Minnesota Supreme Court Decisions 2015
Date: December 30, 2015
Docket Number: A14-24
Date: December 30, 2015
Docket Number: A14-275
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pleaded guilty pursuant to an Alford plea to fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct. Jane Doe subsequently sued Defendant, alleging that he committed sexual battery and sexual abuse based on the conduct that gave…
Date: December 30, 2015
Docket Number: A15-1632
Date: December 23, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1395
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder. The Supreme Court affirmed. Appellant later filed his current petition for postconviction relief alleging that a witness had recanted his trial…
Date: December 23, 2015
Docket Number: A14-213
Date: December 23, 2015
Docket Number: A15-743
Date: December 23, 2015
Docket Number: ADM05-8001
Date: December 23, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: December 16, 2015
Docket Numbers: A14-132, A14-224
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondents, Angela Lennartson and Katie Foss, were involved in separate car accidents and recovered damages in their respective negligence actions. Subsequently, each respondent was awarded no-fault benefits from their…
Date: December 16, 2015
Docket Number: A14-889
Date: December 16, 2015
Docket Number: A15-1011
Date: December 16, 2015
Docket Number: A15-1947
Date: December 16, 2015
Docket Number: A15-223
Date: December 16, 2015
Docket Number: A15-820
Date: December 16, 2015
Docket Number: ADM05-8001
Date: December 9, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1285
Justia Opinion Summary: As a condition of his probation from a prior conviction, Respondent was required to attend anger-management therapy sessions with N.M., a mental-health practitioner. During one session, Respondent made a threatening…
Date: December 9, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1803
Justia Opinion Summary: The State charged Appellant with aiding and abetting first-degree sale of a mixture of a controlled substance of ten grams or more in connection with the sale of methamphetamine. During trial, Appellant objected to the…
Date: December 9, 2015
Docket Number: A14-2210
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, Appellant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder. The district court sentenced Appellant to life imprisonment and reserved the issue of restitution for thirty days. The court, however, took no further…
Date: December 9, 2015
Docket Number: A15-740
Date: December 2, 2015
Docket Number: A15-1316
Date: December 2, 2015
Docket Number: A15-233
Date: December 2, 2015
Docket Numbers: ADM10-8049, C1-84-2137
Date: December 2, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: November 25, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1416
Date: November 25, 2015
Docket Number: A14-504
Date: November 25, 2015
Docket Number: A14-724
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant used Respondent as the general contractor for the construction of a building. When the building began having problems with water intrusion, Appellant brought suit claiming that Respondent acted negligently in…
Date: November 25, 2015
Docket Number: A14-774
Date: November 25, 2015
Docket Number: A15-1146
Date: November 25, 2015
Docket Number: A15-212
Date: November 25, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: November 18, 2015
Docket Number: A15-1316
Date: November 12, 2015
Docket Number: A14-710
Date: November 12, 2015
Docket Number: A15-1148
Date: November 12, 2015
Docket Number: A15-357
Date: November 4, 2015
Docket Number: A14-247
Date: November 4, 2015
Docket Number: A15-1526
Date: November 4, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: October 28, 2015
Docket Number: A13-2225
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant represented a client pursuant to a contingent-fee agreement but voluntarily withdrew from the representation of the client when efforts to settle the case failed. The client subsequently retained substitute…
Date: October 28, 2015
Docket Number: A14-247
Justia Opinion Summary: An insurance company (Insurer) issued a policy of insurance on a building. A bank (Bank) was named in the policy as mortgagee. The policy contained a standard mortgage clause and a vacancy clause. The building was later…
Date: October 28, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: October 21, 2015
Docket Number: A13-2305
Date: October 21, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1852
Date: October 21, 2015
Docket Number: A14-2111
Date: October 21, 2015
Docket Number: A14-2165
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial in 2003, Appellant was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of release. In 2014, Appellant filed his sixth postconviction petition, alleging…
Date: October 14, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1871
Justia Opinion Summary: The Minnesota Board on Judicial Standards brought a formal complaint against Hon. Alan F. Pendleton, Judge of the District Court of the Tenth Judicial District, alleging that Pendleton violated the Code of Judicial…
Date: October 14, 2015
Docket Number: A15-426
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1987, after a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder while committing criminal sexual conduct. Appellant was sentenced to life in prison. In 2014, Appellant brought a motion to correct his…
Date: October 14, 2015
Docket Numbers: ADM09-8008, ADM10-8002
Date: October 14, 2015
Docket Numbers: ADM10-8002, C9-81-1206
Date: October 7, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1388
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant, a Delaware limited liability company, made short-term, high-interest payday loans to Minnesota residents over the Internet. Integrity conceded that its payday loans did not comply with several provisions of…
Date: October 7, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1384
Date: October 7, 2015
Docket Number: A15-1382
Date: October 7, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: September 30, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1313
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of first-degree assault. The jury found that certain facts existed to support a sentencing departure under the repeat offender aggravating factor. After a sentencing…
Date: September 16, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1311
Date: September 16, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1871
Date: September 9, 2015
Docket Number: A13-872
Justia Opinion Summary: After Employee ended his employment with Employer he applied for and received state unemployment benefits from the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) and supplemental unemployment benefits (SUB)…
Date: September 9, 2015
Docket Number: A14-2111
Date: September 9, 2015
Docket Number: A14-475
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1997, Appellant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and attempted first-degree murder. In 2003, Appellant filed his first postconviction petition. The postconviction court denied the petition after…
Date: September 9, 2015
Docket Number: A15-1227
Date: September 9, 2015
Docket Number: A15-139
Date: September 3, 2015
Docket Number: A13-2350
Date: September 3, 2015
Docket Number: A15-246
Date: September 3, 2015
Docket Numbers: ADM10-8049, C1-84-2137
Date: September 3, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: September 2, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: August 26, 2015
Docket Number: A13-821
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of felony fourth-degree assault of a peace officer in violation of Minn. Stat. 609.2231(1). Appellant appealed, arguing that the district court abused its discretion by…
Date: August 26, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1399
Justia Opinion Summary: After being placed on probation, Appellant was cited for consumption of alcohol by a minor and disorderly conduct. The State subsequently moved to have Appellant’s probation revoked, and the State cited Appellant for…
Date: August 26, 2015
Docket Number: A14-942
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of one count of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder. The Supreme Court affirmed the convictions, holding (1) the district court’s exclusion from…
Date: August 26, 2015
Docket Number: A15-567
Date: August 19, 2015
Docket Number: A12-599
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of third-degree driving while impaired. At trial, the court admitted test results showing Appellant’s alcohol concentration at the time of the incident that were based on a warrantless blood draw.…
Date: August 19, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1477
Justia Opinion Summary: The City of Rochester contracted with Rochester City Lines, Co. (RCL) for more than thirty years to operate the municipal bus service in Rochester. In 2011, the Federal Transit Administration informed the City that, in…
Date: August 19, 2015
Docket Number: A14-128
Date: August 19, 2015
Docket Number: A14-771
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was the driver of a vehicle that was involved in a single-vehicle rollover crash. The accident resulted in one fatality. At the time of the accident, an officer obtained a blood draw from Defendant, and later…
Date: August 12, 2015
Docket Numbers: A14-1883, A14-2168
Justia Opinion Summary: The property at issue in this appeal was the ethanol-production facility owned by Guardian Energy, LLC. After the county assessor estimated the market value of the property, Guardian Energy challenged the assessments by…
Date: August 12, 2015
Docket Number: A14-834
Date: August 12, 2015
Docket Number: A15-1079
Date: August 12, 2015
Docket Number: A15-18
Justia Opinion Summary: After the Dakota County Assessor estimated the market value of Westview Mall, owned by KCP Hastings, LLC, KCP challenged the estimated assessments. After a trial, the tax court adopted market valuations of the property…
Date: August 12, 2015
Docket Number: A15-555
Date: August 12, 2015
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 12, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: August 6, 2015
Docket Number: A15-1079
Date: August 6, 2015
Docket Number: A15-555
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1028
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2005, the City of Winona enacted the thirty-percent rule, which limits the number of lots on a block in certain areas of the City that are eligible for certification as rental properties. Appellants brought this…
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1071
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was found guilty of second-degree murder for the benefit of a gang, attempted second-degree murder, second-degree assault for the benefit of a gang, and second-degree assault. The court of appeals reversed…
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1596
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was one of nineteen individuals injured when a school bus was struck by an at-fault vehicle. Appellant sought excess underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage benefits from his family’s automobile policy with…
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1967
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent, the chief investigator for the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) of the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, was investigating Affiliated Counseling Center, LLC (Affiliated) when she applied for and received…
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Number: A13-2317
Justia Opinion Summary: On July 13, 2007, Appellant was charged with fifth-degree controlled substance crime. Appellant pleaded guilty. On February 27, 2009, the court stayed adjudication of Appellant’s case under Minn. Stat. 152.18(1), placing…
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Number: A13-256
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1042
Justia Opinion Summary: Based on an indirect audit that the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Revenue conducted of the sales and use tax returns for Conga Corporation for the tax periods from January 1, 2007 through March 31, 2010,…
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1402
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder of a peace officer. The Supreme Court affirmed on direct appeal. Appellant subsequently filed a postconviction petition, which the district court denied. The Supreme Court…
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1767
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial in 1995, Appellant was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder and attempted first-degree premeditated murder. The district court imposed a sentence of life imprisonment with the possibility…
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1996
Justia Opinion Summary: Relators were sixteen electric cooperatives located in Minnesota. The cooperatives filed amended sales-tax returns for tax periods spanning the years 2004-06 to recover sales taxes they had paid for the portion of the…
Date: August 5, 2015
Docket Number: A14-2061
Date: July 29, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1461
Justia Opinion Summary: Reichmann Land and Cattle, LLP managed a winter feeding facility. In 2011, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) issued an administrative order requiring Reichmann to obtain…
Date: July 29, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1198
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. The Supreme Court affirmed. Appellant then filed a pro se petition for postconviction relief alleging, inter alia,…
Date: July 29, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1607
Date: July 29, 2015
Docket Numbers: A14-1970, A15-158
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1994, Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder. In 1995, Appellant pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder. In 2014, Appellant brought a fifth postconviction petition alleging ineffective assistance of…
Date: July 29, 2015
Docket Number: A14-570
Date: July 29, 2015
Docket Number: A15-768
Date: July 29, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: July 22, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1240
Justia Opinion Summary: The district court ordered Father to pay monthly child support. Dakota County was a party to the proceeding because Mother had applied for non-public assistance child support services. Father later retired due to…
Date: July 22, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1730
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1987, after a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. The Supreme Court affirmed. Thereafter, Appellant filed four petitions for postconviction relief and a…
Date: July 22, 2015
Docket Number: A14-2065
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent sustained injuries while employed by Employer. In 2010, Respondent sought workers’ compensation benefits, claiming that as a result of his injury he developed complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and that he…
Date: July 22, 2015
Docket Number: A14-750
Date: July 15, 2015
Docket Number: A14-200
Justia Opinion Summary: Prior to his death and after consulting a lawyer about divorcing Wife, Husband changed the beneficiary on his term life insurance policy from Wife to Respondents, his parents and sister. Less than four months before…
Date: July 15, 2015
Docket Number: A14-98
Date: July 8, 2015
Docket Number: A14-203
Justia Opinion Summary: Prior to his scheduled probation revocation hearing, Probationer moved the district court judge for disqualification or, in the alternative, to direct the chief judge of the district to determine whether the district…
Date: July 8, 2015
Docket Number: A14-726
Justia Opinion Summary: Yer Sumner was injured when she fell while working for Jim Lupient Infiniti. Sumner filed a claim petition for workers’ compensation benefits. Lupient denied primary liability. After Sumner filed her claim petition,…
Date: July 8, 2015
Docket Number: A15-953
Date: July 8, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: July 1, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1189
Justia Opinion Summary: Pursuant to a plea agreement, Defendant pleaded guilty to terroristic threats. The victim filed a request for restitution, including the cost of hiring an employee to help the victim perform his job while his injuries…
Date: July 1, 2015
Docket Number: A13-2044
Justia Opinion Summary: The State acquired three parcels of land for use during construction of Interstate 394. Because the State no longer needed the parcels, it planned to convey the land to the Golden Valley Housing and Redevelopment…
Date: July 1, 2015
Docket Number: A14-995
Date: June 24, 2015
Docket Number: A12-263
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of third-degree criminal sexual conduct for sexually penetrating a member of the parish where he served as a priest. The court of appeals reversed and ordered a new trial,…
Date: June 24, 2015
Docket Number: A13-256
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Respondent was convicted of unintentional second-degree murder. During trial the State sought to introduce evidence, through the admission of evidence of Respondent’s prior bad acts, that Respondent…
Date: June 24, 2015
Docket Number: A14-427
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction, holding that the district court (1) did not err in admitting evidence from Appellant’s cell…
Date: June 24, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: June 17, 2015
Docket Number: A13-2289
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent suffered a significant injury in a motor vehicle accident and was totally disabled for approximately five months. During her period of disability, Respondent was unable to perform most household duties.…
Date: June 17, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1843
Date: June 17, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1901
Date: June 17, 2015
Docket Number: A14-84
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was found guilty of first-degree murder committed for the benefit of a gang and first-degree premeditated murder. Appellant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, and the…
Date: June 17, 2015
Docket Numbers: ADM10-8005, C8-84-1650
Date: June 10, 2015
Docket Number: A13-2337
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was denied a promotion after based on the results of a civil service test conducted by the Richfield Police and Fire Civil Service Commission. Appellant filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the Court of…
Date: June 10, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1602
Date: June 10, 2015
Docket Number: A14-570
Date: June 3, 2015
Docket Number: A12-1107
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder. Appellant waived his right to a sentencing jury. The district court imposed a 420-month sentence, an upward durational departure of 168 months, determining…
Date: June 3, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1863
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm and first-degree felony murder. The district court sentenced Appellant to life in prison with the possibility of release. The Supreme Court…
Date: June 3, 2015
Docket Number: A14-143
Date: June 3, 2015
Docket Number: A15-728
Date: June 3, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: May 27, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: May 20, 2015
Docket Number: A13-2350
Date: May 20, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1076
Date: May 20, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1542
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1988, Appellant pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. Appellant was sentenced to consecutive terms of life in prison and 130 months. This appeal concerned Appellant’s fifth…
Date: May 20, 2015
Docket Number: A14-223
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from a dispute over a construction contract entered into between Contractors Edge, Inc. and the City of Mankato. Contractors Edge sued the City alleging, as relevant to this appeal, breach of contract and…
Date: May 13, 2015
Docket Number: A13-519
Date: May 6, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1772
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of two counts of criminal sexual conduct arising from separate behavioral incidents with separate victims. The district court concluded that Appellant was not subject to lifetime conditional…
Date: May 6, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1640
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder, and one count of burglary. Appellant committed the offenses when he was sixteen years old. The…
Date: May 6, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: April 29, 2015
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: April 29, 2015
Docket Numbers: ADM10-8003, CX-01-926
Date: April 29, 2015
Docket Number: ADM10-8041
Date: April 29, 2015
Docket Number: ADM10-8046
Date: April 29, 2015
Docket Numbers: ADM10-8049, C1-84-2137
Date: April 22, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1586
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was found guilty of failing to register as a predatory offender. The district court imposed a presumptive sentence of sixteen months imprisonment and a ten-year conditional-release term…
Date: April 22, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1624
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder and first-degree felony murder. The district court sentenced Appellant to life imprisonment without the possibility of release on the…
Date: April 22, 2015
Docket Number: A13-2381
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of three counts of murder in connection with the death of his two-year-old niece. While Defendant’s appeal was pending, new evidence was identified. The State then sought, and a grand jury…
Date: April 22, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: April 15, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1520
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree sale of a narcotic drug and was sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment. Appellant later sought postconviction relief seeking to withdraw his guilty plea for lack…
Date: April 15, 2015
Docket Number: A13-789
Justia Opinion Summary: Pursuant to a plea agreement, Defendant pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree aggravated robbery in exchange for the State dismissing several charges. Defendant agreed to receive a…
Date: April 8, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1040
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual conduct. Appellant was sentenced to a term of 144 months. Appellant later filed a petition for postconviction relief seeking to withdraw his guilty plea, alleging that his…
Date: April 8, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1302
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondents brought an action against Appellant, their insurer, after Appellant denied their claim for property damage. The district court dismissed the action as untimely, concluding that although Respondents made…
Date: April 8, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1801
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of release. The conviction arose from a homicide that occurred during an…
Date: April 8, 2015
Docket Number: A13-2112
Justia Opinion Summary: A reporter from the Star Tribune submitted a request for data to the Minnesota Joint Underwriting Association (MJUA), an entity created by the Legislature to provide insurance for people or entitled who are required to…
Date: April 8, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1930
Date: April 8, 2015
Docket Number: A15-350
Date: April 1, 2015
Docket Number: A13-961
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of first-degree murder while committing domestic abuse, second-degree intentional murder, second-degree felony murder, and third-degree murder. The Supreme Court (1)…
Date: April 1, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1692
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and first-degree murder while committing burglary arising from the stabbing death of an eleven-year-old. The Supreme Court affirmed…
Date: April 1, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: March 25, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: March 18, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1713
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder for the benefit of a gang, first-degree premeditated murder, and second-degree intentional murder. The trial court sentenced Defendant to…
Date: March 18, 2015
Docket Number: A13-310
Justia Opinion Summary: RDNT, LLC, which provided assisted living and skilled nursing services, owned a campus consisting of two buildings. RDNT submitted an application to the City of Bloomington for a conditional use permit, seeking to expand…
Date: March 18, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1589
Date: March 18, 2015
Docket Number: A14-2158
Date: March 18, 2015
Docket Number: A14-458
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of release. The Supreme Court affirmed on appeal. Appellant later filed a pro se petition for…
Date: March 18, 2015
Docket Number: A15-259
Date: March 11, 2015
Docket Number: A12-2266
Justia Opinion Summary: Law enforcement officers searched Defendant’s home pursuant to a search warrant and found plastic bags containing methamphetamine. The search warrant was based on information police received from a warrantless search of…
Date: March 11, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1129
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant pled guilty to a fourth-degree controlled substance violation. After finding that Defendant was a career offender under Minn. Stat. 609.1095(4), the district court imposed a sentence of sixty-six months, a…
Date: March 11, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1035
Date: March 11, 2015
Docket Number: A14-117
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder while committing a drive-by shooting. The district court imposed a life sentence with the possibility of release. After the Supreme Court affirmed on…
Date: March 11, 2015
Docket Number: A14-958
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. The Supreme Court affirmed on direct appeal. Defendant subsequently filed four petitions for postconviction relief as…
Date: March 4, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1474
Justia Opinion Summary: After Appellants, several public utilities, sought to condemn a permanent easement across the property of Landowners for a high-voltage transmission line, Landowners elected to compel Appellants to purchase their entire…
Date: March 4, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1497
Date: March 4, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1963
Date: March 4, 2015
Docket Number: A13-898
Justia Opinion Summary: Sysdyne Corporation and Xigent Solutions, LLC provide staff augmentation services to companies in the engineering and information industries. When Brian Rousslang, a former employee of Sysdyne Corporation who was subject…
Date: March 4, 2015
Docket Number: A13-915
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant brought an action against Respondent, a railroad company, in state court seeking damages under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) and the Locomotive Inspection Act (LIA). The jury returned a verdict in…
Date: March 4, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1521
Justia Opinion Summary: Employee fractured her ankle on a staircase at her workplace. A workers’ compensation judge awarded benefits to Employee, concluding that the injuries “arose out of” her employment. The Workers’ Compensation Court of…
Date: March 4, 2015
Docket Numbers: ADM10-8005, C8-84-1650
Date: March 4, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: February 25, 2015
Docket Number: A11-1521
Justia Opinion Summary: When Amos Graves was anticipating losing his home to foreclosure, Michael Wayman persuaded him to enter into a transaction that would purportedly save his home. Graves executed a quitclaim deed in favor of a corporate…
Date: February 25, 2015
Docket Number: A13-337
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of a violation of Minn. Stat. 97B.301, which states that a person may not “take” deer without a license, after he was discovered sitting in a camouflaged blind in an open field, wearing blaze…
Date: February 25, 2015
Docket Number: A14-1553
Date: February 25, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: February 18, 2015
Docket Numbers: A12-1930, A12-2092
Justia Opinion Summary: This case stemmed from the largely fraudulent lending operations of First United Funding, LLC (First United). After First United collapsed, a court-appointed Receiver commenced this action under Minnesota’s Uniform…
Date: February 18, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1382
Date: February 18, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1415
Justia Opinion Summary: William Krebes died in 2009, survived by his wife, Helen Durand. The next year, two of Durand’s children petitioned the district court for the appointment of a conservator for Durand because she lacked clarity of mind to…
Date: February 18, 2015
Docket Number: A14-2158
Date: February 11, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1245
Justia Opinion Summary: Minn. Stat. 169A.20(2) (“the test refusal statute”) makes it a crime for a driver to refuse to request to take a chemical test to detect the presence of alcohol if certain conditions are met. One of those conditions is…
Date: February 11, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1332
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant was convicted of a crime and was sentenced to a stayed sentence of ninety-eight months together with a conditional-release term of five years. Appellant violated his probation, served a portion of his executed…
Date: February 11, 2015
Docket Number: A13-936
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a putative class action against Defendant, a former employee of the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), alleging that Defendant accessed Driver and Vehicle Services records without authorization…
Date: February 11, 2015
Docket Number: A15-137
Date: February 11, 2015
Docket Numbers: ADM10-8049, C1-84-2137
Date: February 4, 2015
Docket Number: A12-2192
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant pleaded guilty and was convicted of first-degree burglary. Two years after Appellant was placed on probation, he appeared before the district court regarding alleged probation violations. Appellant personally…
Date: February 4, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1769
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of premeditated first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. In a postconviction motion, Appellant argued that he was entitled to a new trial based on newly…
Date: February 4, 2015
Docket Number: A13-529
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff’s employment at the Minnesota Office of the Secretary of State (OSS) ended when her contract was not renewed at the end of her probationary period. Plaintiff sued the State, OSS, and two government officials…
Date: February 4, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: January 28, 2015
Docket Number: A13-1605
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of first-degree domestic-abuse murder and two counts of second-degree murder. Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of release. The Supreme Court…
Date: January 28, 2015
Docket Number: List
Date: January 14, 2015
Docket Number: A13-597
Justia Opinion Summary: Upon executing a warrant to search Defendant’s home for stolen property, law enforcement officers found a locked gun safe in the bedroom. Inside the gun safe were a sawed-off shotgun, a full-length shotgun, and a pistol.…
Date: January 14, 2015
Docket Number: A14-703
Date: January 7, 2015
Docket Number: A13-435
Date: January 7, 2015
Docket Number: List
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