Tag: Crime and Justice

The tobacco industry has had a tough time winning court cases in Minnesota in recent years. It won one today, however, when the Minnesota Supreme Court killed an 11-year-old lawsuit against Philip Morris that claimed the company fraudulently marketed Marlboro Lights as a safer cigarette. The Minnesota Court of Appeals had resurrected the case in Read more →

You’re a female janitor at Elk River High School. Your boss, a man, prohibits women from talking to each other, tells the male janitors he doesn’t want women on his crew, says ‘women have their place — the kitchen and the bedroom,’ and says Elk River High School is not the place for women.

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The Minnesota Court of Appeals today reversed a lower court and ruled against a former University of Minnesota associate women’s golf coach who sued the university for taking away her coaching duties after learning she is a lesbian.

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The Amy Senser trial certainly took an interesting — and confusing — turn today when prosecutor Deborah Russell tried to challenge Joe Senser’s claim that his wife never lied to him.

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Do you think you could sit on the Senser jury?

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The Minnesota Court of Appeals gives judges more authority to order expungement of criminal records.

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Unless you’ve been hauled off to jail lately, you may be unaware that your chance of being strip searched has increased in recent years.

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In this afternoon’s arguments it appeared the majority of the nine justices do not favor striking down the part of the law that expands Medicaid.

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It’s hard to believe it’s been nine years since four people met their end at the front of a Burlington Northern train that wiped out their car at the railroad crossing on Ferry Street in Anoka. The guard gate never came down, the lights never illuminated and the four young people never had a chance.

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