Appellate Courts will begin transmitting all notices, orders, and opinions electronically.
Beginning no later than July 1, 2011, the appellate courts will send notices, orders, opinions, and correspondence related to pending cases to attorneys in those cases by e-mail rather than postal mail. All attorneys with pending appellate cases who have not already registered an e-mail address should do so immediately. Unrepresented parties with pending appellate cases may also participate in this e-notification system by registering an e-mail address. Please visit the Clerk of Appellate Courts page for instructions on how to register your e-mail address.
Opinion Policies
Minnesota Court of Appeals opinions are issued weekly and are available to the public at 10 a.m. CST/CDT every Monday.
On Wednesday of every week, the Court of Appeals will mail a notice that informs counsel, pro se parties, and court personnel associated with a case that an opinion will be released the following Monday. Opinions are available online or by visiting the Clerk of Appellate Courts, 305 Minnesota Judicial Center, 25 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Paul, after the Monday release time. Copies of the opinions are mailed to involved parties on Mondays.
In certain time-sensitive cases, the Court of Appeals may issue opinions on a business day other than Monday. In these instances, involved parties will be contacted just prior to the special release.
Please visit the Minnesota State Law Library's Appellate Opinions Archive for previously released Court of Appeals Opinions.
Published Opinions
By statute, the Court of Appeals issues a published opinion only in the most important and complex cases. Published opinions include an extensive analysis of the facts and law. They will be considered and used by courts faced with similar issues in the future, and they are published in books found in most law libraries.
DECISIONS OF THE COURT OF APPEALS
FILED Monday, September 28, 2020
A19-1554 State of Minnesota, Respondent, vs. Carlos Ramone Sargent, Appellant.
Cass County District Court, Hon. Charles D. Halverson.
An officer may expand the scope of a traffic stop to investigate a suspected pretrial-release violation if the expansion is reasonable as defined in Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S. Ct. 1868 (1968), that is, if the government interest in public safety outweighs the resulting intrusion on the suspect’s individual rights and the expansion is supported by reasonable suspicion.
Affirmed. Judge Michelle A. Larkin.
A19-1944 N.H., Respondent, and Rebecca Lucero, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, plaintiff-intervenor,
Respondent, vs. Anoka-Hennepin School District No. 11, Appellant.
Anoka County District Court, Hon. Jenny Walker Jasper.
A transgender high-school student who is denied use of a locker room that is available to students of the gender with which the student identifies and to which the student has socially transitioned states a claim upon which relief can be granted of sexual-orientation discrimination under Minn. Stat. § 363A.13, subd. 1 (2018).The intermediate scrutiny standard applies to an equal-protection claim of sexual-orientation discrimination under article I, section 2 of the Minnesota constitution. A transgender high-school student who is denied use of a locker room that is available to students of the gender with which the student identifies and to which the student has socially transitioned states a claim upon which relief can be granted of an equal-protection violation under article I, section 2 of the Minnesota Constitution.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded. Certified questions answered, affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. Judge Peter M. Reyes, Jr.
Dissenting, Judge Matthew E. Johnson.
Unpublished Opinions
Unpublished opinions are issued in cases that are less complicated, that involve legal issues that have already been decided in published opinions, or that will affect only the parties to that particular case. These opinions are usually shorter, do not contain extensive discussion of the facts, and are not generally relied on by other courts to the same degree as published opinions.
UNPUBLISHED OPINIONS
FILED Monday, September 28, 2020
Pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 480A.08, subd. 3 (2018)
1.
A20-0093
In re: Guardianship of the Person of Roseann Lynn Broome (a.k.a. Bonaparte).
Affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded. Judge Kevin G. Ross.
Chisago County District Court, Hon. Robert G. Rancourt.
2.
A19-2030
Michael A. Zimmer, Appellant, vs. Michael T. Schulenberg, M.D., et al., Defendants,
Howard Kornfeld, M.D., et al., Respondents.
Affirmed. Judge Kevin G. Ross.
Carver County District Court, Hon. Janet L. Barke Cain.
3.
A20-0111
Katherine Marie Doornbos, Appellant, vs. Kyle Justice Yaedke, Respondent.
Affirmed. Judge Diane B. Bratvold.
Dakota County District Court, Hon. Arlene Perkkio.
4.
A19-2057
Jason Charles Cibulka, petitioner, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent.
Reversed. Judge Diane B. Bratvold.
Washington County District Court, Hon. Richard C. Ilkka.
5.
A19-1905
In re the Marriage of: Jill Nicole Prokop, petitioner, Respondent, vs. Christopher Jon
Prokop, Appellant.
Affirmed. Judge Jeanne M. Cochran.
Dakota County District Court, Hon. Christopher J. Lehmann.
Order Opinions
Cases that involve a few simple issues may be decided by order opinions, which include little discussion of the facts of the case and a brief analysis of the laws that are involved.
RECENT ORDER OPINIONS
September 28, 2020
NO ORDER OPINIONS FILED
Special Release Opinions
NO SPECIAL RELEASE OPINIONS FILED
Opinion Sets
Opinion sets contain all published, unpublished, and order opinions. The sets are compressed into files that must be unpacked before opening them.
Opinion Sets For Opinions
Filed Monday, September 28, 2020
Opinion Set in a Zipped Word Document Format
- Click the above link.
- Save the unzipped file to your computer.
- Choose the "Open" option on the Download Complete screen.
- Extract the files to a location of your choice.
- Open the extracted file.
Opinion Set in a Zipped Rich Text Format
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- Choose the "Open" option on the Download Complete screen.
- Extract the files to a location of your choice.
- Open the extracted file.