Minnesota 1983 Law

Matthew Locke v. County of Hubbard, et al.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a excessive force civil rights violation. Matthew Locke sued Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes, and Chief Deputy Sheriff Scott Parks under 42 U.S.C. Â§ 1983 and Minnesota law, alleging that the officers used excessive force against him during an oil pipeline protest. The district and official immunity ... More...

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State of Minnesota v. Breanna Rae Enno

<H2> Minneapolis, Minnesota, first-degree drug possession criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant. </h2> Breanna Rae Enno is charged with a first-degree drug-possession crime based on evidence that she possessed several hundred fentanyl pills. She moved to suppress the evidence on the ground that a warrant authorizing a search of her home was not supported by probable cause. ... More...

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Molly Vogt v. MEnd Correctional Case, Inc., et al. </h2?

<h2> Minneapolis, Minnesota 1983 civil rights violation lawyer represented the Plaintiff. </h2> Joshua Vogt was arrested on January 2, 2020. According to the arresting officer's report, Mr. Vogt "behave[d] normally through the entire stop" and "did not appear to be . . . under the influence." Arriving at the Crow Wing County Jail around midnight, Mr. Vogt wa... More...

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Oji Konata Markham v. A. Tolbert, et al.

Minneapolis, Minnesota civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on prisoner civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983. The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted Section 1983 of the U.S. Code to permit prisoners to sue state correctional officials when the conditions of confinement fail to meet constitutional standards of physical security, adequate medic... More...

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Ashley Quinones v. City of Edina, et al.

Minneapolis, Minnesota civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on 1983 civil rights violation theories. On September 7, 2019, Brian Jesus Quinones-Rosario committed suicide by cop. That night, after giving his family cryptic good-byes, he drove off alone. While streaming on Facebook Live, he drove erratically until he caught the attention of ... More...

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Edell Jackson v. City of Brooklyn Center, Jake Wilkins, Stephen Pastor, Joel Iverson, Cooper Gauldin, Ryan Soliday, Kate Deering

Minneapolis, Minnesota personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories under 41 U.S.C. 1983 claiming more than $2 million in damages. ... More...

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Robert Francis Howard v. Ben Weidemann, et al.

Minneapolis, Minnesota plaintiff personal injury lawyer sued Defendants on Civil Rights Act violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983.... More...

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Kaarin Nelson Schaffer,as Trustee for the Next of Kin of George P. Floyd, Jr., Deceased, v. Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, Thomas LaneJ. Alexander Kueng and City of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota civil rights personal injury attorneys represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983, claiming to have suffered injuries and/or damages as a direct result of the wrongful death of George P. Floyd, Jr., Deceased.... More...

$27000000 (10-21-2021 - MN)

Carol Bunker v. Barb Fitzgerald

Minneapolis, Minnesota personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming $6 million in damages. Carol Bunker sued as Trustee for the next-of-kin of Stephanie Rose Bunker. Defendant Barb Fitzgerald was sued acting in her individual capacity as a Beltrami County correctional officer. The claims... More...

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Noah J. McCourt v. City of Bloomington

Minneapolis, MN - Noah J. McCourt sued the City of Bloomington on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983.... More...

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Restaurant Recycling, LLC v. Employers Mutual Casualty Company, d/b/a EMC Insurance Companies; Hamilton Mutual Insurance Company

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.mnd.uscourts.gov/Courthouses/images/Mpls-02.jpg"> </center> New Fashion Pork sued Restaurant Recycling for delivering defective shipments of recycled fat, which New Fashion Pork uses as an ingredient in its swine feed. Restaurant Recycling, in turn, sued Employer Mutual Casualty Company, seeking a declaratory judgment that the ... More...

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Anmarie Calgaro v. St. Louis County, et al.

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.mnd.uscourts.gov/Courthouses/images/Mpls-02.jpg"> </center> Anmarie Calgaro sued several parties alleging violations of her parental rights over one of her minor children under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The district court1 granted the defendants’ dispositive motions and dismissed the complaint with p... More...

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Augustine Pacheco v. Honeywell International, Inc.

This is a class action filed in November 2017 by former Minnesota employees of Honeywell International Inc. who retired before age 65 during the terms of Honeywell’s 2007 and 2010 collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) with Local 1145 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Plaintiffs alleged that Honeywell’s announced plan to terminate early retiree healthcare benefits... More...

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D.M. v. Minnesota State High School League

<center> <img width="300" src="http://www.mnd.uscourts.gov/Courthouses/images/Mpls-02.jpg"> </center> In 2018, two boys sued their state’s high school athletic league and several of itsofficers for declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The boys allegedthat the league violated their rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the FourteenthAmendment to the U.S. Co... More...

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Earl Slinker v. Gundy County, Iowa, et al.

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Zelaido Rivera Garcia, et al. v. Metro Gang Strike Force

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Gabriel A. Storz v. Samuel J. Norlin

<center> <img width="300" src="https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/ephox_images/DSCN4811_8672029681010063961_1431378876508.jpg"> </center> Brittany Karels brought an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Gabriel Storzand Samuel Norlin, in their individual capacities as officers of the Big Lake,Minnesota, Police Department. Karels alleged, inter alia, that the officers usedexcessive force in... More...

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Charter Advanced Services v. Nancy Lange

Charter Communications is a provider of video, internet, and voice communications services. This case arose when Charter underwent a corporate reorganization in order to segregate its Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) services from its regulated wholesale telecommunications services. As part of the reorganization, Charter moved its VoIP accounts from “Charter Fiberlink”... More...

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Catrina Johnson v. City of Minneapolis, et al.

Fearing for her safety, Catrina Johnson called the police. One of the officersresponding to the scene believed that Johnson kicked him. She had not, but Johnsonwas arrested based on that officer’s belief. Charges against Johnson were eventuallydropped and the officer now admits that Johnson did not kick him. Johnson sued the officer and the City of Minneapolis. The district court1 held that ... More...

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Robin Kirkland Neal v. Daniel Ficcadenti

In the late evening hours of June 6, 2012, police officers responded to a call that a witness had seen a man retrieve a gun from a black sedan parked outside of Born’s Bar, a tavern located on Rice Street in Saint Paul, Minnesota. At the scene, the officers discovered a black sedan containing three occupants, none of whom perfectly matched the description of the suspect. After ap... More...

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In re: Target Corporation Customer Data Security Breach Litigation

This case is back to us after our reversal of the certification of a class composed of individuals whose payment card information was compromised as a result of the 2013 Target security breach. See In re Target Corp. Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig., 847 F.3d 608, 613 (8th Cir. 2017). On remand, the district court2 recertified the class after conducting a rigorous analysis. Class m... More...

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tate of Minnesota vs. Gonzalo Galvan <table> <td>

At 5:11 p.m., on September 25, 2015, Galvan called 911 and told the dispatcher that he had “shot [his] family.” Galvan said that he was “giving up” and that his son was alive. Galvan told the dispatcher that he was not armed and that the gun would “be in the trash container.” Galvan also said that Tallman had threatened to take away his son. He hung up the phone... More...

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Michelle Beth Kremer vs. Robbie Michael Kremer <table> <td>

For almost three years, Robbie and Michelle lived together as a couple on a farm in Fulda, Minnesota. Robbie owned and operated a farming enterprise. Michelle had three children from a previous marriage. Robbie told Michelle that he would require an antenuptial agreement if they ever married. Michelle was ambivalent about such an agreement, and the parties did not discuss o... More...

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Tramayne Colfred Williams vs. State of Minnesota <table> <td>

Williams challenges the sentences he received in two criminal cases, one in Otter Tail County and one in Hennepin County. In Otter Tail County, Williams was charged with first-degree aggravated robbery, Minn. Stat. § 609.245, subd. (2016). He agreed to plead guilty to that charge on the condition that, assuming his criminal-history score was five, he would be sentenced to 84... More...

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State of Minnesota vs. Ryan David Petersen

The facts underlying the murder of Chase Passauer are not in dispute. Ryan Petersen hired D.A., from Northstar Criminal Defense, in March 2016, to represent him for criminal and civil matters. Petersen agreed to pay a flat fee of $10,000 for D.A.’s services, and he had paid a total of $7,000 to D.A. as of April 7, 2016, when Petersen terminated D.A.’s representation. <b... More...

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Thomas J. Litterer and Mary L. Litterer vs. Rushmore Loan Management Services, LLC <table> <td>

This case requires us to determine the legal relationship between the recording deadline for a lis pendens in Minn. Stat. § 582.043, subd. 7(b), and the excusable neglect provision in Minn. R. Civ. P. 6.02. Enacted by the Legislature in 2013, Minn. Stat. § 582.043 (2016) requires mortgage servicers to notify mortgagors of loss mitigation options before referring the mortgage... More...

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Paul Batsche v. Thomas E. Price

Appellants are trustees of the Twin City Pipe Trades Welfare Fund, which operates a self-insured, self-administered group health plan. In December 2014, the Fund paid a $762,663.90 fee to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under the transitional reinsurance program in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). See 42 U.S.C. § 18061(b)(1)(A) (“health ins... More...

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James J. Thole v. U.S. Bank National Association

Named plaintiffs James Thole and Sherry Smith (collectively, “plaintiffs”)1 brought a putative class action against U.S. Bank, N.A. (“U.S. Bank”); U.S. Bancorp; and multiple U.S. Bancorp directors (collectively, “defendants”),2 challenging the defendants’ management of a defined benefit pension plan (“Plan” or “U.S. Bank Pension Plan”) from September 30, 2007,... More...

$0 (10-12-2017 - MN)

Thomas Wartman v. United Food and Commercial

Thomas B. Wartman, Victoria’s Market, LLC; Glen Lake’s Market, LLC; ART, LLC; and Thomas W. Wartman (Plaintiffs) filed suit under 29 U.S.C. § 187. Plaintiffs alleged that United Food and Commercial Workers Local 653 (the Union) had engaged in unfair labor practices, in violation of § 8(b)(4) of the National Labor Relations Act (the Act), 29 U.S.C. § 158(b)(4). Plaintiffs app... More...

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Jennifer Heglund v. City of Grand Rapids

Jennifer Heglund and her husband Jamie Heglund sued numerous Minnesota cities and counties, state officials, and hundreds of John and Jane Does, alleging that police officers had improperly accessed their private information in the State’s driver’s license database. The Heglunds later amended their complaint to replace one of the John Does with Frank Scherf, the former Grand Ra... More...

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Jassmine D. Adams v. Toyota Motor Corporation

On June 10, 2006, Koua Fong Lee was driving his 1996 Toyota Camry on the interstate. When Lee exited the interstate, the Camry failed to come to a stop and rear-ended another car waiting at a stoplight, killing three of the other car’s five passengers and injuring others, including those in Lee’s vehicle. Lee was convicted of vehicular homicide, but his conviction was vacated a... More...

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State of Minnesota vs. Ralph Joseph Boecker <table> <td>

The facts here are undisputed. In 1997, Boecker caused a car accident that resulted in another driver suffering serious injuries. When the accident occurred, Boecker had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.13 and no valid driver’s license. Following this accident, Boecker pleaded guilty to one count of criminal vehicular operation resulting in substantial bodily harm. See ... More...

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State of Minnesota vs. Leona Rose deLottinville

This case presents the question of whether police, having obtained an arrest warrant, are required by the United States Constitution or the Minnesota Constitution to obtain a search warrant to enter a third party’s home to arrest the subject of the arrest warrant. Because we conclude that a search warrant is not required, we affirm. In 2015, appellant Leona Rose deLottinvill... More...

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State of Minnesota vs. Adam John Lilienthal <table> <td>

Adam Lilienthal and Scott Yorek met through a mutual friend in February 2014. After learning that Yorek needed a place to stay, Lilienthal agreed to rent Yorek a room in his house in Andover. Yorek moved into Lilienthal’s house later that month. Lilienthal and Yorek agreed that Yorek would pay $100 per week in rent, though disputes later arose as to whether and how timely ... More...

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State of Minnesota vs. Neal Curtis Zumberge

A Ramsey County jury found appellant Neal Zumberge guilty of first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder, second-degree murder, and second-degree attempted murder, for fatally shooting Todd Stevens and wounding Jennifer Cleven on May 5, 2014. The district court sentenced Zumberge to consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of release for the first-... More...

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Junious Taylor, Jr. vs. State of Minnesota

On October 6, 2013, Taylor’s then-girlfriend S.P. reported to the police that, while Taylor was intoxicated, he wrestled her to the ground, threw her phone, kicked her in the abdomen several times, grabbed her from behind, and pinched her face. The State charged Taylor with felony domestic assault under Minn. Stat. § 609.2242, subd. 4 (2014). Taylor pleaded guilty to the ... More...

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State of Minnesota vs. Debra Lee Fawcett

The State charged appellant Debra Fawcett with criminal vehicular operation, Minn. Stat. § 609.21, subd. 1(2) (2012).1 Fawcett moved to suppress “all evidence of the presence of drugs” found in her blood, arguing that the warrant application and supporting affidavit failed to provide a lawful basis to test her blood for controlled substances. The district court granted F... More...

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State of Minnesota vs. Latimothy Fleming

Appellant August Latimothy Fleming pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by an ineligible person and second-degree assault. The district court imposed an upward durational sentencing departure for the possession conviction because Fleming fired the gun six times in a park filled with children, thereby creating a greater-than-normal danger to the safety of other people. Fl... More...

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J.D. Donovan, Inc., et al., vs. Minnesota Department of Transportation, et al.

This consolidated appeal involves the scope of the Minnesota Prevailing Wage Act, Minn. Stat. §§ 177.41–.44 (2014), as applied to hauling activities for state highway projects. The question presented is whether truck drivers hauling asphalt cement from a commercial oil refinery to a contractor’s facility are performing “work under a contract” within the meaning of Mi... More...

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State of Minnesota vs. Byron David Smith

Byron David Smith was convicted of two counts of first-degree premeditated murder related to the shooting deaths of two people. On direct appeal, Smith argues that the district court committed four types of error. The State, in turn, argues that the district court committed error in determining the appropriate restitution for the victims’ families. We affirm the conviction... More...

$0 (03-11-2016 - MN)