As the recount turns

(Minnesota Lawyer Blog)
... publication, Politics in Minnesota, it's reported that Franken's legal team too issue with former state attorney general Ken Raschke's opinion on whether Minnesota law allows the review of rejected absentee ballots. Raschke's thoughts were solicited by Secretary of State Mark Ritchie. Among other things, Rashcke points out that Minnesota Stat. 204C.35 says that "only the ballots cast in the election and the summary statements certified by the election judges may ...
November 19, 2008 10:20 am

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 11/18/08

(Real Lawyers :: Have Blogs)
... firm's World of Work Blog How Do You Compare To Other Lawyers In The Current Economy? - Legal marketing expert Tom Kane of Kane Consulting Inc. in his ... Hartford attorney Daniel Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog The Healthiest City in America... - Nutrition blogger Gerald Pugliese at Dr. Joel ... Larger Craigslist Crackdown - Minneapolis lawyer Jason Brown of the Brown Law Offices in the firm's Minnesota Criminal Defense Blog Wachovia Shoots Back: Says Its Board ...
November 19, 2008 01:33 am
... a big, nationwide issue of nursing services in schools. This article from the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago focuses on the fact that Illinois law does not require nurses in every school. But the Associated Press reports that Iowa's law requiring them is ... the ability of school districts to provide nurses in that state, which is not among the dozen or so with such legal mandates. And Minnesota's Savage Pacer reports on concerns in the Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools about nurses being spread too ...
November 18, 2008 09:00 pm
... opinions, from federal court in Oklahoma, bankruptcy courts in Texas and Pennsylvania, and state courts in Minnesota, plus ten sources in Westlaw's TP-ALL database (all in practitioner journals, not in traditional law reviews). And the Google hits - mostly from legal documents - come ... Eugene wants to know how this could have happened: Did ["Romanette"] arise at some particular law school, or in some law firm, or among users of some particular drafting manuals, and thus seem common ...
November 18, 2008 10:52 am
... . We're back to East of Eagan: More than 300,000 laws and regulations Cases from the Supreme Court and provincial, local, and special courts Current ... , Westlaw China. "This customer-centric approach, along with our own knowledge of the Chinese legal system, was used to develop Westlaw China. More and more western businesses ... single credible source of legal information relating to the practice of law in China." Westlaw's blog features interviews with Stephen Yao and Minnesota Supreme Court Justice ...
November 17, 2008 09:20 pm

SEEING RED

(Florida Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog)
Are red light cameras a help or a hindrance to traffic safety? Are they even constitutional at all? Legal challenges are popping up in several towns all over the country involving this same issue. A town in Ohio was even willing to ... . Although most courts have side stepped the constitutional question to these red light cameras, the Minnesota Supreme Court in April 2007 found their camera laws did violate the Constitution on procedural grounds. Critics of these camera laws contend that by citing ...
November 17, 2008 07:56 pm

Bullying in the Air?

(Jottings By An Employer's Lawyer)
... the Indiana case involving a heart surgeon, see my post on the case here, and Eric on a legal article from the Bench & Bar magazine, a publication of the Minnesota State Bar Association. I am not sure there is really any new spirit behind the ... . See the link to the article at Yamada on Human Dignity at the Workplace Prof Blog.) Like all things in employment law, the longer it is talked about, the more it becomes a familiar concept and at some point there comes a tipping point where it begins ...
November 17, 2008 05:21 pm
... asked his office to represent Joel Tenenbaum, who was among dozens of people who appeared in court in RIAA cases without legal help. The 24-year-old Tenenbaum is a graduate student accused by the RIAA of downloading at least seven songs and ... Beckerman said. "There are two law review articles that have said that it is unconstitutional, and there are three cases that said that it might be unconstitutional." In September, a federal judge granted a new trial to a Minnesota woman who had been ordered ...
November 17, 2008 04:36 pm
... , there are apparently all sorts of things we can and should extrapolate. In "Murder at the Drum Tower," Newsweek uses the knifing of the Minnesota couple inside Beijing's drum tower during the Olympics as evidence of China being on the verge of a total meltdown. ... factory workers into the streets." Most of China's toymakers did not file bankruptcy, they just shut down. A legal point, I know, but it further evidences the unbelievable lack of care that went into this article. Third, it is a gross ...
November 17, 2008 02:42 am
... ) 625-6691 Ryan Mathre, University News Service, (612) 625-0552 (11/12/2008) -- The Minnesota Journal of International Law will host its 2008 symposium, "Creating a Global Rule of Law ... Initiatives. CEELI was founded in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall to help develop the rule of law in countries under the former Soviet Union's control. With CEELI's enormous growth, the Center for Rule of Law Initiatives was created and includes legal reform programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the ...
November 14, 2008 03:08 pm
... Ford (at right) notes that the organization recently passed a resolution affirming its long-standing support for legal services to the disadvantaged. The resolution, Ford writes, was "compelled" by recent reports that DOJ staff had "categorized ... virtue of their involvement with legal aid, public defender, and related organizations." Ford notes that several of the organizations identified in the reports are in Minnesota. "By potentially dissuading lawyers and law students from participating in ...
November 14, 2008 10:36 am
... victims it has poisoned, but also to punish Cargill for continuing to manufacturer products that poison its customers? Here is Minnesota's Punitive Damages Statute: 549.191 CLAIM FOR PUNITIVE DAMAGES Upon commencement of a civil ... damages. After filing the suit a party may make a motion to amend the pleadings to claim punitive damages. The motion must allege the applicable legal basis under section 549.20 or other law for awarding punitive damages in the action and must be accompanied by one or ...
November 14, 2008 04:24 am
The woeful predictions that Election Day would leave behind a legacy of legal fights in state after state didn't really materialize. Lawyers were primed, only to find ... very next day (Find previous coverage here and here and here.) And in Minnesota, Al Franken, the comedian-turned-Democratic-pol who's locked in a tight race for the ... turns nastier. Here's the AP story. And there's more: In Colorado, a legal fight is looming over a narrowly passed ballot initiative that prohibits numerous voters from ...
November 13, 2008 03:36 pm
... to St. Paul attorney Hugh Markley, who was honored last weekend by the Ramsey County Bar Association for more than three decades of pro bono work on behalf of Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services. Markley received the Ramsey County Bar Association's 2008 Pro Bono Award at ... time out from his general practice, Markley has devoted thousands of hours to taking on family law and child custody cases for low-income clients throughout Ramsey County. Markley spent time ...
November 12, 2008 09:53 am
... reflect upon this Veterans Day, November 11th, also Remembrance Day in many countries of the British Commonwealth that share the legal traditions of the common law. In the style of Blawg Review, we'll update this post, today and throughout this weekend, with links ... , and we'll add those thoughts and links to this presentation. Veterans Day 2008 resources at LexLibris, the University of Minnesota Law Library Blawg. Twenty Percent of the US Population Deserves Our Thanks This Veterans Day, says Joe ...
November 11, 2008 10:47 pm
... , helping his clients make a life-altering deal. "I'd love to have time to visit the crime scene and do more legal research," Mr. Jones said. Jones quit for private practice last week. His salary when he left: $44,000 a ... , In Michigan, defenders call their state's justice "McJustice." Other states with lawsuits or public defenders turning down cases: Tennessee, Minnesota, Maryland and Arizona. In New York, In New York City, financing from the city and state for criminal defense declined by $2.7 ...
November 9, 2008 02:23 am
... push of a button or two, everyone has every case, for example, that cites a particular regulation or employs the critical legal terminology. … But law students and lawyers must continue to focus on what is relevant and what is not. With so much ... , long-time editorial cartoonist for the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press. This group of material is one of the newest additions to the remarkable collections of the Archives and Special Collections department of the University of Minnesota Libraries.
November 7, 2008 02:47 pm
... been working full time for Obama in Ohio, and my daughter is a field organizer in Minnesota!" When Obama's victory was declared and the hugs started flying, this African-American woman ... supporter understood that they, too, were part of an historic moment. The lone McCain legal worker sought shelter and camaraderie under the Obama campaign tent. He ... . One young lady was denied the vote, and I stepped into legal advocacy gear, scouring the law to push back on every reason they gave for not allowing ...
November 7, 2008 04:11 am
... votes in the Senate and perhaps even more with the results in Alaska, Georgia and Minnesota still up in the air). But there are two things we know for sure ... Congressional Democrats will act early on a number of key changes to labor and employment law. As we sit today Democrats probably only need to turn 2 Republican ... track that covers things you can begin implementing immediately, even before the legal landscape is settled, to help ensure your company is a "hardened target" for outside intervention ...
November 6, 2008 03:35 pm

Workshops: Müllerson, Okediji, Robertson

(International Law Reporter)
... Oxford Public International Law Discussion Group on "Geopolitical Context and Some Legal Aspects of the Georgia-Russia War of 2008." Ruth Okediji (Univ. of Minnesota - Law) will give a talk today at the Vanderbilt University Law School on "Beyond Fragmentation ... , Judge, Special Court for Sierra Leone) will give a lecture today at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law on "The Future of Human Rights." Beth Simmons (Harvard Univ. - Government) will give a talk today at the University of ...
November 6, 2008 12:02 am
 
 

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