Minnesota Lawyer articles from June 2009

Minnesota Lawyer archives from June 2009

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In re the Estate of: Grote.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Medical Assistance Benefits The entirety of any property owned in joint tenancy at the time of death by a recipient of medical assistance benefits that has passed into the estate of the recipient's...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Margolis Revocable Trust v. Huff.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Remedy for Trustee's Abuse Under Minn. Stat. sec. 501B.14, subd. 1(2) (2008), a trustee is generally prohibited from exercising a discretionary power to satisfy a duty of support owed by the trustee to...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Bridgewater Telephone Co. v. City of Monticello.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Revenue Bond; Broadband 1. The statutory language utility or other public convenience contained in Minn. Stat. sec. 475.52, subd. 1 (2008), which deals with the purpose for which a city may...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Three Putt, LLC v. City of Minnetonka.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Finality for Appeal Purposes Where the District Court entered summary judgment, dismissing all of a landowner's claims against the city and an adjacent landowner, with the exception of a trespass...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Lyon Financial Services, Inc. v. Hearyman.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Third-Party Fraud Even though an unrelated third-party may have fraudulently induced a physician to sign an equipment-finance agreement, we conclude that third-party fraud does not provide a defense to...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Shanku v. Shanku.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report OFP; Third-Party Petition Even though the District Court had subject matter jurisdiction over grandmother's petition for an order for protection (OFP) against her daughter's boyfriend on behalf of her...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In re the Guardianship and/or Conservatorship of Andreszcuk.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Incapacitated Person Where the record reflects that the proposed ward's house was filled with trash and that the water had been turned off for years; the proposed ward routinely urinated and defecated...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Geary v. Miller.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Limitation Period Where a property owner discovered in Oct. 2004 that water from the downspout on an adjacent duplex was damaging his property; and in July 2007, the owner sued the adjacent owner...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Citizens State Bank v. Raven Trading Partners, Inc.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Equitable Subrogation Even though a bank entered into its mortgage 50 days prior to execution of a second mortgage, the bank paid the balance on two pre-existing mortgages, and the second mortgagee knew...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Hautala v. ALZA Corp.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Causation; Pharmaceutical Where decedent died of fentanyl intoxication; decedent had been prescribed a pain patch which delivers the narcotic fentanyl transdermally; the physician who performed...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: V.R.B. and W.J.B.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Egregious Harm Where a physician found that the 4-year-old child had entire body bruising and abrasions and that it was clinically certain that he had been physically and emotionally abused; and the...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Chase v. FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Services Inc.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Misconduct Where claimant worked as an assistant-manager at an office and printing store; after receiving several warnings, claimant was involved in an incident with a subordinate team member in which,...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Turnbull.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Right to Bear Arms The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is not incorporated in the Due Process Clause so as to be enforceable against the states; thus, Minn. Stat. sec. 624.713 (2006),...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Crane.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Intoxilyzer Source Code Absent further developments in the ongoing litigation between the state and CMI, the manufacturer of the Intoxilyzer 5000EN, a District Court's finding that the state does not...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Gradishar.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Public Place / Under the Influence For purposes of Minn. Stat. sec. 624.7142, which prohibits an individual from carrying a firearm in a public place while under the influence of alcohol, public place...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Nelson.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Great Bodily Harm Where defendant acknowledges that he shot the victim in the face; the officer who responded found that the victim was having difficulty breathing, that he appeared to be losing...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Ferguson.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Sufficient Evidence Where the victim collapsed at work and was taken to the hospital where doctors found that her spleen was ruptured; after surgery to remove her spleen, the victim told hospital staff...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Redd.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Prior Convictions Where defendant was charged with second- and third-degree sale of a controlled substance offenses; and defendant had three prior convictions for controlled-substance crimes and one...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Supino.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Relevance; Officer's Testimony Where defendant was charged with felony domestic assault by strangulation; the officer who first encountered the victim testified that he did not see any injuries other...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Linse-Anderson.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Relevance to Motive Where the victim of defendant's assault was the wife of a man with whom defendant had had a personal and business relationship; at trial, the man testified to defendant's history of...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Skelton v. Minnesota.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Mental-Illness Defense Even though petitioner did not produce evidence that a reasonably competent attorney would have investigated a mental-illness defense under similar circumstances, we conclude that...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Tongen.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Informational Pamphlet Where the District Court provided the jury with a pamphlet titled Behind Closed Doors: A Guide for Jury Deliberations; the pamphlet is consistent with an approved jury...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Q.G.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Revocation of EJJ Status Where the offender received a stayed 144-month sentence as an extended-jurisdiction-juvenile (EJJ) offender after pleading guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct;...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Johnson.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Conditional Stay Where defendant pleaded guilty to issuing a dishonored check and the District Court stayed adjudication for one year, conditional on defendant providing documentation of his alibi and...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Coleman.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Rational Basis; Accuracy Where defendant, who was pro se, agreed to plead guilty to a terroristic-threats charge; at the plea hearing, defendant could not fully answer the prosecutor's questions because...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Roth v. Minnesota.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Voluntary Where, several days into trial, petitioner pleaded guilty to one of the charges against him and the state dropped six other charges; at his postconviction hearing, petitioner and his sisters...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Allbee.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Dog Sniff of Vehicle Where an officer looked through the windows of defendant's vehicle and saw a clear plastic baggy and a pack of rolling papers inside the baggy; and based on his experience, the...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Anderson.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report No-Knock Warrant Where the officer sought a no-knock search warrant ; and the officer's affidavit relayed evidence that defendant was using or growing marijuana and stated that in a search of...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Smith.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Downward Departure Where this court previously vacated one of defendant's convictions and remanded for resentencing on the attempted second-degree murder conviction; and defendant sought a downward...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Welfare of: J.S.H.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Accomplice Testimony Corroborated Where one accomplice testified that he obtained the keys to his father's vehicle and gave them to the juvenile so that the juvenile could remove and sell stereo...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Minnesota v. Ryks.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Possession of Firearm Where defendant's 1997 probation-discharge order indicated that the ban on firearm possession was ten years; in 2003, the legislature amended Minn. Stat. sec. 624.713 (2006) to...

Will associate salaries at big law firms tumble?
June 8, 2009... Byline: Michelle Lore For years associate starting salaries at big law firms continued to skyrocket despite dire warnings that they had reached a level that was unsustainable. At the height of the salary wars, starting associates' pay was...

DUI defense lawyers pan proposed settlement of source code dispute in Minnesota.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Barbara L. Jones Defense attorneys are critical of a proposed settlement between the state and the manufacturer of the Intoxilyzer that would give defendants some limited access to the machine's source code. They say they weren't...

Minnesota appellate court takes on thorny fee dispute.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Barbara L. Jones A Rice County case heard at the Court of Appeals last week concerning payments for parents' lawyers in child abuse and neglect cases epitomizes the frustrations of the courts' current fiscal situation. To the...

U.S. Supreme Court rules on 'pain and suffering' damages.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report A jury in a Federal Employers' Liability Act case must be instructed in the requirements a plaintiff must meet to obtain pain-and-suffering damages based on a fear of contracting cancer, the U.S....

Advocates' dinner scheduled in Minneapolis, attorneys to be honored.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report The Advocates for Human Rights will host its annual Human Rights Awards Dinner on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at the Marriott Hotel in Minneapolis. The theme of this year's event will be: Is the World...

Another delay for Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify rule.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report For a fourth time, the federal government has delayed the implementation of a rule requiring all companies working on federal contracts to electronically check the legal working status of their...

Military tribunals film discussed in webcast.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Attorney Sig Libowitz, who is also a writer, producer and actor, discussed his 2009 Silver Gavel Award-winning film, The Response, in a live webcast last week. The film is a courtroom drama based...

From the Bench: Q&A with Edward Cleary, Ramsey County District Court.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Michelle Lore Edward Cleary recalls that, immediately after leaving his job as the director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility for the Ramsey County bench seven years ago, he felt like he'd been thrown into the...

Proposed rule in Minnesota would formalize appointments in quarantine cases.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Mark A. Cohen The Minnesota court system -- already ahead of the curb nationally in its preparation for handling the legal fallout of a pandemic -- is now looking to put the final touches on its plan for handling isolation and...

Unbundled legal services increasingly popular.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Correy Stephenson In an uncertain economy, lawyers are using unbundled legal services to expand their client base. The practice of unbundling legal services, also known as limited scope representation, falls into three general...

Two Minnesota firms don't anticipate following Dorsey's lead.(Leonard, Street and Deinard and Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly)(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer staff In response to the news about Dorsey, David Potter, managing attorney at Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, said he doesn't anticipate the firm will be cutting salaries of its associates. He explained that earlier...

Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney associates now eligible for bonuses.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Dorsey & Whitney managing partner Marianne Short told Minnesota Lawyer last week that in addition to the associate salary reduction at Dorsey, leadership partners are turning back bonuses. While...

Minnesota Bar Buzz: June 8, 2009.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report An update from JAG officers in Camp Basrah Bar Buzz has received updates from Army JAG officers Jennifer Beck-Brown and Darrin Rosha. We first introduced readers to Beck-Brown and Rosha in January....

Column: Life may be unfair, but layoffs need not be.(Reprint)(Column)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Edward Poll Law firms are not exempt from the legal requirements to operate a workplace free from discrimination. That means ensuring that characteristics other than an individual’s skills, experience and knowledge do not...

Minnesota Lawyers in the News: June 8, 2009.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Timothy J. Nolan and Carl S. Wosmek have been elected shareholders with McGrann Shea Carnival Straughn & Lamb. Nolan practices in the areas of eminent domain, construction, real estate litigation and...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: State already has source code.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report There should be no more discussion in trial courts about whether the state has possession of the Intoxilyzer source code, the Court of Appeals has ruled. It does, pursuant to State v. Underdahl,...

Minnesota Supreme Court: Order Establishing Deadline for Comments on Proposed Amendments.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Amendments to Appellate Rules The Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure has proposed changes to the Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure. The court will consider the...

Minnesota Supreme Court: In re Appointments to the Board of Continuing Legal Education.(Christopher Cain and Kathleen Sanberg )(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Board of Continuing Legal Education Christopher Cain and the Hon. Kathleen Sanberg are reappointed as MSBA nominees to the Board of Continuing Legal Education. Case Number: C2-84-2163 Case...

Minnesota Supreme Court: In re Appointment to the Board of Legal Certification.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Board of Legal Certification M. William O'Brien is appointed as an MSBA nominee to the Board of Legal Certification. Case Number: CX-84-1651 Case Name: In re Appointment to the Board of Legal...

Minnesota Supreme Court: In re Appointment to the Client Security Board.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Client Security Board Richard A. Nethercut is reappointed as an MSBA nominee to the Client Security Board. Case Number: C0-85-2205 Case Name: In re Appointment to the Client Security Board...

Minnesota Supreme Court: In re Appointment to the Legal Services Advisory Committee.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Legal Services Advisory Committee Edward Cassidy is reappointed as an MSBA nominee to the Legal Services Advisory Committee. Case Number: C4-84-2164 Case Name: In re Appointment to the Legal...

Minn. Supreme Court: Deadline for Comments on Proposed Rules for Appointment of Counsel.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Attorney Representation Rules The State Court Administrator's Office filed a report recommending Special Rules for Appointment and Compensation of Counsel in Isolation and Quarantine Cases. This court...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: CDI Energy Services, Inc. v. West River Pumps.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Trade Secrets; Preliminary Injunction ; Public Interest Where an oilfield equipment company brought claims against three former employees for trade-secret misappropriation and business interference, the...

Minnesota Tax Court: HMN Financial, Inc. and Affiliates v. Commissioner of Revenue.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Sham Transactions Where a Minnesota bank created and utilized two subsidiaries as part of a sophisticated tax avoidance plan involving a captive real estate investment trust, a holding company, and the...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: Qamhiyah v. Iowa State University of Science and Technology.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Discrimination; Tenure Review; 'Cat's Paw' Rule Where an assistant professor from Pakistan brought an employment discrimination action against her university claiming that she was denied tenure due to...

Minnesota Tax Court: Crossroads Church of Prior Lake MN v. County of Dakota.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Request for Deferral of Payment Where a church brings a motion pursuant to Minn. Stat. sec. 278.03, subd. 1, for an order waiving payment of 50 percent of the tax levied against the subject property for...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: Hertz, et al. v. Woodbury County Iowa.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Fair Labor Standards Act; Overtime Compensation; Compensable Work Where police officers brought an action against their county employer for its alleged failure to pay overtime compensation in violation...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: Semple v. Federal Express Corporation.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Termination; At-Will Position; Employment Manual (1)Where a delivery courier filed a wrongful termination action, summary judgment for the employer is affirmed because the courier did not plead or prove...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: Estate of Buford L. Anderson v. Safeco Insurance Company of Illinois.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Uninsured Motorist; Denial Of Liability; Vexatious Refusal Where decedent was killed when he was swept out of a vehicle in a flood and his estate sought and was denied coverage from the driver's...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Pulliam.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Sentencing; Violent Felony Where an officer had an objectively lawful reason for stopping defendant's vehicle and the stop was conducted lawfully, the defendant did not show that a new trial was...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. O'Connor.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Child Pornography; Improper Factor Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to transportation of child pornography argued that the District Court improperly gave weight to an improper sentencing factor,...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Sohn.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Prior Convictions; Fifth Amendment Where the District Court applied an enhancement under the Armed Criminal Career Act based on a defendant's prior felony convictions and the defendant appealed the...

8th Circuit Court of Appeals: U.S. v. Bender.(Brief article)
June 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Report Special Conditions; Library Computer Violation (1)Where a defendant violated the conditions of his supervised release by viewing pornography on a public library computer and the District Court imposed a...

Personal finance tips for grads and other young folks.
June 8, 2009... Byline: Dan Emerson Last year, U.S. high school students who completed a nonprofit group's survey of their personal finance knowledge scored just 48.3 percent, on average. Minnesota students did only slightly better in the National...

Making financial planning decisions in tough times.
June 8, 2009... Byline: JOE D. JONES Let’s agree on a couple of things before I make any recommendations: 1. We are experiencing the worst recession since the Great Depression and no one saw it coming. 2. Those of us who invest in the stock...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Equity Trust Co. v. Cole.
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Piercing the Veil The equitable remedy of piercing the corporate veil is not limited to shareholders and members of corporate entities, but may be applied to impose personal liability against any parties...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In the Matter of the Risk Level Determination of D.W.(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff An end-of-confinement review committee, established by the Commissioner of Corrections, has authority under Minn. Stat. sec. 244.052, subd. 3(a) (2008), to assign a risk level to a predatory offender who has...

Risk Level; Release from Confinement.(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff An end-of-confinement review committee, established by the Commissioner of Corrections, has authority under Minn. Stat. sec. 244.052, subd. 3(a) (2008), to assign a risk level to a predatory offender who has...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Bangston v. Allina Medical Group.
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Anticipated Discharge; Misconduct 1. Under Minn. Stat. sec. 268.095 (2008), for purposes of determining eligibility for unemployment benefits, a notice of future discharge is not a discharge when...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: American Employers Insurance Co. v. Robinson Outdoors, Inc.
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Authority of Arbitrator Where, as part of their agreement to arbitrate, the parties agreed that in the event of a determination that the insured must reimburse the insurer, due to an arbitration decision...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Tweed v. Kuschel.(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Child Support; Obligor's Income Where father's 2007 tax return shows that his total business expenses were $15,641; and father received approximately $15,000 in per diem payments when he worked away from...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Bratsch v. Bratsch.(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Maintenance Even though the record supports the District Court's findings that husband's voluntary termination of his disability benefit was not in good faith and that husband's action deprived wife of...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Geiselman v. Geiselman.
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Maintenance Where the obligor's gross income (Medicare wages) in 2007 was $184,948; of that amount, $15,500 went to a 401(k) retirement plan and $11,034 went to a 409(a) non-qualified deferred...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Davis v. Davis.(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Property; Attorney Fees Where, prior to entry of a 2005 dissolution judgment and decree, husband was terminated from employment for embezzlement; after the decree was entered, the employer intervened in...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Bassett-Hegner v. Hegner.(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Property Division Where, two years prior to the marriage, Hegner obtained a loan to prevent foreclosure of Bassett's home and the parties entered into a warranty deed making them joint owners of the home;...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Lund, Jr. v. Commissioner of Public Safety.
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Intoxilyzer Source Code Where the driver submitted an affidavit of a forensic scientist describing the source code as the computer programming codes that are the source of the software on the Intoxilyzer...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Crosby v. Minnesota.(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Whistleblower; OSH Act Where an inspector for the state Occupational Safety and Health Office alleged that his supervisors directed him to alter reports in violation of the Minnesota Occupational Safety...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: In re the Estate of: Wingen.(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Discovery within Probate Proceeding Even though the children who contested their mother's will did not bring an action separate from the pending probate proceeding, we conclude that the District Court...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Mercil v. 2008 Honda Ridgeline Pickup.
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Service of Process Where petitioner failed to include an acknowledgment of service by mail when serving the county attorney, failed to file proof of service on the county attorney, and failed to serve the...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Trombley v. Stackhouse.(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Vehicle; Joint Ownership Where an employee of Q Group, an S corporation, was involved in an accident while driving a Saturn car; Lundgren-Abid, the sole shareholder/officer of the corporation, had...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Sue McLean & Associates, Inc. v. Commerce and Industry Insurance Co.
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Weather Policy Where adverse weather forced a concert promoter to terminate an outdoor concert early; the policy states that the Hours occurring are 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM ([Five] Insured Hours Each Day); and...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Law Enforcement Labor Services, Inc. v. Johnson.
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Unfair Labor Practice Where a county sheriff issued a written decision denying a deputy's grievance under the parties' collective bargaining agreement (CBA); the county board reversed the sheriff's...

Minnesota Court of Appeals: Henderson v. Fabian.(Brief article)
June 15, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Lawyer Staff Inmate's Identification Card Where the former inmate claims that his procedural due process rights were violated when he did not receive a hearing before the Department of Corrections took money from his...