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 […]

Is wearing shoes with two inch heels sufficient reason to disqualify an employee from receiving workers’ compensation benefits? According to dissenting justices Page and Stras, that is the only reasonable interpretation for the majority’s recent opinion in Dykhoff v. Xcel Energy. Toni Dykhoff, an electrician, was required to attend training at Xcel’s office in downtown Minneapolis. Instructed […]