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5 days 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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6 days 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 week 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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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
ST. PAUL (CN) — A lawsuit filed by the state of Minnesota against President Donald Trump seeks to bar the enforcement of two executive orders he issued that seek to restrict the rights of transgender students to participate in school sports and deny civil rights to transgender people. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed the suit Tuesday against Trump, the Department of Justice and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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1 month ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
LAKEVILLE, Minn. (CN) — U.S. Representative Angie Craig had a message for voters Monday evening while speaking at a local Minnesota high school: Republicans need to step up and help Democrats to stop funding cuts to large swaths of the United States' federal government. Craig hosted a town hall at Lakeville South High School, about 20 minutes south of Minneapolis, to hear residents' concerns about the Trump administration.
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1 month ago | 
courthousenews.com | Mark Wasson
The former state senator will be released to a halfway house and required to use GPS monitoring. ST. PAUL (CN) — A former Minnesota state senator charged with enticing a minor into prostitution will be released from jail after a federal judge found the prosecutor’s arguments to keep him locked up left too many unanswered questions.
