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Briggs and Morgan

Offices

  1. USA

    1. Minneapolis MN

      2200 IDS Centre, South 8th Street, Minneapolis MN 55402, USA T 1 612 977 8400 F 1 612 334 8650
  1. EEOC’s strategic enforcement plan: forewarned is forearmed!

    USA - June 7 2013

    An employer is more likely to deal with a discrimination claim originating from the EEOC than ever encounter a private civil action alleging

  2. Federal Circuit is “irretrievably fractured” over system claims: “CLS Bank v. Alice Corp.”

    USA - June 10 2013

    In CLS Bank Int'l v. Alice Corp. PTY. LTD (2013 WL 1920941 (C.A.Fed.(Dist.Col))), the Federal Circuit has arguably provided the first substantive

  3. CLS Bank v. Alice Corp.: a new hermeneutic of suspicion

    USA - June 12 2013

    CLS Bank Int'l v. Alice Corp.PTY, (2013 WL 1020941 (C.A.Fed.)(Dist.Col))), a per curia opinion of the Federal Circuit, conflates method, system, and

  4. Can a hostile environment claim arise from conduct between employees outside the workplace?

    USA - June 10 2013

    Usually not - the recent Gillis v. Wal-Mart case out of Oregon provides a vivid example. In Gillis, an employee went to see a co-worker's private gun

  5. Estate planning after the Omnibus Tax Act of 2013 (House File 677)

    USA - May 29 2013

    May 29, 2013 Governor Dayton signed the 2013 Omnibus Tax Act into law on May 23, 2013. With the passage of the new law, Minnesota residents and

  1. Discrimination against independent contractors

    USA - June 17 2013

    When a worker in Minnesota experiences sexual harassment or is let go because of their race or other protected class status, generally that person

  2. Vermont, White House aim at so-called patent trolls

    USA - June 13 2013

    Vermont's Attorney General has sued a patent holding companyMPHJ Technology Investments, LLCfor violation of the state's consumer fraud

  3. Can employers require assignment of employee inventions under Minnesota law?

    USA - June 12 2013

    Yes - employers can require assignment of employee inventions under Minnesota law, but there are important statutory limitations on that right that

  4. CLS Bank v. Alice Corp.: a new hermeneutic of suspicion

    USA - June 12 2013

    CLS Bank Int'l v. Alice Corp.PTY, (2013 WL 1020941 (C.A.Fed.)(Dist.Col))), a per curia opinion of the Federal Circuit, conflates method, system, and

  5. Can a hostile environment claim arise from conduct between employees outside the workplace?

    USA - June 10 2013

    Usually not - the recent Gillis v. Wal-Mart case out of Oregon provides a vivid example. In Gillis, an employee went to see a co-worker's private gun