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A jury determined Chadwick Banken, a real estate broker, violated Minnesota’s Human Rights Act, targeting Muslim homebuyers. Legal Aid Attorney Mary Kaczorek represents homeowners in the same situation and says it’s frustrating to see how families were misled and lost both their homes and significant financial investments.
[Update: Facility will reopen] Director Eren Sutherland of the Minnesota Disability Law Center explains what it means when one of
WCCO-TV revisited clients represented by Melissa Hortman back in 1997. As noted in the story, Hortman began her legal career at a “local legal aid office.” That office is Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid.
The podcast North Star Stories spoke with Attorney Jessica Webster about the impact of seclusion — the practice of isolating children with disabilities away from their classmates during the school day. Currently banned, the practice is being reconsidered under a proposed law permitting seclusion for students in grades K-3 through 2036.
Fines and threats of foreclosure by homeowner associations are expected to be curbed thanks to the newly passed “HOA Bill of Rights.” Approved with bipartisan support, this legislation provides consumer protections championed by Legal Aid Attorneys Ron Elwood and Colleen Daly.
Client Jose Yugar-Cruz will be deported to the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a federal decision, despite a 2025 ruling preventing his deportation. Attorney Alison Griffith’s team asked that ICE consider sending him to a Spanish-speaking country closer to home instead of the DRC, but they refused.
Breaking the Ice: ‘Winning for thousands’ drives policy advocateby Todd Nelson For Jessica Webster, staff attorney with the Legal Services Advocacy
In response to the Eighth Circuit decision to uphold Trump administration policy to deny bond to undocumented immigrants, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid offered the Star Tribune this take: “We hope that Minnesota judges will follow the lead of Texas judges who are granting bond hearings, despite a similar Fifth Circuit Court opinion, because that’s the due process right people have.”
In this episode of the amplifiED podcast, hosts Margaret Sullivan and Josh Crosson sit down with Jessica Heiser, attorney at the Minnesota Disability Law Center, to talk about what seclusion — the use of solitary confinement on children — actually looks like for Minnesota students.
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