Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Director, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
Exposure to raw sewage, overcharging for utilities and invalid leases are at the heart of a class action lawsuit filed by Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid (“Legal Aid”) and Robins Kaplan LLP against a mobile home park in Sartell, Minnesota.
Upon completion of the first phase of union negotiations, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid and the MMLA Workers Union are pleased to release this joint statement.
On the occasion of her birthday, Legal Aid Lawyer Laurie Davison is remembered this Oct. 11 by colleagues as a generous mentor and brilliant legal scholar. She pursued cases that changed law, improved lives and got the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court. In her honor, MMLA Minneapolis, at the behest of Attorney Anne Robertson, is now home to the “Laurie Davison Memorial Civil Rights Law Library.”
The “Cold Weather Rule” is the law in Minnesota requiring landlords as well as utility companies to keep the heat on in winter even if you fall behind in payments. But it’s not automatic. Fox9’s Babs Santos interviewed Supervising Attorney, Evan Gelles of MId-Minnesota Legal Aid to find out how that law works.
If your wages are being garnished, if you have current medical debt or medical debt from long ago, you need to know the law has changed. Legal Aid stood with the Minnesota Attorney General this week to announce that the 2024 Debt Fairness Act has taken effect. As of Oct. 1 major provisions for medical debt are on the books. The AG also announced an in-person opportunity for consumers to meet with attorneys from Legal Aid and community justice organizations, Saturday, Oct. 5.
In legislative testimony and in front of a packed news conference, our client Amy Lemer described how her husband harassed and chastised her. “He told me I would be homeless, penniless and childless by the time he was done with me.” Amy shared her story in support of the Debt Fairness Act.
In the matter of the Housing Authority v. Johnson, a grandma on the verge of eviction cried and the maintenance man, a witness for the plaintiffs, cussed up a storm. But only the attorneys were real. That’s how it played out at trial school!
MMLA’s Danielle Hendrickson, managing attorney of the Immigration Law Project, explains to KARE 11 how some families’ renewed hopes for citizenship are on the brink of being dashed.
As we reflect on the holiday weekend, enjoying family, the Great Minnesota Get-Together and getting the kids back to school, Legal Aid recognizes many of our neighbors are reeling from a legal decision that has the potential to tear their families apart.
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