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Allie Howell and Renee Carlson discuss updates in the case regarding transgender powerlifter, JayCee Cooper, who is suing USA Powerlifting over rules that do not allow biological males to participate in the women's division.

James Dickey with the Upper Midwest Law Center is joined by Ryan Wilson to discuss significant legal battles from 2024 relating to many unconstitutional laws passed by the DFL "trifecta" in Minnesota during the 2023 and 2024 legislative sessions.

An update on Dr. Scott Jensen's lawsuit against the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice. Subscribe: https://umlc.buzzsprout.com/ Upper Midwest Law Center: https://www.umlc.org/donate/

The current NLRB has strayed from the NLRA's original spirit and purpose by embracing an exclusively pro-union agenda hostile to employees' rights and antagonistic to employers.

While the pandemic may seem old news for some people, the courts are just finally now getting around to deciding essential issues related to our personal liberties and constitutional rights.

The best way to find out exactly what happened is to view the police body-camera footage from April 22. Luckily, Minnesota statutes have a provision for situations like this. Upper Midwest Law Center: https://www.umlc.org/donate/

On March 21, 2024, the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the federal District of Minnesota’s dismissal of a discrimination and retaliation case where the Upper Midwest Law Center’s client, Aaron Norgren, had objected to the Minnesota Department of Human Services’ mandatory critical-race-theory and gender-nonbinary “trainings” and was later refused the chance to interview for a promotion.

On the latest episode of Minnesota Law Report, attorney Allie Howell discusses a current UMLC case in which Lakeville Area Schools promoted the political views of some of its community but refused to allow alternative messages.

On the latest episode of Minnesota Law Report, Upper Midwest Law Center senior counsel James Dickey and True North Legal president Renee Carlson discussed the current attacks on religious liberty in the state of Minnesota.

Snell v. Walz challenges whether Gov. Tim Walz had the authority to issue a peacetime emergency related to COVID-19.

Last year, the Minnesota Department of Education proposed radical amendments to the social studies standards. Unlike in previous years, the new standards are not grade-level specific, but ask kindergarteners to meet the same standards as high school seniors

The trifecta has been on an epic losing streak. Upper Midwest Law Center: https://www.umlc.org/ Alpha News: https://alphanews.org/ Support Alpha News : https://alphanews.revv.co/donate-today

Many eyes have been directed at chaos around the world and failed attempts to remove Donald Trump from presidential ballots, but one local item has also featured in the news: the Minneapolis City Council’s utter failure to fund the Minneapolis police force.

Allie Howell of the Upper Midwest Law Center discusses the latest development in a Minnesota lawsuit seeking to keep former President Donald J. Trump off the ballot.

State law and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system forces students to pay fees tacked onto their college credits to bankroll a far-left organization that claims to speak on behalf of all students across the state of Minnesota.

James Dickey discusses the recent petition filed in the Minnesota Supreme Court seeking to keep former President Donald Trump off of Minnesota’s 2024 primary and general election ballots, and also UMLC’s new case against the “Don’t Say Felon” speech code created by the legislature to shut down certain political speech in the days leading up to Minnesota elections.

In this episode of Minnesota Law Weekly, James Dickey of the Upper Midwest Law Center discusses a common theme in some of their cases: the government can’t use its investigatory power to punish citizens for speaking on politics.

In this episode, President of Upper Midwest Law Center, Doug Seaton, and President of Take Charge Minnesota, Kendall Qualls, discuss the legal definitions of equality and equity.

James Dickey discusses a new Minnesota law that restores the right for felons to vote. In this episode, James says the legislature failed to follow all steps and constraints set by the Constitution.