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By Nancy Rapoport

Regina Logsdon forwarded me some great fodder for this month’s ethics column. Take a gander at the latest in a series of newspaper articles: http://www.twincities.com/ci_19542037?IADID=Search-www.twincities.com-www.twincities.com

I don’t mean to call this one lawyer out for her intemperate brief—my guess is that she regrets filing it—but to point to the particular part of the story that claimed that she filed the brief with the . . .

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