Minnesota's Court System

According to the website for the “National Center for State Courts”, As of 2007, Minnesota’s court system is broken up into three different court sections.
Minnesota has one trial court, and two appellate courts. The first of the two Appellate Courts, the Supreme Court is labeled as a court of last resort of which seven justices sit en banc. The Supreme Court mainly handles mandatory jurisdiction in criminal, administrative agency, and federal cases. The second appellate is the court of appeals of which sixteen judges sit both en banc and in panels. The court is referenced as an intermediate appellate court, or IAC. The IAC deals with Civil, Criminal, Administrative Agency, and Juvenile cases.
Lastly, the District Court is named a Limited Jurisdiction Court. The District Court serves ten districts of which 276 judges sit in jury trials, with the exception of small claims and non-extended juvenile cases. Cases mainly seen in the District court are those of tort, real property, mental health, domestic relations, criminal, traffic, small claims and miscellaneous violations. (“National Center for State Courts”)

There is extensive information about all three courts including, justices, judges, jurisdictions, arguments, rulings, and publications at the following links:

Supreme Court of Minnesota: http://www.mncourts.gov/?page=550

District Court of Minnesota: http://www.mncourts.gov/?page=238

Court of Appeals of Minnesota: http://www.mncourts.gov/?page=551

Cite: "Court Statistics Project." National Center for State Courts. 10 26 2009. The National Center for State Courts, Web. 26 Oct 2009. .