The University of Minnesota Law School and the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies are hosting a forum on January 28 to discuss the future of judicial elections and judicial independence in Minnesota. (Details here.)
Forum speakers will include Minnesota Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson (’79), Administrative Law Judge at the Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings Eric Lipman, former Hennepin County Bar Association president Mary Vasaly (’83), and Mohrman & Kaardal co-founder William Mohrman, who argued Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, the 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that changed the nature of judicial elections in the state.