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Updated: 5/7/08
Next update: 5/14/08

 

Minnesota Legal News

  • During Minnesota visit, former justice O'Connor urges change in judicial elections
  • Judge James Swenson elected chief judge in Hennepin County
  • MinnPost: Council post gives Judge Pam Alexander new platform to push criminal justice equity

Judges & Lawyers

  • NY Times examines attorney-client privilege: "When law prevents righting a wrong" (Legal Profession)
  • Growing trend of online pretrial publicity draws fire, National Law Journal reports (Legal Profession)
  • Federal agents raid office and home of U.S. Special Counsel (Lawyers)
  • San Diego federal courthouse hit by pipe bomb (Courts & Juries)
  • Deal struck on Pakistan judges: ruling coalition will reinstate chief justice, 60 others (Judges)
  • He's back: D.C. missing pants judge sues city over job loss (Judges)
  • Law professor discovers constitutional flaw in appointment of judges who decide patent disputes (Judicial Selection)
  • Federal court upholds NC's public financing of judicial campaigns (Judicial Selection)

News

  • Washington Post obituary of Mildred Jeter Loving: Quiet Virginia wife ended interracial marriage ban (News Roundup)
  • Christian Science Monitor: States divided on approach to polygamous sect: Law officers in Arizona and Utah say their method of confronting the FLDS must differ from that of Texas (News Roundup)
  • Lawyers for Guantánamo inmates accuse U.S. of eavesdropping (War & the Law)
  • Lawyers question proposed rules governing foreign investment in U.S.(Business & Technology)
  • Hail the chief at Russell Anderson's retirement dinner May 15—reservation deadline Friday
  • Nominate a colleague for MSBA's Professional Excellence Award
  • One week left for early-bird Convention registration
  • Your help is needed in reviewing paralegal curriculum
  • Applications sought for Client Security Board and State Board of Continuing Legal Education
  • Read the latest from the Capitol in MSBA Legislative Ledger
  • Now Available! The MSBA :: mndocs document automation system
  • Listing of upcoming Section CLE programs: offering our members current, concise and collegial CLE credits for $20 (or less) a credit.

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