Courts

An Alabama school system is taking the first step to sue 3M Co. over a closed landfill that's on school system property. News outlets report that Decatur's school system has filed notice saying it plans to sue over industrial toxins leaking from the one-time landfill that's beneath the former Brookhaven Middle School.
The three-judge panel ruled the law is written too broadly and violates the First Amendment. A chief author of the law says he wants the Minnesota Supreme Court to review the decision.
Twenty-two-year-old Colten Treu pleaded no contest Monday to four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle. Treu also pleaded guilty to hit-and-run involving great bodily harm. He earlier had pleaded not guilty in the November 2018 crash.
Case connected to Duluth lynchings up for review
Max Mason, 21, was convicted in 1920 of assaulting a young Duluth woman who claimed to have been assaulted by six black circus workers on June 14 of that year. The accusation led to the most infamous day in Duluth's history, when three black men were lynched by a mob of up to several thousand residents.
Supreme Court to take up dispute over subpoenas for Trump records
The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear President Trump's pleas to keep his tax, bank and financial records private, a major confrontation between the president and Congress that also could affect the 2020 presidential campaign.
Fight over filming kids outside Bloomington mosque heads to court
A Bloomington woman argues she has a First Amendment right to film activity at a public playground next to the Dar Al Farooq mosque. Supporters of a city ordinance prohibiting that filming say mosque opponents want to harass and intimidate.
Exxon wins New York climate change case
New York's Attorney General argued that the oil giant misled shareholders about the financial risks from climate change.
Court rejects Minnesota's renewal of U.S. Steel mine permit
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed a decision by state regulators to renew a wastewater permit for U.S. Steel's Minntac iron mine in northeastern Minnesota.