On claim that defendant, a Minneapolis police officer, violated plaintiff's civil right by shooting him while he was working as an undercover police officer, the district court did not err in denying defendant's motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity; plaintiff presented sufficient evidence in support of his claim to allow a reasonable jury to find that the use of force was not objectively reasonable; further, there was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether a reasonable officer faced with the circumstances would have believed his conduct - firing a semi-automatic weapon at a kneeling, unarmed man - was legal.

Frye-Mack order granting motion to exclude neurologists' testimony that multiple sclerosis was aggravated by traumatic injury as a novel scientific theory.

In a declaratory judgment action, the U.S. District Court of Minnesota ruled that the client insurer had no duty to defend or indemnify its insured in an underlying case that alleg ed the insured left rags in a compressor and caused $1.7 million in property damage and business income losses. The court found that the underlying plaintiff's damages were caused by the insured's "abandoned and unused materials," thus excepting it from the client insurer's Products-Completed Operations Hazard coverage of the CGL policy.

Ordering transfer of an employee's preemptively filed Wisconsin declaratory judgment action to Minnesota and rejecting application of Wisconsin law to nonsolicitation dispute centered in Minnesota.

(Summary judgment for client on whistleblower and defamation claims.)

(Defense verdict on oppression and frustration of continued employment claims under the Minnesota Limited Liability Company Act.)

425 F.3d 526 (8th Cir. 2005): Won trial and two appeals resulting in discharge of debtor’s student loans. See Jonathan Strauss is Honored for Pro Bono Service.