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Henson Efron won a major victory for its client, a Minnesota-based construction contractor specializing in non-destructive excavation, in a Ramsey County District Court of Minnesota jury trial. The lawsuit stemmed from disputes between the founding owners and requested a court-ordered buyout of the opposing parties’ shares. Counterclaims were asserted against the client for breach of […]

Litigation attorneys Stuart T. Williams and Jillian Pearson were recently featured in the Verdicts and Settlements section of Minnesota Lawyer for their defense victory in October. The client was alleged to have misappropriated trade secrets, tortiously interfered with the competitor’s agreements and unfairly competed with the competitor.  The case revolved around the accusations that a former […]

Indian law attorney David Bradley Olsen is optimistic after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Portland, Oregon, dismissed the Native voting rights lawsuit, Wandering Medicine v. McCulloch, on October 30, 2013.  The Montana tribal members’ appeal was dismissed as moot because it applied to reservation polling places that had been denied for the 2012 election, […]

Henson Efron announced today a significant defense victory for its client, a provider of worldwide logistics solutions headquartered in Minnesota, in a jury trial conducted in the Dakota County District Court of Minnesota. In the lawsuit, the client was alleged to have misappropriated trade secrets of a competitor, tortiously interfered with the competitor’s agreements and […]

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is poised to decide whether Montana state and local officials violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act when they refused to establish satellite registration and absentee voting offices on the Northern Cheyenne, Crow and Ft. Belknap Indian Reservations.  In person absentee and late voter registration offices are available […]

In a Star Tribune article titled “Relative Caregivers Catch a Break,” Henson Efron attorney David Bradley Olsen is acknowledged for his work representing eight home-care agencies and nine relative caregivers in Healthstar Home Health Inc. vs. Jesson, successfully challenging the legislature’s effort to cut a caregiver’s personal care assistant wages if the caregiver is related […]