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HCLL Alert
July
2003
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| Judge Greenberg Resigns From Law Library Board Of Trustees |
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Judge Greenberg accepts
a library coffee mug from fellow Board member Sonja Dunnwald Peterson,
Esq., at the annual Board meeting. | After twelve years of service on the Law Library Board of Trustees -- including six as President -- Judge Myron Greenberg resigned at the end of June after accepting a one-year appointment as a visiting judge in Bosnia.
In Bosnia, Judge Greenberg will join other judges from Minnesota and around the country in assisting in the rebuilding of that nation's justice system.
While he will be an outstanding addition to this State Department program, Judge Greenberg will be greatly missed as a guiding force on the Board of Trustees.
Both the staff and his fellow Board members sincerely thank him for his many years of conscientious service.
Chief Judge Kevin Burke has appointed Judge John Sommerville as Judge Greenberg’s replacement on the Board.
Other Board members are Judge Burke, Judge Patricia Belois, County Commissioner Linda Koblick, Timothy O’Brien, Esq., Sonja Dunnwald Peterson, Esq., and Jodeen Kozlak, Esq.
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| Featured Web Sites |
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 | Minnesota recently passed new handgun legislation that makes it easier to obtain a permit to carry a handgun, and that makes new rules for those who want to bar handguns from their property.
Now that Minnesota’s new Conceal and Carry law has been on the books for a couple of months, there are some web sites that try to answer some common questions:
View the text of the
Minnesota Citizens’ Personal Protection Act (2003 Session Laws, Chapter 28).
Scroll down to Article 2.
The Minnesota House of Representatives Research Department provides an
Act Summary that gives an overview of the legislation and a section-by-section summary.
The House Research Department also produced a research brief:
Pistol Permits:
Posting at Private Establishments that answers questions about prohibiting firearms in private buildings.
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has a page called
Permit to Carry a Pistol in Minnesota that contains an application form, and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department has a page called
Minnesota Conceal/Carry Handgun
Permit. These pages answer frequently asked questions about acquiring a permit, about required training, and about prohibiting firearms on premises.
Finally, the Minnesota Courts provide instructions and forms on a page called
Conceal and Carry Petition for Reconsideration –
Forms.
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| Focus
On: Practical Minnesota Resources |
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| We have just received a new edition of the
Minnesota Motor Vehicle Accident Deskbook (click
links to view catalog record and availability), one of Minnesota Continuing Legal Education’s treatises.
Its arrival is a reminder of how useful, practical, and timely these titles are.
Materials issued in conjunction with continuing education legal seminars are often an assortment of chapters of varying quality, sometimes very specialized, and only related to each other by having been prepared for a program on a common topic on a particular day.
These program materials do not have indexes. The Law Library makes their contents more accessible by indexing their tables of contents in the keyword index of our catalog, but finding a relevant chapter in many of these program materials is challenging.
But the treatises issued by the Minnesota State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education are much more substantive, designed for the practitioner, logically arranged, and issued under the editorship of a specialist in the subject field.
The new Motor Vehicle Accident Deskbook includes forms and indexes by statutes, cases, and subjects; it will be updated annually.
Other Minnesota CLE treatises are just as well organized and cover a variety of
topics. Some of the best of them are:
The Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association also publishes substantive practice titles, in addition to the program materials issued for its continuing education programs.
MTLA’s Cause of Action Manual provides elements of claims, defenses, damages, and JIGs for many common actions.
Similarly, the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association MDLA Release Deskbook discusses settlement of civil cases and collects in one volume several sample release forms.
Start your research or case with these practical Minnesota treatises.
The Law Library has circulating copies of all of them and also maintains a reference copy of each for use here.
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| New Court Fees |
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| In solving the state’s $4.3 billion budget deficit nearly all parts of the state’s budget were reduced significantly. Even funding for the state’s court system was reduced. As a consequence, many state agencies have raised fees to help make up the shortfall. A variety of court fees were increased effective July 1, 2003.
Click here for a list of current fees for the Fourth Judicial District
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