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3 days ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
Native American tribes are squaring off against a nearby card club's electronic tables that they claim are unfairly taking customers away from the Sioux Community. ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — The Minnesota Supreme Court is tasked with deciding whether off-reservation electronic gambling tables violate the state’s deal with Native American tribes that gives them exclusive rights to video games of chance.
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2 weeks ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
MINNEAPOLIS (CN) — The Department of Justice moved on Wednesday to cancel consent decrees made with Minneapolis and Louisville after a series of police killings and abuses set off worldwide protests in the summer of 2020. The DOJ and Minneapolis asked a judge in January, near the end of President Joe Biden's term, to approve an agreement after the government found the Minneapolis Police Department routinely discriminated against nonwhite people.
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3 weeks ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
A rise in chronic wasting disease among Minnesota's deer population led to tighter regulations on deer farmers, which critics say amount to a ban on the practice. ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — Deer farmers in Minnesota asked an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals panel to stop a state law that they say will ban the practice statewide after a generation, during oral arguments Thursday.
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4 weeks ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
A special election will be held next week to replace the former mayor's controversial appointment to Orono City Council. ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld a lower court decision dismissing an election-related lawsuit brought against the city of Orono by its former mayor. That mayor, Dennis Walsh, argues Orono City Council improperly called a special election for a seat he already filled.
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4 weeks ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
(CN) — Whether or not a federal district court has jurisdiction over a lawsuit against the federal government for canceling National Institutes of Health grants was at the top of a judge's to-do list during a hearing in the District Court of Massachusetts Thursday.
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1 month ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — The Minnesota Supreme Court will decide if a city council is allowed to call a special election after the outgoing mayor controversially appointed a new councilmember to fill a vacant seat. The question stems from a lawsuit by former Mayor Dennis Walsh against Orono, the city he once led. Walsh argues that the city council improperly called a special election for a seat he already filled.
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1 month ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
A lower court determined that the woman derived sexual pleasure from exposing her breasts, but nothing in the record reflects that, Minnesota's Supreme Court says. ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — A Minnesota woman will have her indecent exposure conviction overturned after the state’s Supreme Court said Wednesday that her actions in the case do not constitute a sexual act.
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1 month ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
In total, the Department of Education has threatened to withhold $13.8 billion from public schools if they do not cut out anti-racist policies and classes, an amount states are likely unable to replace. BOSTON — A coalition of 20 state attorneys general has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education over a threat to withhold federal funding for schools that implement anti-racist programs.
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1 month ago | 
editorandpublisher.com | Mark Wasson
Posted Thursday, April 24, 2025 11:16 am The social media company X Corp., formerly Twitter, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the Federal District of Minnesota against Attorney General Keith Ellison, alleging a state statute intended to take on election misinformation is unconstitutional. The statute, passed by the state’s legislature in 2023, prohibits the dissemination of election-related content that is a deepfake. X Corp., which is owned by Tesla CEO and government bureaucrat Elon Musk, seeks...
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1 month ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
The law makes it a crime to disseminate deepfakes within 90 days before a political party's nominating convention, after the start of absentee voting, or any election. ST. PAUL (CN) — The social media company X Corp., formerly Twitter, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the Federal District of Minnesota against Attorney General Keith Ellison, alleging a state statute intended to take on election misinformation is unconstitutional.
