Constitutional Law Laws Minnesota 
JonathanTurley
JULY 23, 2024
The opinion by Judge Duane Benton upholds a lower court in striking down a Minnesota law limiting gun permits for persons 21 years old. Minnesota has joined states like New York and Illinois in advancing weak arguments to the benefit of gun rights advocates. They are clearly “people” under the Constitution.
Constitutional Law Reporter
MAY 10, 2023
As separate sovereigns pre-existing the Constitution, Indian tribes have the same common-law immunity from suit traditionally enjoyed by sovereign governments—unless and until Congress unequivocally expresses its intent to abrogate that immunity. Please check back for updates.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
JUNE 22, 2023
Facts of the Case Geraldine Tyler owned a condominium in Hennepin County, Minnesota, that accumulated about $15,000 in unpaid real estate taxes along with interest and penalties. The post Supreme Court Holds Retaining Excess Value Violated Takings Clause appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 21, 2021
Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. Sullivan’s lawsuit was one of a number of civil actions brought under state laws that targeted Northern media covering the violence against freedom marchers. seven times. The Montgomery Public Safety commissioner, L. He was awarded $500,000 — a huge judgment for the time.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 31, 2024
The family would eventually move to Minnesota where Omar achieved the extraordinary distinction of becoming the first Somali-American legislator elected to Congress in 2017. Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1982 and her family fled the country during the Somali Civil War.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 31, 2024
There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship sponsored by the law firm of Jones Day. Despite being created by a law firm and administered by a law school, the fellowship violated federal law in excluding white and male applicants.
JonathanTurley
MAY 2, 2021
Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association and the Law Enforcement Labor Services has taken the unusual (if not unprecedented) step of asking the University of Minnesota to investigate a student for her call to make the lives of campus police a living “hell.”
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