I appreciated the linked article by Jay Youngdahl in the East Bay Express, a promising and inspiring statement, in my view, showing our great strides and our on-going challenges – a fitting commemoration to the slain civil rights leader and hero. Twin Cities Public television, on-line, notes that the General Mills Foundation and the United Negro College […]
A win for blogger Crystal Cox, thanks to her lawyers, Eugene Volokh and, submitting an amicus brief, Tom Goldstein, from SCOTUS blog: The protections of the First Amendment do not turn on whether the defendant [is] a trained journalist, formally affiliated with traditional news entities, … a First Amendment distinction between the institutional press and other speakers is unworkable…With the advent […]
This post deviates from Minnesota Litigator’s normal policy of news and developments in Minnesota civil litigation. Got a problem with that? You guessed it: sue me. One of the many joys of being a civil litigator is the travel. I will be headed to Wadena County Courthouse later this month, for example (2.5 hours drive […]
I recently coined the term “flash firms” in a Minnesota Litigator post. The term comes from “flash mobs,” which were born in 2003. Wikipedia defines a “flash mob:” a group of people…assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse, often for the purposes […]
The normal pronunciation is “tell-EFF-ennee.” Plaintiff Qwest may be tempted to refer to its adversaries in the attached case, however, as in the business of “tell-a-phony.” In one of these regulatory idiosyncrasies, clever entrepreneurs have found a way of giving away free telephone services (such as conference call capabilities) to end-users and still make millions […]
If, for whatever reason, you believe that your client’s case belongs in state rather than federal court and you wish to avoid “diversity jurisdiction,” you have to do more than the plaintiffs’ lawyers did in the linked case. They essentially did nothing. All civil litigators know the bases of diversity jurisdiction, one of which is to […]
The Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board issued an opinion in 2009 that including “& Associates” to a single lawyer’s law firm name “is false and misleading if the use conveys the impression the law firm has more attorneys practicing law in the firm than is actually the case.” “& Associates” in a law firm name when the […]
It is challenging for plaintiffs to go to court — a public forum — to resolve private disputes. Howard J. Bashman’s blog, How Appealing, recently noted a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decision (Posner, J.) touching on the challenges of the confidentiality of settlement agreements, in particular. Minnesota Litigator has previously highlighted […]
Here is Minnpost’s list. It is a superb list. Many of the cases were discussed on Minnesota Litigator, but not all. Check it out. 2014 is going to be a tipping point for Minnpost. You and thousands of other Minnesotans will be reading it more than ever. You heard it here first.
The Star Tribune wrote recently about a feud among scientists in University of Minnesota’s cancer lab. The complaint of Olga Issaenko is here. The Star Tribune seems to have policies of not referring to lawyers’ names as a matter of course in reporting about law suits (Issaenko is represented by Minnesota civil litigator, Damon Ward) and […]