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isPermaLink="false">http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/?p=5185</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gary and Sally Peterson of Blaine borrowed $840,000.00 in December, 2006 secured by a mortgage on their home and, like so many others nationwide, apparently were unable to keep up with their monthly mortgage payments. Within three years, they sought &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/?p=5180</guid> <description><![CDATA[Minnesota Litigator has previously covered Barry Slade &#38; Wheaton LLC&#8217;s constitutional assault on Minnesota&#8217;s garnishment statute at some length. The quick overview: can it be that, under Minnesota law, a creditor can freeze money in a person&#8217;s joint banking account &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/?p=3417</guid> <description><![CDATA[Update #3 (February 1, 2012): Think twice or three times before flaming your MD on a &#8220;rate-your-doctor&#8221; website (or flaming anyone on any website (or social media)).   If you say that the MD seemed like &#8220;a real tool,&#8221; this would &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/?p=4730</guid> <description><![CDATA[Update (2/1/2012):  The prospect of all fifty states, each having its own standards on proper pig slaughter technique, is unappetizing to meat producers, to the U.S. Congress (which has enacted federal slaughterhouse legislation), and to the justices of the Supreme &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/?p=5171</guid> <description><![CDATA[In civil litigation, well over 90% of cases settle so lawyers&#8217; writing jury instructions is an infrequent and exceptional part of almost every civil litigator&#8217;s work-life. (Non-litigators and lay people may be surprised to hear that trial lawyers, rather than &#8230; <a
href="http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/2012/01/31/good-good-lesson-jury-instructions/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/?p=2270</guid> <description><![CDATA[Update #2 (January 31, 2012):  Minnesota Litigator jumped the gun with the statement that the Maslon law firm had &#8220;escaped&#8221; a malpractice claim.  Not just yet.  Plaintiffs&#8217; counsel agreed to dismiss the still viable claims after U.S. District Court Judge &#8230; <a
href="http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/2012/01/31/extraterrestrial-legal-advice-personal-jurisdiction/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/?p=5167</guid> <description><![CDATA[I recently told the students in my Employment Discrimination class that we don’t see many claims brought under Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.  As if to prove me a liar, the Eighth Circuit just this week &#8230; <a
href="http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/2012/01/30/section-1981-reports-demise-greatly-exagerated/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/?p=5154</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oral promises are, by their nature, fleeting and unreliable.  This is apparently even more true when the promise is about manure. In Maday v. Grathwohl, the Minnesota Court of Appeals held that a written &#8220;Manure Easement&#8221; superseded a prior oral promise to &#8230; <a
href="http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/2012/01/27/oral-agreement-manure-unenforceable-neighboring-farmer-sol/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/?p=5146</guid> <description><![CDATA[Less than two years ago, the United States Supreme Court limited the availability of arbitrations in class action cases when it decided that a party may not be compelled under the Federal Arbitration Act to submit to class arbitration unless &#8230; <a
href="http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/2012/01/26/arbitrate-collective-action/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.minnesota-litigator.com/?p=5114</guid> <description><![CDATA[There are websites dedicated to a single legal matter (like the one here).  Minnesota Litigator, while indisputably a &#8220;niche&#8221; blog, is not quite so narrow as that. On the other hand, there is a single case that seems to draw &#8230; <a
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