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Paton.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Life Sentence; Plea Agreement Where a defendant in a child pornography case challenged the denial of a motion to suppress evidence seized from him at a park where he was interviewed, the defendant...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Williams.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Prior Convictions; Life Sentence (1) Where a defendant was convicted of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and possession, the District Court did not err in admitting evidence of defendant's...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Smulls v. Roper.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Death Penalty; 'Batson' Where a prosecutor in a first-degree murder trial struck the only African-American juror based on her occupation as a mail carrier and her demeanor, the record supported the...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Armstrong v. Kemna.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Witnesses Where trial counsel for a defendant in a murder trial failed to secure the presence of out-of-state witnesses, counsel did not exercise reasonable diligence because a reasonably competent...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Hughes.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Admissibility; Fur-Buying License Where a defendant convicted of buying furs without a license sought to introduce a statement that he made to a friend and business associate, the statement was...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Boal.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Disbursement; Authority Where a District Court attempted an equitable resolution of a dispute over a restitution payment by ordering the payment to be disbursed to the mortgage company of the...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Becker.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Consent; Probation Violation Where officers searched defendant's home and questioned him about drug use, under the terms of his probation defendant had agreed to a search of his home or person upon...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. James.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Motel Room; Expectation of Privacy Where evidence showed that a defendant had abandoned a motel room before an officer entered the room to conduct a warrantless search for evidence to corroborate a...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Mooney.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Guidelines; Factors Where a District Court's statements showed that it heard a defendant's arguments for a downward variance and found them unpersuasive, based on the entire sentencing record the...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Roundtree.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Prior Conviction; Witnesses Where a defendant was sentenced to life in prison as the result of his conviction for distribution of heroin that resulted in the death of another person, evidence of a...

Commentary: Facing reality when a firm's survival is at stake.(Column)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Edward Poll In times like these, the old cliche about the economy hits home: If other people lose their jobs, it's a recession; if I lose my job, it's a depression. In a recent column I discussed how law firms can deal with...

Minnesota Lawyers in the News: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter David Herr and David Schultz, attorneys with the litigation practice group at Maslon, Edelman, Borman & Brand, LLP, have been appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Saint Mary's Hospital of Rochester, Minn. v. Leavitt.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff Medicare Reimbursement; Adjustment Request; Timeliness Where a hospital sought judicial review after its adjustment request for Medicare reimbursement was denied as untimely, summary judgment in favor of...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Johnson v. U.S.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff FTCA; Unlawful Arrest; Scope of Employment Where plaintiff brought an action under the Federal Tort Claims Act after he was allegedly unlawfully arrested and beaten by a correctional officer from the Bureau...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Fowler v. Crawford, et al.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Inmate Suit; Native American; Sweat Lodge Where a Native American prison inmate brought a civil rights action against prison officials for denying him a sweat lodge for religious practices, the...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Heaton v. The Weitz Company, Inc.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Retaliation; Emotional Distress; Punitive Damages Where a superintendent ironworker who was laid off and not rehired after he complained of racial discrimination showed escalating adverse action...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Urban Hotel Development Company v. President Development Group.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Operating Agreement; Validity of Removal; LLC (1) Where a hotel development company brought claims of breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty against limited liability companies organized to...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. State of Missouri, et al.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Voter Registration Act; Compliance; Local Election Agencies Where the United States brought an action against Missouri claiming the state was not in compliance with the National Voter Registration...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Hassen v. Mukasey.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Adjustment of Status; Marriage; Asylum Where an Ethiopian woman married an American man but they lived apart more than they lived together and she did not have his phone number or know where he lived...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Osakwe v. Mukasey.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Adjustment of Status; Second Marriage; Inconsistent Rulings Where an immigration judge denied an immigrant's motion to remand for an adjustment of status after his second marriage based on a finding...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Redd v. Mukasey.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Asylum; Persecution; Credibility Where a Liberian citizen sought review of the denial of his application for asylum, the citizen did not meet his burden of demonstrating his credibility and failed to...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Farish.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Prior Acts; Restitution Where the government presented evidence in an arson case that the defendant had committed domestic abuse against the alleged arson victim, the evidence was relevant to motive,...

'Good-faith' law goes into effect in Minnesota.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Michelle Lore Lori Bearbower suffered a significant back injury after her vehicle was rear-ended on an on-ramp. The tortfeasor's insurance company offered only $7,500 of the available $30,000 policy to settle the claim. Her...

Minnesota Supreme Court: Blanket SOL accrual rule rejected in cancer cases.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Michelle Lore In a case of interest to med-mal practitioners across the state, the Minnesota Supreme Court opted not to adopt a blanket rule that the statute of limitations in a cancer misdiagnosis case begins to run at the time of...

Hennepin judges, lawyers put collaborative training plan in motion.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Barbara L. Jones Imagine demonstrating your oral argument skills in a mock motion hearing in front of a group of co-workers and partners. Next imagine that you are a partner demonstrating your techniques in front of your employees...

A primary primer: The Ramsey County judicial race.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Barbara L. Jones When a judicial spot on the ballot is vacant, lawyers line up like thoroughbreds waiting for the starting gate to rise. As we reported last week, that's the case for the one open seat in Hennepin County, where six...

Minnesota Supreme Court upholds parenting award in OFP proceeding.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff In a 4-2 decision, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld an award of temporary parenting time to an unmarried father in an action brought against him by the child's mother for an order for protection under the...

Sanctions issued by Hennepin County District Court judge against plaintiff, Chicago law firm.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff Hennepin County District Court Judge Thomas W. Wexler has ordered a plaintiff and his Chicago law firm to pay more than $37,700 in sanctions for submitting false affidavits and memoranda in response to a...

I-35W bridge collapse panel announces website.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter The Special Master Panel charged with reviewing injury claims against the state related to the I-35W bridge collapse now has a website that contains information on the claims process. The site can be...

Not shaving costs Harley-Davidson salesman in Minnesota his job, benefits.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Unkempt facial hair has cost a former Harley-Davidson salesman in western Minnesota unemployment benefits after he was fired. The Minnesota Court of Appeals last week agreed that Alexandria's...

What's Hot & What's Not: Communications Law.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Dan Heilman A few months ago in this space, we took a look at what's hot and what's not in the area of telecom law (see the April 21 edition of Minnesota Lawyer). But telecom is but one segment of the giant, fast-moving...

Baby bottle suits start to heat up.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Kimberly Atkins A wave of toxic tort lawsuits is claiming that manufacturers of baby bottles, bottle liners and sippy cups failed to tell consumers their products contain a chemical that poses a risk of cancer, deformities and...

Firms teach their young lawyers how to write.(Reprint)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Nora Lockwood Tooher Daniel Schaefer, 27, a second-year student at The George Washington University Law School, spends hours writing research papers for school. But as a summer associate at Dickstein Shapiro, a 400-lawyer firm based...

Across the Region.
August 4, 2008... Byline: The Associated Press SOUTH DAKOTA Beating allegations lawsuit dismissed A lawsuit by a man who says he was headed to his home at Kenel on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation when he was severely beaten by an off-duty jail...

Minnesota Bar Buzz: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Mitchell Professor headed to Azerbaijan William Mitchell College of Law professor Anthony S. Winer has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the Academy of Public Administration in...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Phelps.(Brief article)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Reporter Factors; Criminal History Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to possession of pseudoephedrine with intent to manufacture methamphetamine was sentenced to 84 months, the defendant did not show that...