Where a plaintiff who uses a wheelchair brought claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Minnesota Human Rights Act against the owner of a restaurant, claiming that the parking lot did not have the required number of accessible parking ...

Tagged with: Accessible Parking ADA Claim civil practice Standing

  Where a state resident filed a declaratory judgment action against the governor and lieutenant governor, challenging the governor’s authority to appoint the lieutenant governor, the state resident had standing to proceed as a taxpayer, and the governor had plenary ...

Tagged with: Authority Civil Official Appointment Standing

  Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of its petition for declaratory and injunctive relief. Plaintiff previously held a contract to provide computer services to defendant. Plaintiff filed a bid-protest letter to defendant’s request for proposal for a replacement contract, arguing that ...

Tagged with: Administrative Government Contracts Injunctive Relief Standing

  Defendant sought declaratory and injunctive relief from a municipal ordinance banning ownership of pit bulls. The district court dismissed defendant’s claims for lack of standing because she did not currently own a banned dog or reside in the municipality, ...

Tagged with: Injunctive and Declaratory Relief Municipal Ordinance Banning Dogs Standing

  Where plaintiffs sought a declaration that they were entitled to bring a wrongful-death action as the equitable adoptive parents of an  incapacitated person, the doctrine of equitable adoption is solely for the benefit of the child, so adoptive parents ...

Tagged with: Equitable Adoption Negligence Standing wrongful death

  Where a plaintiff sued his former employer claiming that he was terminated in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and Minnesota Whistleblower Act as retaliation for his legal action against the company, summary judgment for the defendants is ...

Tagged with: Fair Labor Standards Act independent contractor Standing Torts

Where appellants as trustees of a revocable trust challenged the adverse grant of partial summary judgment, the trial court did not err in denying the appellants’ motion to transfer venue because forum-selection clauses designated the venue for litigation in connection ...

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Where decedent’s children challenged the grant of summary judgment to decedent’s second wife in a quiet-title action, the compulsory counterclaim rule did not require the wife to file her current action in a previous stage of the litigation, and the ...

Tagged with: Compulsory Counterclaim Quiet Title Real Property Standing

Where a law firm challenged a trial court’s grant of judgment on the pleadings, which dismissed its petition for accounting, the judgment is reversed because the petition provided reasonable notice of the nature and the extent of the firm’s claim ...

Tagged with: civil practice Notice Petition for Accounting Standing

Where plaintiffs brought a class action against the state and governor of Missouri and officials of the state’s public-defender system arguing that the state was failing to meet its obligations to provide indigent criminal defendants with meaningful representation, the state ...

Tagged with: Administrative civil practice ERISA Indigent Defendants Right To Counsel Sovereign Immunity Standing ‘Cross-Plan Offsetting’

Where out-of-network medical providers, who brought class-action cases litigating under ERISA for their patients against a health-insurance plan administrator, argued that the relevant plan documents did not authorize the administrator to engage in cross-plan offsetting, a doctor was authorized to ...

Tagged with: Administrative ERISA Standing ‘Cross-Plan Offsetting’