The State Law Library is exited to announce a new resource: Lexis Digital Library.
Lexis Digital Library provides access to electronic copies of dozens of legal treatises, including popular Minnesota titles like Dunnell Minnesota Digest, Minnesota Family Law Practice Manual, Minnesota Civil Practice, and more. The platform also provides access to general treatises like Corbin on Contracts, Larson's Workers Compensation, and Agricultural Law.
You can access these titles directly from a computer in the Minnesota State Law Library without creating an account. If you are not on site, you can request that State Law Library staff create an account for you. You can then borrow an electronic copy of the resource you are interested in. You can check out one title at a time for a period of two weeks.
If you have questions about the resources available on Lexis Digital Library or would like to start an account, Ask a Librarian!
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It's hard to imagine that there was ever a time when Minnesota did not have an intermediate appellate court, but until 40 years ago, this was the case. Before 1983, all appeals were heard by the Minnesota Supreme Court, but as the population of Minnesota grew, this became an unsupportable arrangement. It took decades of effort to create the court, culminating in the Minnesota Court of Appeals opening its doors on November 1, 1983.
Top: Swearing in of First Court of Appeals Judges. L to R: Daniel Foley, Harriet Lansing, D.D. Wozniak, Edward Parker, Suzanne Sedgwick, Chief Justice Douglas Amdahl, Chief Judge Peter Popovich. Bottom right: Minnesota Court of Appeals Letterhead, 1993. Bottom left: Minnesota Court of Appeals campaign button, 1982, courtesy Minnesota Historical Society.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of its founding, the Court of Appeals is hosting several events.
In addition, the State Law Library is marking the occasion with a special display and virtual exhibit. Our virtual display provides history and context for the creation of the court, biographies of judges who have served on the court, videos, and digital artifacts. In addition, you can visit the State Law Library to view our physical display of resources about the court and artifacts from the campaign to create an intermediate appellate court.
Left: Current Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie S. Gildea; Right: Associate Justice and incoming Chief Justice Natalie Hudson
Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie S. Gildea announced in June that she will be retiring from the Supreme Court, effective October 1. Last month, Governor Walz announced that Associate Justice Natalie Hudson will become the next Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, effective October 2, 2023. Governor Walz also appointed Karl Procaccini to the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice.
Congratulations to Justice Hudson on her appointment as the next Chief Justice, and best wishes to Chief Justice Gildea for her retirement!
If your work involves copying and pasting information from one place to another, you’ve probably run into a situation where the text you want to copy is in all caps and you need it to be sentence case, or vice versa. Instead of manually retyping the text into the case you need, you can use MS Word to do it for you.
To use a keyboard shortcut to change between lowercase, UPPERCASE, and Capitalize Each Word, you can select the text and press SHIFT + F3 until the case you want is applied.
You may still need to make tweaks to get to proper sentence case or title case, but it can remove a lot of the frustration if you have a large block of text you need to fix.
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