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John R. Shoemaker’s civil law practice is devoted primarily to litigation in state and federal courts. He represents individuals, partnerships and corporations in a wide variety of commercial, business and real estate litigation. During Mr. Shoemaker’s 21 years of civil litigation experience, he has represented numerous financial institutions, including banks and mortgage companies, farm equipment manufacturers, automobile dealerships, real estate investors, real estate management companies, commercial and residential landlords, contractors, and individuals. John R. Shoemaker attended the University of North Dakota, School of Law in Grand Forks, North Dakota from 1981 to 1984, and graduated with a “Juris Doctorate” law degree in May 1984.
During the summer of 1984, Mr. Shoemaker prepared for and passed the Minnesota and North Dakota bar examinations. He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Courts of Minnesota and North Dakota in October, 1984. From 1984 through 1985, Mr. Shoemaker was the personal law clerk to the Honorable Gerald W. VandeWalle, Associate Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, in Bismarck, North Dakota. In 1985, Mr. Shoemaker was admitted to practice before the Minnesota Federal District Court in Minneapolis-Saint Paul and the United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Missouri.In 2003, John R. Shoemaker was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court on motion of Minneapolis attorney Floyd Earl Siefferman, Jr. Mr. Shoemaker was associated in law practice with Mr. Siefferman in 1988 and 2003 as part of the Saliterman & Siefferman law firm. During the period of 1985 through 1995, John R. Shoemaker was a member of three Minneapolis-Saint Paul law firms, including as an attorney-associate member of a Minnesota Top 50 law firm in Minneapolis and later as an attorney-shareholder-director-officer with a Minnesota Top 50 law firm in Saint Paul. From 1990 through 2000, John R. Shoemaker represented AGCO Corporation and Massey Ferguson as trial counsel in Minnesota under the direction of Michael F. Swick, Vice-President and General Counsel, Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2003, John R. Shoemaker has been lead counsel in two complex civil litigation cases in federal court involving multiple federal statutory and constitutional claims - Steinhauser, Meysembourg and Brisson v. City of Saint Paul, et al., and Harrilal, Johnson, et al., v. Magner, City of Saint Paul, et al. – these cases are before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on appeal. Mr. Shoemaker has served as issue editor and committee member of The Hennepin Lawyer, a Hennepin County Bar Association magazine, and as editor of the Ramsey Barrister, a Ramsey County Bar Association newsletter. John R. Shoemaker also provides assistance to legal consumers who are seeking personal counsel in Minnesota and North Dakota in areas outside of the practice focus of Shoemaker & Shoemaker, PLLC. Mr. Shoemaker has over 20 years of experience in the Twin Cities legal community and he provides valuable assistance to legal consumers who are faced with the difficult decision of choosing trial counsel from an expanding pool of “qualified” attorneys. John R. Shoemaker has received the “Super Lawyer,” and “Top Lawyer” award published in the Minnesota Journal of Law & Politics and in the Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine.Mr. Shoemaker served three years active duty in the United States Armed Forces as a combat medical specialist and was licensed as a paramedic in the State of North Carolina. Mr. Shoemaker attended college part-time at Methodist College in Fayetteville, North Carolina while serving with the 82nd Airborne Division from 1977-1980. He was twice awarded the 82nd Airborne Distinguished Service Awards and was awarded the U.S. Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service. University of North Dakota School of Law, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1984, Doctor of Jurisprudence North Dakota Law Review, Senior Staff Editor for the legal journal, 1982-84 Central Legal Research, Research Assistant, School of Law, 1982-84 Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina Honors: Cum Laude Major: Business Administration/Economics National Center for Paralegal Training, Atlanta, Georgia Graduate, Civil Litigation, 1980 John R. Shoemaker has written a variety of articles on firearm and constitutional issues published in Minnesota newspapers. “NICS Gun Registration Plans Threaten Individual Freedoms,” Minnesota Sentinel. “Threat to Individual Freedoms, Instant Check System Presents Troubles for Gun Buyers,” Media Bypass. “The disarming of innocents,” Minnesota Libertarian. “Abandoning reason in the public safety search,” Outdoor News, The Sportsman’s Weekly, Commentary. “‘Prohibited persons’ – More could lose the right to own firearms,” Chanhassen Villager, Commentary. “Inequities abound in issuing pistol permits,” Highland Villager, Viewpoint. “Concealed weapon permit process needs overhaul,” Chanhassen Villager, Commentary. Harley Owners Group, Alexandria Lakes Area Chapter, Charter Member American Civil Liberties Union, “card carrying member” since 1996 National Rifle Association, Life Member since 1992 Gun Owners of America, Life Member since 1995 Metro Gun Club, 1989-1995: “100 Straight” Skeet; “25 Straight” Duck Tower. John R. Shoemaker enjoys motorcycling with many friends from Minnesota and Wisconsin, including riding the Flood Run® motorcycle charity run in the spring and fall to benefit the kids at Gillette’s Children’s Hospital, riding the “free spirited” Wisconsin spring “Thaw Nuts” and fall “Frost Nuts” motorcycle runs, riding to and from Sturgis, South Dakota in August, riding the “Crex Meadows” run with the New Richmond, Wisconsin Harley Owners Group each fall and many other “runs” in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Mr. Shoemaker plays guitar and enjoys classical, jazz, rock and blues music. He has made 33 parachute jumps including seven jumps from 13,500 feet at Eloy, Arizona. Legal Research http://www.courts.state.mn.us/ http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/ Legislation http://www.house.gov/paul/legis.shtml News and Public Debate http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities.html Motorcycling http://www.floodrun.org/ Benefit for Gillette’s Children’s Hospital http://www.sturgis.com/ August in the Black Hills http://www.sturgisviewcampground.com/ Good times with friends http://www.harley-davidson.com/ Made in America http://www.apols.com/ Harley Davidson, Alexandria, Minnesota The Blues Lamont Cranston: http://www.lamontcranston.com/ Reverend Raven and his Chain Smoking Altar Boys: Ted Larsen – Blues guitarist and instructor: http://www.myspace.com/teddylarsen Mike O’Malley – Guitarist, instructor: http://www.myspace.com/nowallsmike “It’s a Big Club … and you ain’t in it … you and I are not in the Big Club.” George Carlin "No matter how well intentioned, an authoritarian government always abuses its powers" --Congressman Ron Paul, Texas "Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." Justice Brandeis, dissenting opinion, Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1929). “Whatever one thinks of state action as a viable limiting principle on the constitutional command of equality, it should at least be clear that the most outrageous deprivations of equal rights are those perpetrated by the state itself.” United States v. City of Black Jack, Missouri, 508 F.2d. 1179 (8th Cir. 1974). “The events that mark the end of one form of government and the beginning of another are more easily perceived and understood in the aftermath than by those caught up in the events and circumstances that constitute the transformation. The passions and affections of the moment interfere with the detachment that makes it possible for the mind to see the true significance of issues and decisions. Some things that seem large and momentous are in fact the exaggerated mirages of transient passion; others dismissed as sideshows will be seen in retrospect as crucial to the main event.” -- Alan Keyes, Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan |
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