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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP | USA | 30 Jun 2020
Watch Your Stipulation! Award Confirmed Despite Arbitrator Exceeding Contractual Scope of Authority
Once parties agree to arbitrate, courts generally defer to the arbitrator’s judgment regarding resolution of a dispute. The prevailing approach in…
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP | USA | 26 Jun 2020
Notice Your Lien or Kiss it Goodbye
Like many states, Minnesota requires subcontractors and suppliers to send pre-lien notices to owners to perfect mechanic’s lien rights. Failure to…
Thompson Hine LLP | USA | 2 Aug 2019
Litigation-funding agreement “champertous” and unenforceable, MN appeals court rules
Third-party litigation funding is a growing and, some say, controversial industry. We’ve written before about whether such arrangements are permitted…
Littler Mendelson PC | USA | 6 May 2019
The Battle over the Minneapolis Sick and Safe Time Ordinance Continues: Court Holds the Law Applies to Employers Outside City Limits
On April 29, 2019, the Minnesota Court of Appeals overturned a state district court ruling and found that the Minneapolis Sick and Safe Time…
Jackson Lewis PC | USA | 8 Mar 2019
Minnesota Appeals Court Upholds Minneapolis Minimum Wage Ordinance
The Court of Appeals of Minnesota, the State’s intermediate appellate court, has upheld a minimum…
Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP | USA | 6 Mar 2019
Disgruntled Beneficiary's Strident Claims Rejected
In an unpublished Opinion rendered in late 2018 by the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, the Court rejected in their entirety the claims asserted by a…
Fredrikson & Byron PA | USA | 10 Oct 2018
Squandered Claim? Creditor’s “Veil Piercing” Cause of Action Held to Be Receivership Property - Even After the Receivership Ended
In a recent decision, the Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed a receiver’s power to pursue a creditor’s “veil piercing” claims against insiders of the…
Barnes & Thornburg LLP | USA | 25 May 2018
Minnesota Court of Appeals Confirms Agent Comments Can Bind Insurer
In January 2017, a jury awarded Prospect Foundry $53,300 on a counterclaim for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. At the…
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP | USA | 14 May 2018
Minnesota Court of Appeals Extends Fair Report Privilege to Stories that Accurately Summarize Police Press Conferences and Press Releases
The Minnesota Court of Appeals recently ruled that the “fair-report privilege” protects the media against defamation claims for news reports that…
Stinson LLP | USA | 14 Apr 2018
Spring State Court Smorgasbord: Three Decisions Hostile To Arbitration
The focus today is recent state appellate court decisions on arbitration. Because there are an awful lot of them, I am going to divide them roughly…
