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Minnesota's new lieutenant governor has formally responded to a lawsuit which argues that it's unconstitutional for her to also hold her seat in the state Senate.

St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - The legal fight over funding the Minnesota legislature will continue.

St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - Republican legislative leaders today filed a lawsuit challenging Governor Mark Dayton’s use of line item vetoes to remove operational funds for the legislature from the next state budget.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Legislature is hiring a private law firm to challenge Gov. Mark Dayton's veto of its budget.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for the more than 700 residents of Minnesota's sex offender treatment program are taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Lawyers for over 700 people committed indefinitely to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program are asking the full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a three-judge panel's ruling that the program is constitutional.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota appeals court has ruled a state law created to prevent predators from luring children into sexual encounters through social media is unconstitutional.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has stayed a federal judge's order requiring changes to Minnesota's sex offender program.

St. Paul, MN (Learfield Wire Services) - Republican lawmakers are joining Governor Mark Dayton in challenging a federal judge’s ruling that the state’s Sex Offender Treatment Program is unconstitutional.

St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a Minnesota law that makes it a crime for a drunk driving suspect to refuse a blood test is unconstitutional.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — State attorneys defending the Minnesota sex offender confinement program are urging a judge to exercise restraint when ordering fixes to a system he ruled is unconstitutional.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton says fixing the state's program for confining sex offenders may be costly.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has denied a media request to open up a private meeting about the future of Minnesota's civil commitment program for sex offenders.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Minnesota's sex offender treatment program is unconstitutional, but has deferred any immediate action to await further proceedings on a remedy.