OPINIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT

FILED Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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A24-0457   In re Petition for Disciplinary Action against Stephen J. Baird, a Minnesota Attorney, Registration No. 0398840.
          1. An attorney who is licensed to practice law and is practicing law in Minnesota at the time the Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility learns that the attorney has been publicly disciplined or is subject to public disciplinary charges in another jurisdiction is subject to reciprocal discipline under Rule 12(d), Rules on Lawyers Professional Responsibility.
          2. Reciprocal discipline of disbarment under Rule 12(d), Rules on Lawyers Professional Responsibility, is appropriate where an attorney was disbarred three times and suspended for more than six months by another jurisdiction for failing to act with reasonable diligence and promptness, failing to reasonably communicate regarding clients’ cases and to respond to clients’ reasonable requests for information, failing to keep clients reasonably informed about the status of a matter, providing misinformation about the statuses of clients’ cases, failing to refund unused fees or return clients’ files and records after the termination of representation, failing to take remedial action with respect to an employee’s lack of reasonable diligence and communication, and failing to take reasonable steps to protect clients’ interests by making timely transitions of their cases to subsequent counsel.
          Disbarred. Per Curiam. A24-1439  In re Petition for Disciplinary Action against Bradley J. Haddy, a Minnesota Attorney, Registration No. 0387503.
          Suspended. Justice Gordon L. Moore, III.
  ADM09-8009   In re General Rules of Practice of the District Courts.
ADM10-8049   In re General Rules of Criminal Procedure.
          Order Promulgating Amendments to the Minnesota General Rules of Practice for the District Courts and the Minnesota Rules of Criminal Procedure effective July 1, 2025.

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ORDERS ON PETITIONS FOR FURTHER REVIEW

FILED Wednesday, March 26, 2025

(Petitioner indicated in Italic Type)

 
Granted
 
1.         Melissa Ann Lorsung vs. Commissioner of Public Safety – A24-0540
 
Issue Granted:  Was it error for the court of appeals to rewrite the reasonable, articulable suspicion standard by disregarding evidence obtained before a satisfactory [horizontal gaze nystagmus test] and prohibit gathering additional evidence?
 
 
Granted/Stayed
 
2.         State of Minnesota vs. Mohammed Altigani Tabit Gouma – A24-0331
 
Issue:  Is Gouma guilty of refusal to submit to chemical testing where the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Gouma intended to refuse the chemical test or his actual unwillingness to participate in the testing process where Gouma’s words and conduct contradicted that intent, where Gouma disclosed a medical issue which prevented him from providing an adequate breath sample, and where he offered to take a blood test?
 
Stayed Pending Final Disposition in State v. Schmeichel, No. A23-1905
 
 
Denied
 
3.            In re the Marriage of:  Oluwafunbi Ige Olusina vs. Ann Oludolapo Olusina – A24-0468
4.            In re the Marriage of: Craig Jerald Mackey vs. Beth Ann Mackey – A23-1228
5.            Matthew Pasulka, et al. vs. James Mulvahill, et al. – A24-1505
6.            Michael Walker vs. State of Minnesota Department of Corrections – A24-0502
7.            Rebecca L Bersch vs. Sharon K Hills – A24-0550
8.            State of Minnesota vs. Bobby James Jackson – A24-0623
9.            State of Minnesota vs. Carmen Marie Burth – A23-0004
10.          State of Minnesota vs. Dakota Daniel Thorstenson – A24-0014
11.          State of Minnesota vs. Daquan Christopher Savon Ledbetter – A23-1593
12.          State of Minnesota vs. James Robert Hess – A23-1596
13.          State of Minnesota vs. Michael Drew Williams – A24-0061
14.          State of Minnesota vs. Oluwatobi Samson Taiwo – A24-0184
15.          State of Minnesota vs. Scott Wayne Erickson – A24-0115
16.          State of Minnesota vs. Scott Wayne Erickson – A24-0117