ST. PAUL, Minn. (Legal Newsline) – Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is being pushed for information on the two assistants he hired that are paid not by taxpayers but by climate change activist Michael Bloomberg.
MINNEAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - Although the transcripts of bodycam footage of George Floyd’s death during an arrest by Minneapolis police officers were released last week, the videos are still under wraps - a curious development to one Fourth Amendment expert.
MINNEAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has so far refused to release bodycam footage of the arrest of George Floyd as some wonder about the build-up to a Minneapolis police officer fatally restraining the man by forcing his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Some states will be even more active in financial consumer protection enforcement now that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new director has made it clear the bureau will stay out of the way, an expert on state attorneys general said during a recent interview.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (Legal Newsline) – Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson announced that her office filed a lawsuit against Associated Community Services Inc. and one of its affiliates after allegations of sending false “pledge reminders” to donors and making other deceptive statements in an effort to solicit donations for a Michigan veterans charity.
Savers retail and its relationship to local charities in Minnesota is being questioned after a report of Compliance found their may be some issues with their financial relationship, according to an announcement of the compliance report by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson.
Attorney General Lori Swanson sued a Minnesota process service company and one of its representatives last week for allegedly engaging in “sewer service” by falsely claiming it had notified defendants of pending debt collection lawsuits.