[UPDATE:  Originally posted in January, another correct Minnesota Litigator prediction, and another Plaintiff fares badly at the Minnesota Supreme Court (opinion here (Judges Page, Meyer, and Anderson, Paul, dissenting in two separate dissenting opinions)).] Let’s say an employer (say, Capella University) terminates an employee (Elen Bahr) because, asked to perform some act, she refused, sincerely […]

3M has sued TransWeb LLC for patent infringement and the case is before United States District Court Judge John R. Tunheim (D. Minn.).  TransWeb, in turn, represented by the prestigious bi-coastal litigation powerhouse, Quinn Emanuel (and locally by Leonard Street & Deinard), has a problem with that.  To hear New Jersey-based TransWeb tell it, they […]

As reported by the Native American Times, a group of about 90 American Indians has brought suit in U.S. District Court (D. Minn.) for recognition.  Here is the complaint.  The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Donovan F. Frank and newly minted U.S. Mag. Judge Leo Brisbois (whose tribal affiliation, incidentally, is with […]

It is a symptom of our times that a great deal of current civil litigation is more debt collection than anything else.  During times such as these, litigators are called upon increasingly for post-judgment enforcement — that is, “getting the money” rather than for “winning at trial” — where defendants either have no defense or […]

Thank you, readers, for following Minnesota Litigator! Readership is up to about 2,000 visits for the past month, with the vast majority from throughout the state of Minnesota (followed in order of volume by California, Illinois, New York, our neighbors in North Dakota (what’s up with that, Wisconsin?), and Texas,  respectively) — visits from a total of […]

The BNSF Railway Company once owned a railroad maintenance shop in Brainerd, Minnesota.  About 20-30 years ago, BNSF worked with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (“MPCA”) to clean up the site, agreeing to a limit of 1,400 parts per million (“ppm”) for lead contamination.  But when current owner Northern Pacific Center (“NPC”) wanted to redevelop […]

Sometimes the coincidence of a couple of court decisions released around the same time can cause one to wonder. Two recent decisions involving alleged misbehavior by chiropractors (here and here).