From Pioneer Press:
"Keith Mueller is pushing to change a state law to protect someone from being sued for calling the cops.
The law’s current language protecting public participation is too vague and needs to include reporting apparent unlawful conduct to police, he argues.
Mueller’s effort stems from his experience: He was sued by a man whose acts were the subject of a report to police.
Read MoreThe Associated Press settled a lawsuit with an NBA referee who felt he was defamed by a tweet from one of their writers, paying $20,000 in damages and removing the tweet from the account.
Read MoreA controversial charter school in Inver Grove Heights accused of promoting religion with taxpayer money countersued the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Read MoreA local landowner was sued by the Middle Snake Tamarac Rivers Watershed District, a local government entity, for expressing an opinion critical of the District's flood control plans.
Read MoreA professor at Bemidji State University wrote a story saying some unflattering things about a local journalist, who didn’t take kindly to the allegations and brought a lawsuit alleging defamation and related torts against a number of defendants, including seeking $50 billion from Google.
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