The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a transgender high school student can bring an equal protection claim under the state constitution after his school denied him access to the boys’ locker room.
Read moreThe Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that state courts do not have jurisdiction over a California doctor accused by Prince’s family of failing to provide proper medical care by not recommending addiction treatment for the late pop star.
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A U.S. House election in Minnesota will be delayed until February following the unexpected death of a third-party candidate, setting up a special election brought by a unique state law.
Read moreTwo Minnesota Republicans filed a legal challenge Tuesday to block the state’s elections chief from implementing a consent decree to allow general election ballots to be counted if they’re postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after.
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Presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump both made visits to Minnesota on Friday, courting votes in the battleground state as the first voters went to the polls.
Read moreA group of sex offenders are unlikely to prove that an ordinance that prohibits them from residing near schools, childcare centers, places of worship and parks is unconstitutional, a federal court in Minnesota ruled, denying their request for a preliminary injunction.
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A poll released Wednesday shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden maintaining his narrow edge over President Donald Trump in Wisconsin and holding a wider lead over the Republican incumbent in Minnesota.
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Pointing to what he called a “sloppy” meeting with a medical examiner, a Minnesota judge on Friday said four members of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office cannot prosecute the case against Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers over the death of George Floyd.
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Minnesota clean water activists say they plan to appeal a state court decision finding that state regulators’ concealment of negotiations to delay EPA input in the permitting process for a contentious mining project did not prejudice them.
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Attorneys representing the two major political parties faced off in the Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday in a dispute over two state laws limiting Minnesotans’ ability to help others vote.
Read moreA federal court in Minnesota dismissed a group of tobacco companies’ suit against the city of Edina relating to a recently adopted ordinance banning the sale of flavored tobacco products.
Read moreWeighing privacy against free speech, the Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in the state’s effort to restore an overturned revenge porn statute.
Read moreAttorneys for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd, entered a motion to dismiss late Friday in Hennepin County District Court, claiming that the state lacked evidence to support the charges.
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The Minneapolis City Council emerged from two nights of curfews to delay approval of a lease for a temporary site for the city’s Third Precinct police station, after its former location was burned down during protests following the death of George Floyd.
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One of the four former Minneapolis police officers charged for the death of George Floyd has filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him and asked that his case be heard outside of the Twin Cities metro.
Read moreA federal court in Minnesota ruled that Anoka County’s unwritten policy that requires jail employees to contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement any time a foreign-born individual is brought to the jail — “irrespective of citizenship or immigration status” — violates the 14th Amendment right to equal protection.
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An attorney for one of the three officers accused of aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd filed court papers attacking Floyd for drug use and saying that his client “did nothing wrong.”
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U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar was holding a comfortable lead over challenger Antone Melton-Meaux in the primary race for Minnesota’s Democratic 5th Congressional District Tuesday night.
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Freshly spritzed with hand sanitizer, Minnesota voters headed to socially distanced polls Tuesday morning to vote in the state’s primary election, featuring several hotly contested races.
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Body-camera footage of George Floyd’s apprehension, arrest and death was made public Monday after the judge overseeing criminal cases against four former police officers ordered it to be released late Friday.
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