Courts

July court ruling clouds future for DACA recipients
A Texas federal judge’s ruling a few weeks ago has not only thrown Carlos Reyes Rojas’s future into uncertainty, but also those of all DACA recipients.
Lawsuit: State Fair must allow people to carry guns
A gun owners group and two other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Tuesday that argues the quasi-state agency that produces the Minnesota State Fair cannot prohibit people with permits from carrying firearms on the fairgrounds. 
Suit accuses mall of negligence in 2019 assault of young boy
The family of the then five-year-old boy says the Mall of America should have done more to keep track of the assailant that day.
A U.S. appeals court has ruled against a web designer who didn’t want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples and sued to challenge Colorado’s anti-discrimination law, another twist in a series of court rulings nationwide about whether businesses denying services to LGBTQ people amounts to bias or freedom of speech.
Judge says he won’t change Chauvin sentencing memo in relation to four young witnesses
The presence of minors at Floyd’s killing was one of the aggravating factors that Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill considered when he sentenced Derek Chauvin to 22.5 years last month. Cahill has declined to revise his sentencing statement to address trauma experienced by four children who witnessed George Floyd’s killing. 
Minnesota will get $50M in Purdue Pharma settlement
State Attorney General Keith Ellison said the settlement money, paid out over nine years, will be overseen by the state’s opioid epidemic response advisory council and will be used for addiction prevention, treatment and recovery.