The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on April 6, 2016, that a parishioner could not sue her former church and pastors for defamation in statements made within church disciplinary proceedings to excommunicate the parishioner from the church.[1] The explosive mix of high-profile issues present in the case obscures a smaller technical point which may prove crucial in...Read More

Insider trading – in rough terms, using a company’s confidential information to make money trading its stock – is a well-known white-collar crime. In some instances, insider trading is pretty obvious. The Department of Justice alleges a doctor running a clinical trial of a drug for a company sold his stock in that company after...Read More

You can now make a federal case out of a lost trade secret. The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, which became law on May 11, 2016, allows businesses and individuals to bring civil lawsuits in federal court for misappropriation of their trade secrets. Previously, an action based on trade secrets had to be based...Read More

In most elections, the winners are chosen by majority or plurality vote. Minority shareholders in Minnesota corporations should know their rights to make an exception to this rule.Read More