Old tradition of public access returns to Minnesota court

In the fall of 2004, on the 12th floor of the government building in Minneapolis, a court administrator brought a reporter into her office and, during a conversation, said words to the effect, “We support the press here.”

She then took the reporter for Courthouse News across the hall and into a docketing room where new civil pleadings were piled in a stack on a small table that stood in a walkway between sectioned-off workspaces.

The stack was from that day and the new cases had not yet been assigned case numbers.

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