Minnesota Legal Overview: Minneapolis-St. Paul The Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area is defined by the Census Bureau as covering 11 counties in Minnesota and two more in Wisconsin. Officially, it is known as the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI MSA. This MSA is in turn part of the larger Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud CSA or combined statistical area, which adds two more Minnesota counties to the count. The 11 counties in the MSA are served by district courts in four different judicial districts. The major Minnesota cities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area are listed below.
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1. The Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area includes district courts under the first, second, fourth and tenth judicial districts. The Second District Court serving Ramsey County is located in St. Paul, with an additional suburban courthouse in the city of Maplewood. The Fourth District Court serving Hennepin County has two locations in downtown. Minneapolis and three more in the suburbs. The Carver, Dakota and Scott counties are served by the First District Court. Anoka, Chicago, Isanti, Sherburne, Washington and Wright counties are served by the Tenth District Court.
Trending Legal Topics: Appeals against trial court verdicts handed down by any of these district courts in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area must be filed with the Minnesota Court of Appeals, which is also located in St. Paul. The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the state. Federal cases in these 11 counties must be filed with the St. Paul Division of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Federal appeals in Minnesota will be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. |