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Bibliography of the Writings of Professor William E. Lass.

Thomas L. Olson, "Law on the Edge: The Credit River Case and the Fixations of Jerome Daly, 1960-1990."

Joel Michael, "How the Senate Lost its Stagger: The Story of an Attorney General's Opinion That Changed the Legislature."

Jason Taylor Fitzgerald: "The Writ of Quo Warranto in Minnesota

Thomas L. Olson: "Blockbusters: Minnesota Movie Men Slug it out with Studio Moguls, 1938-1948."

Penny A. Petersen: "Isaac Atwater." (2014).

Luther Granquist: Book Review of Roberta Walburn, "Miles Lord: The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice" (2017).

James M. Goodhue: "Struck A Lead: An Historical Tale of the Upper Lead Region." (1843-1844).

Robert M. Smith: Book Review of Neil S. Boardman, "The Wine of Violence" (1964).

Judge Michael A. Wolff: Book Review of Roberta Walburn, "Miles Lord: The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice" (2017).

Viewing Ferdinand Barta (1857-1928).

Ferdinand Barta (1857-1928).

Ferdinand Barta practiced law and politics in St. Paul for forty-five years. A stalwart Republican, he was elected to the state House of Representatives in 1894 and 1896, but was defeated in a bid for the state Senate in 1898. He died in 1928 at age seventy.

He was also a hero. On the afternoon of Wednesday, November 15, 1899, he saved the life of Justice of the Peace Joseph Smith by subduing a disgruntled litigant who had killed one man already and was aiming his shotgun at the Justice. The drama was described in an article in St. Paul Globe the next day.

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