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Certification[1] is a legislatively created procedure which empowers Minnesota state courts to answer a federal court’s question of state law.[2] There are many benefits to certifying questions, including relieving federal judges from having to decide important state...

Suing the government poses unique hurdles that plaintiffs who sue private citizens do not have to overcome.[1] If sovereign immunity does not bar their claims, then they must also avoid the procedural pitfalls designed to limit their ability to seek relief in court....

            On June 2, 2022,[1] Minnesota enacted a first-of-its-kind law legalizing products containing hemp-derived cannabinoids, including tetrahydrocannabinols (“THC”).[2] While hemp derivatives (including all cannabinoids) that contain less than 0.3 percent...

If you are a small business owner, your regulatory burden is about to increase thanks to the “Corporate Transparency Act” (“CTA”).[1] Buried deep within the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, the [2] CTA requires the beneficial owners and applicants of reporting...

Experienced practitioners know that, pursuant to the plain language of Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(d)(1), depositions are ordinarily limited to seven-hours.[1] This limitation was introduced in the 2000 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, on the grounds that...

Invasion of privacy torts, like other torts in Minnesota, are subject to a strict statute of limitations that dictates when a claim can be brought.[1] When seeking relief under a claim for invasion of privacy, a claimant must immediately confront Minnesota’s vague...

Congress passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (“ANILCA”) (16 U.S.C. § 3101 et seq.; 43 U.S.C. § 1631) in 1980, converting 104 million acres of land in Alaska into national parks and wildlife preserves.[1] While some have praised ANILCA for its...

Congress designed the United States Court of Federal Claims (“COFC”) to be the prime venue for plaintiffs to sue the United States federal government for contractual and property disputes. But subsequent interpretations of its jurisdictional statute have betrayed this...

A cutting-edge legal issue prevalent across many contracts, both commercial and government, is the question of how to treat computer software: is it a service or good? This has substantial implications for the applicability of the Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”) to a...