Andy Monserud

Reporter at Courthouse News Service

MN reporter, @Courthousenews No relation to Scott (as far as I know)

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Top Minnesota court nixes sovereign immunity for police dog attacks

Jul 17, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Andy Monserud

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) —The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state specifically waived its sovereign immunity with respect to claims over police dog attacks, breathing life into a case brought by a car dealership employee who was bitten when a state trooper came to her workplace for service.
Sixth Circuit nixes trans women’s challenge to Tennessee birth certificate rules

Jul 12, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Andy Monserud

CINCINNATI (CN) — A Sixth Circuit panel upheld 2-1 a Tennessee statute barring transgender people from changing the sex listed on their birth certificates on Friday, dismissing the constitutional equal protection and due process challenges.
Minnesota recognizes new tort claim establishing liability for negligent selection of contractors

Jul 10, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Andy Monserud

A sugar beet truck driver succeeded in his effort to have Minnesota recognize a tort for negligent selection of independent contractors, but didn't live to see it. SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — Minnesota joined the slight majority of states that recognize tort claims for negligent selection of contractors Wednesday after the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of a sugar beet truck driver that was struck by a truck driver without a license contracted to transport produce for a local farm.
Water conference promotes collaboration in competitive field

Jun 28, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Andy Monserud

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — The American Geophysical Union hosted its biennial water conference, WaterSciCon, in Saint Paul’s appropriately-named RiverCentre convention center this week where hydrologic and other water-centric researchers and enthusiasts from academic, government and civilian backgrounds gathered to discuss new developments in the field.
NOAA seeks data for microplastics mapping project

Jun 25, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Andy Monserud

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — A division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is mapping microplastics in the world’s oceans, and it’s taking submissions. The tool, created by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information and plainly dubbed the NCEI Marine Microplastics product, uses data submitted from scientists around the world to aggregate and, once it’s been vetted, present it in digestible form.
In the face of bigger storms, engineers reconsider stormwater solutions

Jun 25, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Andy Monserud

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — Minnesota’s capital is playing host to a conference of hydrologists and other water scientists this week, and the importance of their work is plainly visible as flooding ravages the state. Media and bystanders were transfixed by the rapidly swelling Blue Earth river near the southern Minnesota city of Mankato on Monday as local officials warned that the Rapidan Dam was in imminent danger of breaking.
Beaver dam analogues offer stormwater solution in Pennsylvania stream

Jun 24, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Andy Monserud

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — Seeking solutions to flooding and erosion, some watershed authorities have turned to a fuzzier class of hydrological engineers: beavers. The big-toothed, plank-tailed rodents saw their peak in North America before the arrival of European settlers. Hunted aggressively for their fur, they were nearly extinct in the U.S. by 1900, but made a modest comeback in the 20th century. And as many TikTok users know, theyhate freely running water.
Ojibwe members ask court to confirm reservation still exists

Jun 19, 2024 | messagemedia.co | Andy Monserud

A Minnesota band of Ojibwe Native Americans fought to confirm the existence of their reservation at the Eighth Circuit Wednesday morning, June 12, opposed by a county government which argued that the reservation hasn’t legally existed since the Civil War era. The Mille Lacs band of Ojibwe, with approximately 4,300 members in northern Minnesota, filed suit in 2017 against the County of Mille Lacs, its sheriff and its county attorney.
Ojibwe members ask appeals court to confirm Minnesota reservation still exists

Jun 12, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Andy Monserud

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — A Minnesota band of Ojibwe Native Americans fought to confirm the existence of their reservation at the Eighth Circuit Wednesday morning, opposed by a county government which argued that the reservation hasn’t legally existed since the Civil War era. The Mille Lacs band of Ojibwe, with approximately 4,300 members in northern Minnesota, filed suit in 2017 against the County of Mille Lacs, its sheriff and its county attorney.
Minnesota ‘ghost gun’ case could lead to retroactive serial number requirement

Jun 5, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Andy Monserud

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — A Minnesota man appealing his conviction for failing to put a serial number on his homemade “ghost” gun argued Wednesday that enforcement of serial-number requirements could have far-reaching implications for thousands of guns that predate midcentury serial-number requirements, too.