OK.  Sometimes Choate is, in fact, a prestigious East Coast prep school and does rhyme with “boat.” But Minnesota real property lawyers should take note that “choate” starts with a hard “c” and rhymes with “know it” and it’s handy for mortgages to be “choate” when battling with other creditors as to whose security interest […]

Update:  Rochelle Olson gives the blow-by-blow of day one of trial… Original Post (1/4/11) : The Star Tribune’s Rochelle Olson has the details. Judge Kerr Karasov is apparently representing herself, notwithstanding the old saying about  lawyers representing themselves. (BTW, the linked article is a “lawyer’s lawyer‘s” marketing material highlighting the need for lawyers to retain […]

Filed in April, 2007, the day of reckoning draws near for employment this employment class action before U.S. District Court Judge Ann D. Montgomery (D. Minn.). The jury trial is noticed for January 11, 2011 (memorably 1/1/11) at 8:45 a.m.   The plaintiffs’ employment class action firm of Nichols Kaster goes up against Minnesota Litigator’s […]

Using Wordle.net, here is a typographical graphic of Minnesota Litigator.

Managing cash flow is a challenge for all businesses and, in particular smaller businesses.  This probably explains the appeal of flat fees or the so-called “nonrefundable retainer,” i.e., lawyers propose money up-front in exchange for work to be performed over time, with the up-front agreement that the retainer is “non-refundable.”  In exchange for the immediate […]

Update:  Perhaps Minnesota Litigator’s report, below, of the imminent demise of the “show me the note” foreclosure defense was premature?  Minnesota homeowners Steven and Tamara Gewecke make national news in a story about a supposed broadening acceptance among courts for this defense.  The Geweckes’ case is before U.S. District Court Judge John R. Tunheim and […]

The federal Telephone Consumers Protection Act or TCPA is a federal law targeting certain telephone marketing practices, but that statute seems to provide that lawsuits under the federal law should be brought in state court (“A person or entity may, if otherwise permitted by the laws or rules of court of a State, bring in […]

UPDATE:  CONFIRMED. Original Post, 12/14/2010:  Dan Gustafson, of Gustafson Gluek PLLC, and former FBA-Minnesota Chapter President, appeals to Minnesota Senators for action on U.S. Mag. Judge Susan Richard Nelson’s nomination to the district court and asks others to urge action as well.

In 2004, Frontier Insurance brought a lawsuit against Frontline Processing Corp., et al., based on a business relationship that went bad and based on Frontier’s allegations of unsound underwriting and alleged failure to pay premiums by defendants, Frontline and others.  Frontier brought the lawsuit in Hennepin County District Court (Holahan, J.).  Judge Holahan, in turn, […]

On-line or remote sales (that is, sales via telephone or mobile phone) continue their steep rise, putting the squeeze on your friendly neighborhood ________ (fill in the blank).  Small businesses across the country have already had their hands full over the past 20-30 years with the advent of the big nationwide/worldwide chains (Walmart, Costco, Minnesota’s […]