Legal Opinion
Niemi v. Girl Scouts of Minnesota & Wisconsin Lakes & Pines
Court of Appeals of Minnesota
Decided July 14, 2009No. A08-1791PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JOHNSON, Judge.
Joseph J. Roby, Jr., is an attorney in private practice in the city of Duluth. Between 1979 and 1983, he represented Elizabeth Niemi in an employment-discrimination lawsuit she brought against her employer. In 2008, Roby was retained by the Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin Lakes and Pines (hereinafter the Girl Scouts) to defend the organization against an employment-discrimination lawsuit brought by Niemi. The district court granted Niemi’s motion to disqualify Roby and his law firm from representing the Girl Scouts in this lawsuit. We conclude that…
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