Minnesota Supreme Court Decisions 2013
Date: December 26, 2013
Docket Number: A10-1584
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree felony murder while committing a drive-by shooting for the benefit of a gang. The Supreme Court stayed Appellant’s direct appeal to permit Appellant to file a…
Date: December 26, 2013
Docket Number: A12-217
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant pleaded guilty to first-degree driving while impaired (DWI). After receiving a notice advising him of the County’s intent to forfeit his vehicle pursuant to Minn. Stat. 169A.63, Appellant sought a judicial…
Date: December 26, 2013
Docket Number: A12-2324
Justia Opinion Summary: Relator was injured while attending a required training session at the general office of her employer. A workers’ compensation judge denied Relator’s claim for benefits, finding that Relator’s injury did not arise out of…
Date: December 26, 2013
Docket Number: A13-1155
Date: December 26, 2013
Docket Number: A13-65
Date: December 26, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: December 18, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2119
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent brought this action against Appellant, seeking to recover payment for industrial equipment it fabricated for Appellant. Appellant counterclaimed for breach of contract. The district court entered judgment in…
Date: December 18, 2013
Docket Numbers: ADM09-8008, ADM10-8002
Date: December 11, 2013
Docket Number: A12-2336
Date: December 11, 2013
Docket Number: A13-262
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction on direct appeal. Defendant subsequently filed several petitions for postconviction relief.…
Date: December 11, 2013
Docket Number: A13-810
Date: December 11, 2013
Docket Number: A13-927
Justia Opinion Summary: After completing an audit of Taxpayers' joint income tax returns, the Commissioner of Revenue issued an order assessing additional taxes. That day, a revenue tax specialist sent Taxpayers an e-mail informing them of the…
Date: December 4, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1793
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of two counts of felony violation of a domestic abuse no-contact order. The court of appeals reversed and remanded for a new trial, holding (1) the failure to instruct on an…
Date: December 4, 2013
Docket Number: A12-370
Justia Opinion Summary: A subcontractor on a public project filed suit against the general contractor and an insurance company that provided a payment bond seeking to recover money owed under the subcontract after the general contractor…
Date: December 4, 2013
Docket Number: A12-681
Justia Opinion Summary: Wapiti Park Campgrounds, Inc. operated a campground on land in the City of Elk River. The City enacted a series of zoning ordinances that first allowed campgrounds as a conditional use and then removed campgrounds as…
Date: December 4, 2013
Docket Numbers: ADM04-8001, ADM09-8006, ADM09-8009, ADM10-8011, ADM10-8050, ADM10-8051, C4-84-2133, C4-85-1848, C4-94-1646, C6-84-2134, CX-89-1863, CX-89-1963
Date: November 27, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1273
Date: November 27, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1442
Date: November 20, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1181
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with first-degree premeditated murder for the benefit of a gang. Defendant was acquitted of the first-degree murder offense but convicted of the lesser-included offense of second-degree intentional…
Date: November 20, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1273
Justia Opinion Summary: Through the exercise of its eminent-domain power, the County of Dakota acquired a commercial property owned by Appellant. Following an administrative hearing, three condemnation commissioners awarded Appellant $655,000…
Date: November 20, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1442
Date: November 20, 2013
Docket Number: A12-327
Justia Opinion Summary: Johnson Controls, Inc. contracted with a school district (the District) to provide design services. Johnson then subcontracted with Architectural Resources, Inc. Marshall Helmberger subsequently submitted a request to…
Date: November 20, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: November 13, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1101
Date: November 13, 2013
Docket Number: A12-2124
Date: November 13, 2013
Docket Number: A13-1173
Date: November 6, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2072
Date: November 6, 2013
Docket Number: A11-352
Date: November 6, 2013
Docket Number: A12-263
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Respondent was convicted of third-degree criminal conduct in violation of Minn. Stat. 609.344(1)(l)(i) (the clergy-sexual-conduct statute) based on a sexual relationship between Respondent, a Roman…
Date: October 30, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1833
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to three concurrent sentences of life imprisonment with the possibility of release. Appellant subsequently filed three…
Date: October 30, 2013
Docket Number: A13-531
Date: October 30, 2013
Docket Number: A13-601
Date: October 30, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: October 23, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1042
Justia Opinion Summary: In each of three separate incidents, the State charged Defendant with two counts of first-degree driving while impaired. Defendant moved to suppress the results of blood and urine tests in each case because law…
Date: October 23, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: October 9, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1052
Date: October 9, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1147
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent was charged with criminal sexual conduct in the fourth and fifth degree. Respondent agreed to conduct a trial on stipulated facts pursuant to Minn. R. Crim. P. 26.01(3) and waived all trial rights. The…
Date: October 9, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2265
Date: October 9, 2013
Docket Number: A12-2350
Date: October 9, 2013
Docket Number: A12-2351
Date: October 2, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1517
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of two counts of aggravated forgery. The district court sentenced Appellant to twelve months in prison for each charge, to be served concurrently. Appellant appealed,…
Date: October 2, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2189
Justia Opinion Summary: Following a court trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, second-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping, and third-degree assault. Upon sentencing Appellant, the district court found…
Date: October 2, 2013
Docket Number: A12-570
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder in the course of a burglary and sentenced to life imprisonment. Appellant subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief, alleging that he was…
Date: October 2, 2013
Docket Number: A12-678
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder. The Supreme Court affirmed. Appellant subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief, alleging, inter alia, that one of the witnesses who…
Date: October 2, 2013
Docket Number: ADM10-8046
Date: October 2, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: September 23, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1705
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was a real estate firm that owned a vacant four-story building (the property) and sought to develop it into an office building. Before the Minneapolis City Council approved Appellant's site plan application,…
Date: September 23, 2013
Docket Number: A12-150
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary and was placed on probation for five years. The district court also ordered Respondent to pay restitution in monthly payments. Near the expiration of Respondent's…
Date: September 23, 2013
Docket Number: A12-2002
Date: September 23, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: September 18, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2126
Date: September 18, 2013
Docket Number: A11-352
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2009, Minnesota Power sought an increase in service rates of approximately 18.9 percent. As part of its submission to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, Minnesota Power also requested an interim rate increase…
Date: September 18, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1101
Date: September 11, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1379
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Juan Humberto Castillo-Alvarez challenged his convictions for second-degree murder and kidnapping. Appellant contended that Minn. Stat. 609.045 (2012) and the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Minnesota…
Date: September 11, 2013
Docket Numbers: A12-1002, A12-1830
Date: September 11, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1081
Date: September 11, 2013
Docket Number: A12-163
Date: September 11, 2013
Docket Number: A13-1002
Justia Opinion Summary: On June 6, 2013, the Green Party of Minnesota and its chair, Brian Begin, filed a petition asserting that Respondent Secretary of State Mark Ritchie erred in decertifying the Green Party as a minor political party.…
Date: September 11, 2013
Docket Number: A13-1429
Date: September 11, 2013
Docket Number: A13-1431
Date: September 4, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1464
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Ronald Greer sought post-conviction relief from his murder conviction. The trial court denied relief, and he appealed that denial to the Supreme Court. Finding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion…
Date: September 4, 2013
Docket Number: A13-683
Date: September 4, 2013
Docket Number: A13-855
Date: August 28, 2013
Docket Number: A08-1143
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of two counts of first-degree premeditated murder, two counts of first-degree felony murder, and three counts of first-degree aggravated robbery. The Supreme Court affirmed…
Date: August 28, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2220
Justia Opinion Summary: Mark Hilde hired Big Lake Lumber (Big Lake), Wruck Excavating (Wruck), and J. DesMarais Construction (DesMarais) to help him build a "spec home." 21st Century Bank (Bank) recorded a mortgage against the property to…
Date: August 28, 2013
Docket Number: A12-2273
Date: August 28, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: August 21, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2030
Justia Opinion Summary: Skyline Materials applied for a variance from the setback requirements of Houston County's zoning ordinance. The County granted the variance. Respondents, owners of property that was adjacent to the property owned by…
Date: August 21, 2013
Docket Number: A12-58
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant, who was HIV positive, engaged in consensual anal intercourse. Defendant was subsequently charged with attempted first-degree assault by transferring a communicable disease for violating Minn. Stat.…
Date: August 14, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1687
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of criminal vehicular homicide for causing the death of ninety-three-year-old Edith Schouveller in a motor vehicle accident. The accident occurred on March 28, 2010.…
Date: August 14, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1904
Justia Opinion Summary: A snowplow driver for the City of Alexandria collided with Donald Fernow's vehicle. Fernow brought a personal injury action against the City. At the same time, Fernow's insurance company (Insurer) sought arbitration…
Date: August 14, 2013
Docket Number: A12-166
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants, approximately 750 employees, brought a class action against their employers (Employers), alleging five causes of action, including unlawful deductions made in violation of Minn. Stat. 181.79. The jury found…
Date: August 14, 2013
Docket Number: A13-1003
Date: August 14, 2013
Docket Number: ADM09-8002
Date: August 14, 2013
Docket Numbers: ADM04-8001, ADM09-8006, ADM09-8009, ADM10-8011, ADM10-8050, ADM10-8051, C4-84-2133, C4-85-1848, C4-94-1646, C6-84-2134, CX-89-1863, CX-89-1963
Date: August 14, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: August 7, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1507
Justia Opinion Summary: After Washington County assessed the value of one of properties owned by Kohl's Department Stores for the years 2007-2009, Kohl's challenged the valuation. The tax court adjusted the County's assessment by increasing the…
Date: August 7, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1734
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial in 1994, Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of release. Seven months later, Defendant pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder.…
Date: August 7, 2013
Docket Number: A12-79
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of nine counts, including one count of first-degree premeditated murder and two counts of attempted first-degree premeditated murder, stemming from an incident in which…
Date: July 31, 2013
Docket Number: A09-1921
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and sentenced to forty-eight months in prison. As part of the sentencing order, the trial court ordered Defendant to pay restitution.…
Date: July 31, 2013
Docket Number: A10-1705
Date: July 31, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1454
Date: July 31, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1715
Date: July 31, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2082
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was discharged after testing positive to a drug test. Nearly three years after being discharged, Appellant filed an action against Respondents, his former employers, alleging that Respondents violated various…
Date: July 31, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1184
Date: July 31, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1706
Justia Opinion Summary: The Commissioner of Revenue ordered Sharon Soyka to pay income taxes, penalties, and interest for the 2007 tax year. Soyka had sixty days to appeal the Commissioner's order to the tax court. Instead, Soyka filed her…
Date: July 31, 2013
Docket Number: A12-823
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder by drive-by shooting and first-degree premeditated murder. Defendant appealed, arguing that the trial court erred in admitting out-of-court statements…
Date: July 31, 2013
Docket Number: A12-846
Date: July 24, 2013
Docket Number: A12-290
Justia Opinion Summary: The district court issued domestic abuse no contact orders pursuant to Minn. Stat. 629.75(1) prohibiting Appellant from contacting his wife. After Appellant allegedly contacted his wife, he was charged with two felony…
Date: July 24, 2013
Docket Number: A12-326
Date: July 24, 2013
Docket Number: A12-73
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and second-degree murder. Appellant appealed, asserting, among other issues, that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress…
Date: July 24, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: July 17, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2265
Date: July 17, 2013
Docket Number: A13-633
Date: July 10, 2013
Docket Number: A13-889
Date: July 10, 2013
Docket Number: A13-917
Date: July 3, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1279
Date: July 3, 2013
Docket Number: A12-323
Justia Opinion Summary: Taxpayer was a trust fund that purchased property in Ramsey County. Taxpayer sought an exemption from taxation for the property on the basis that it was a "seminary of learning" and therefore exempt under Minn. Stat.…
Date: July 3, 2013
Docket Number: A13-683
Date: July 3, 2013
Docket Number: A13-705
Date: July 3, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: June 26, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1510
Date: June 26, 2013
Docket Number: A12-635
Justia Opinion Summary: The State charged Defendant with two counts of second-degree murder for the stabbing death of Tina San Roman and second-degree assault and attempted second-degree murder for the stabbing of a second victim, O.A.R. A jury…
Date: June 26, 2013
Docket Number: A13-755
Date: June 26, 2013
Docket Number: A13-794
Date: June 26, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: June 19, 2013
Docket Numbers: ADM04-8001, ADM09-8006, ADM09-8009, ADM10-8011, ADM10-8050, ADM10-8051, C4-84-2133, C4-85-1848, C4-94-1646, C6-84-2134, CX-89-1863, CX-89-1963
Date: June 12, 2013
Docket Number: A12-2036
Date: June 12, 2013
Docket Number: A12-868
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction. After unsuccessfully filing four petitions for postconviction relief, Appellant filed a "Motion for DNA…
Date: June 12, 2013
Docket Numbers: ADM04-8001, ADM09-8006, ADM09-8009, ADM10-8011, ADM10-8050, ADM10-8051, C4-84-2133, C4-85-1848, C4-94-1646, C6-84-2134, CX-89-1863, CX-89-1963
Date: June 5, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2126
Date: May 31, 2013
Docket Number: A09-1641
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder for the shooting death of Johanna Hollis and the attempted first-degree murder of Hollis's daughter. At trial, the State was only able to present a minimal amount of direct…
Date: May 31, 2013
Docket Number: A10-332
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved a facial challenge to the constitutionality of the City of Red Wing's rental property inspection ordinance. Appellants were landlords and tenants who brought suit seeking a declaratory that the City's…
Date: May 31, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1319
Justia Opinion Summary: The grandparent visitation statute allows a court to award visitation as part of several different kinds of proceedings, including a proceeding for parentage. The district court awarded grandparent visitation to the…
Date: May 31, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1665
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was found guilty of first-degree murder while committing domestic abuse with a past pattern of domestic abuse, and second-degree murder while committing a felony. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the…
Date: May 31, 2013
Docket Number: A11-181
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants hired Respondent as the general contractor to build a seasonal residence on Appellant's property. Respondent purchased a general liability insurance policy from Midwest Family Mutual Insurance Company that…
Date: May 31, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1954
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was found guilty of first-degree murder and related charges. The district court sentenced Appellant on the first-degree murder conviction to a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without…
Date: May 31, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2315
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant indicted of four counts of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree murder, and several related crimes arising out of the shooting death of his ex-wife and the kidnapping of their three children. Because…
Date: May 31, 2013
Docket Number: A11-402
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondents, on behalf of their six-year-old daughter, Jocelyn, alleged that Appellants, a medical doctor and medical center, negligently failed to diagnose Jocelyn's cancer and that if they had timely diagnosed…
Date: May 31, 2013
Docket Number: A12-21
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of release. The Supreme Court affirmed Appellant's conviction, holding (1) the…
Date: May 31, 2013
Docket Number: A12-463
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of two counts of first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree arson, and theft of a motor vehicle. The district court sentenced Defendant to two consecutive life sentences…
Date: May 31, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: May 29, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1116
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants were landowners who elected to require a utility to condemn their property in fee after Respondents sought to acquire easements through their property by eminent domain in order to construct a high-voltage…
Date: May 29, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1225
Justia Opinion Summary: Father and Mother were divorced pursuant to a judgment and decree which provided that Father pay child support to Mother. Father later moved to modify his child-support obligation, arguing that certain distributions paid…
Date: May 29, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1831
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant in this case was a nine-year-old boy with severe autism, epilepsy, and chronic seizures. The Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) found that Appellant was not dependent in "mobility"…
Date: May 29, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1041
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of fleeing a peace officer by means other than a motor vehicle pursuant to Minn. Stat. 609.487(6) after she ran from a police officer who was responding to a stabbing at a bar.…
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1146
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent was adjudicated delinquent of felony burglary and misdemeanor theft. Thereafter, Respondent obtained a district court order expunging his juvenile delinquency records held by the judicial branch and sought to…
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1285
Justia Opinion Summary: Pursuant to a plea agreement, the district court convicted Respondent of aggravated forgery. After Respondent was discharged from probation, she filed a second petition for expungement of her criminal record. The…
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1925
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent credit union sought to foreclose on the homestead that Appellant and her husband (Husband) owned. The district court granted summary judgment to Appellant after concluding that the mortgage Appellant signed…
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2038
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2178
Justia Opinion Summary: Employees filed a complaint against two employers (Employers), alleging that Employers violated the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA) based on sexual harassment perpetrated by the sole owner of both entities (Owner).…
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: A11-224
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1342
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff and his ex-wife both claimed their two children as dependents on their state individual income tax returns. The Minnesota Department of Revenue determined that only Plaintiff's ex-wife was entitled to claim the…
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: A12-2286
Justia Opinion Summary: On December 21, 2012, Petitioner, the Independence Party candidate in the November 6, 2012 election for the U.S. House of Representatives, filed this petition pursuant to Minn. Stat. 204B.44 seeking declaratory and…
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: A12-873
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2005, the Department of Revenue audited Relator and assessed Relator for the amount of sales tax he collected from his customers but failed to remit to the State. The Commissioner of Revenue (Commissioner) adjusted…
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: A13-633
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: A13-657
Date: May 15, 2013
Docket Number: A12-571
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of premeditated first-degree murder. The Supreme Court affirmed on direct appeal. Appellant subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief requesting a new trial or an…
Date: May 15, 2013
Docket Number: A12-821
Date: May 15, 2013
Docket Numbers: ADM04-8001, ADM09-8006, ADM09-8009, ADM10-8011, ADM10-8050, ADM10-8051, C4-84-2133, C4-85-1848, C4-94-1646, C6-84-2134, CX-89-1863, CX-89-1963
Date: May 8, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1848
Date: May 8, 2013
Docket Number: A13-184
Date: May 8, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: May 1, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1693
Date: May 1, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1817
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2000, Appellant was indeterminately committed as a sexual dangerous person as a result of a series of sex offenses involving teenage girls. Appellant later petitioned for provisional discharge from civil commitment.…
Date: May 1, 2013
Docket Number: A11-705
Justia Opinion Summary: After the City of Moorhead annexed Americana Estates (Americana), a residential subdivision with sixty-five metered electric service accounts, the City filed a condemnation petition to begin municipal electric service to…
Date: May 1, 2013
Docket Number: A12-170
Justia Opinion Summary: After a trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder while committing first-degree criminal sexual conduct and was sentenced to life in prison. On appeal, Appellant challenged his conviction on several grounds…
Date: April 24, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1565
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with several misdemeanor offenses, including driving a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or more. Defendant filed a request to preserve "blood tests," but…
Date: April 24, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1693
Date: April 24, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2022
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, second-degree intentional murder, and second-degree unintentional murder while committing a felony. Defendant appealed, seeking a new trial…
Date: April 24, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1225
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree intentional drive-by shooting murder, attempted first-degree premeditated murder, and attempted first-degree intentional…
Date: April 24, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1564
Date: April 24, 2013
Docket Number: A12-2130
Date: April 24, 2013
Docket Number: A12-480
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder while committing first-degree criminal sexual conduct causing personal injury. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction on appeal. Appellant subsequently filed a petition…
Date: April 24, 2013
Docket Number: A12-542
Justia Opinion Summary: Eden Prairie Mall, LLC (EPM) owned a mall. Included in the mall parcel for property tax purposes were the mall's in-line tenants, five anchor tenants, and a movie theater complex. EPM sought review of the tax court's…
Date: April 24, 2013
Docket Number: A12-632
Justia Opinion Summary: The Living Word Bible Camp, a tax-exempt organization, owned property in Itasca County. Living Word sought to obtain the necessary governmental approvals to use the property as a summer bible camp and retreat center.…
Date: April 24, 2013
Docket Number: A12-963
Justia Opinion Summary: The subject property was located at 44 Lafayette Road in Saint Paul. Relators challenged the County's assessments for the assessment dates 2007, 2008, and 2009. After trial, the tax court adopted the market values…
Date: April 24, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: April 17, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1081
Justia Opinion Summary: 1st Fidelity Loan Servicing initiated a foreclosure by advertisement to collect the debt secured by a mortgage on the home of Respondent. 1st Fidelity subsequently purchased the property at the foreclosure sale.…
Date: April 17, 2013
Docket Number: A12-333
Date: April 17, 2013
Docket Number: A12-499
Justia Opinion Summary: Relator was at all times relevant to this case employed by the National Basketball Association as a referee. Relator did not file Minnesota income tax returns for the 2003 and 2004 tax years but subsequently filed a 2003…
Date: April 17, 2013
Docket Number: A12-617
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted in 1990 of first-degree premeditated murder. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction on direct appeal. Defendant subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief requesting an evidentiary…
Date: April 10, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1397
Date: April 10, 2013
Docket Number: A12-395
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2002, Employee suffered injuries in a work-related accident and was rendered a paraplegic. Employer and its insurer accepted liability for Employee's injuries and paid various workers' compensation benefits. In 2010,…
Date: April 3, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: March 27, 2013
Docket Number: A10-2219
Justia Opinion Summary: At the time of his divorce from Wife, Husband was a participant in a pension fund (Fund). To enforce the interest awarded to her under the decree, Wife needed to serve a domestic relations order (DRO) on the Fund and its…
Date: March 27, 2013
Docket Numbers: A11-1471, A11-644
Date: March 27, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1819
Date: March 27, 2013
Docket Number: A12-603
Date: March 27, 2013
Docket Number: A12-66
Justia Opinion Summary: Two children's foster parents filed a petition to adopt the children, as did the children's grandparents. The district court concluded that it was in the best interests of the children to be adopted by the foster parents…
Date: March 27, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: March 20, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1145
Justia Opinion Summary: Second Chance Investments, LLC (SCI) purchased a fire insurance policy from Auto-Owners Insurance Company (Auto-Owners) that covered a building with the limit of insurance set at $2,095,500. The building subsequently…
Date: March 20, 2013
Docket Number: A11-2337
Justia Opinion Summary: On their 2007 Minnesota individual income tax return, John and Deborah Billion claimed a $55,904 deduction for carryover losses incurred in 2005 by a Minnesota subchapter S corporation in which John Billion was a…
Date: March 20, 2013
Docket Number: A11-541
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder. On appeal, the Supreme Court affirmed the conviction. Appellant subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief alleging seven…
Date: March 20, 2013
Docket Number: A13-175
Date: March 20, 2013
Docket Number: A13-184
Date: March 20, 2013
Docket Numbers: ADM09-8008, ADM10-8002
Date: March 15, 2013
Docket Numbers: ADM09-8008, ADM10-8002
Date: March 13, 2013
Docket Number: A11-644
Justia Opinion Summary: Central Lakes College (CLC) formally petitioned the City of Brainerd to reconstruct a road. The City validated the petition and resolved to pay for a portion of the project with special assessments. Appellants, who owned…
Date: March 13, 2013
Docket Number: A12-640
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted for first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. After Defendant's convictions were affirmed on appeal, Defendant filed four separate petitions for postconviction relief, each of which…
Date: March 13, 2013
Docket Number: A12-943
Date: March 13, 2013
Docket Number: A13-175
Date: March 13, 2013
Docket Number: A13-184
Date: March 6, 2013
Docket Number: A12-274
Date: March 6, 2013
Docket Number: ADM09-8002
Date: March 6, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: February 27, 2013
Docket Number: A10-1351
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of aiding and abetting the first-degree murder of his brother as well as obstructing an investigation. Appellant was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for…
Date: February 27, 2013
Docket Number: A10-1938
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of possessing a firearm as an ineligible person in violation of Minn. Stat. 624.713(1)(2), which prohibits a person previously convicted of a crime of violence from possessing…
Date: February 27, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1314
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury found Defendant guilty of first-degree felony murder while committing a drive-by shooting and second-degree intentional murder. The district court convicted Defendant of first-degree felony murder and sentenced…
Date: February 27, 2013
Docket Number: A12-2087
Date: February 27, 2013
Docket Number: A12-310
Justia Opinion Summary: Following a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and attempted first-degree premeditated murder. After Appellant's first petition for postconviction relief was denied, Appellant filed a…
Date: February 27, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: February 20, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1631
Date: February 20, 2013
Docket Number: A12-525
Date: February 20, 2013
Docket Numbers: ADM04-8001, ADM09-8006, ADM09-8009, ADM10-8011, ADM10-8050, ADM10-8051, C4-84-2133, C4-85-1848, C4-94-1646, C6-84-2134, CX-89-1863, CX-89-1963
Date: February 13, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1547
Date: February 13, 2013
Docket Number: A11-581
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff leased a vehicle from BMW. Plaintiff claimed the leased vehicle was defective and brought suit against BMW. After a bench trial, the trial court awarded Plaintiff $25,157 in damages based on Minnesota's lemon…
Date: February 13, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1295
Date: February 13, 2013
Docket Number: A12-908
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and attempted first-degree murder. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions on…
Date: February 6, 2013
Docket Number: A09-1066
Date: February 6, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1266
Date: February 6, 2013
Docket Number: A12-428
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1995, Katelyn Janson was severely injured in an automobile accident. A lawsuit ended with a settlement in which two annuities were established, both of which guaranteed payments to Katelyn starting in 2001 and…
Date: February 6, 2013
Docket Number: A12-704
Date: February 6, 2013
Docket Number: A12-878
Date: February 6, 2013
Docket Numbers: ADM04-8001, ADM09-8006, ADM09-8009, ADM10-8011, ADM10-8050, ADM10-8051, C4-84-2133, C4-85-1848, C4-94-1646, C6-84-2134, CX-89-1863, CX-89-1963
Date: February 6, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Number: A10-1350
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant, an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, was civilly committed to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP). Appellant appealed, challenging his indeterminate civil commitment by asserting three…
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1154
Justia Opinion Summary: After David McKee, a physician, acted in a manner Dennis Laurion considered rule and insensitive, Laurion posted critical comments about McKee on various "rate-your-doctor" websites and also sent letters to several…
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1966
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Number: A12-89
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of aiding and abetting first-degree premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release. The Supreme Court affirmed Appellant's conviction…
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Numbers: ADM10-8008, C5-84-2139
Date: January 30, 2013
Docket Numbers: ADM10-8049, C1-84-2137
Date: January 23, 2013
Docket Number: A11-11
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent sued Appellants for negligence and resulting injuries sustained in a car accident. The parties entered into a tentative settlement subject to Respondent giving her underinsured motorist (UIM) carrier notice…
Date: January 23, 2013
Docket Number: A11-1449
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of aiding and abetting first-degree murder and aiding and abetting attempted first-degree murder. Appellant appealed, arguing that the district court committed reversible error in admitting a…
Date: January 23, 2013
Docket Number: A11-159
Justia Opinion Summary: L.H. Bolduc Company, Inc. (Bolduc) was the subcontractor of Engineering and Construction Innovations, Inc. (ECI). Bolduc damaged a sewer pipe while working on a construction project. ECI repaired the damage and sought…
Date: January 23, 2013
Docket Number: List
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: A12-1159
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: A12-2087
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: A12-252
Justia Opinion Summary: Todd County assessed taxes on property owned by John and Carrie Beck based on its conclusion that the property had an estimated market value of $397,400 as of January 2, 2009. John petitioned the tax court for relief.…
Date: January 16, 2013
Docket Number: A12-574
Date: January 9, 2013
Docket Number: A12-378
Justia Opinion Summary: From 1999-2006, Relator filed his Minnesota individual income tax return as a nonresident. After the Commissioner of Revenue conducted two audits of Relator's individual income tax returns spanning the 2002-2006 tax…
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