On August 11, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) renewed its Geographic Targeting Order (“GTO”) Imposing Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements on Certain Financial Institutions in Minnesota. The GTO requires financial institutions located in Hennepin
On August 26, 2026, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Crystal S. Carey issued Memorandum GC 26-04, “Further Guidance Regarding General Counsel Priorities,” identifying the Board precedents she has already asked, or intends to ask, the Board to reconsider. For
In a significant decision for estate litigators, fiduciaries and beneficiaries, the Minnesota Court of Appeals recently reaffirmed the strong public policy favoring finality in probate proceedings. In In re Estate of Clarence Vatthauer, the court held that a district
Over the last year or so, two points of federal cannabis reform have been in the news: (1) shifts in Congressional policy around the federal treatment of hemp (see Collin’s earlier post here for more) and (2) the Executive Branch
Dear Colleagues:
Minnesota has enacted a significant overhaul of its firearm-surrender procedures. The new legislation, contained in Chapter 75, is long and complex—26 pages and more than 11,500 words—and is designed to establish a uniform statewide procedure for the surrender,
A 58 year old Minnesota man died from complications he suffered from a spinal injury aboard Princess Cruises’ Sun Princess. The man, Stephen “Steve” Junker, was celebrating his son’s wedding when the tragedy occurred.
On August 16, Junker suffered a
Benjamin Soskis (co-editor HistPhil) haas posted an essay titled Prudential Pluralism, Historical Perspective, and the Defense of Civil Society. Here are the opening paragraphs:
If this is a time of peril for U.S. civil society, it is also a
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Marler Clark has been suing the companies that poison people since 1993 — since a nine-year-old girl named Brianne Kiner nearly died from a hamburger. Sixteen years later it
There is an open multistate hepatitis A outbreak in this country linked to imported frozen clams, and unless you read outbreak pages for a living you have almost certainly never heard of it. As of September 3, 2026, CDC counts
