BRIEFLY

Posts from Joshua Newville, a Minnesota employment lawyer, civil rights attorney, and mediator.

Oct 23, 2014

Rule 68 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure contains an interesting and nuanced option for civil defendants to settle a case. Rule 68...

Oct 6, 2014

Today, the United States Supreme Court denied to review opinions issued by three appellate courts that declared bans on same-sex marriage...

Sep 30, 2014

The False Claims Act exists to incentivize whistleblowing in areas such as Medicare fraud. Qui tam whistleblowers (known as “relators”)...

Aug 28, 2014

In an alarming video posted to YouTube this week, two St. Paul police officers violently arrested and tazed a black man who was simply...

Jul 23, 2014

Joshua Newville filed a motion for summary judgment Tuesday in the historic lawsuit challenging North Dakota’s ban on same-sex marriage....