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FILED AUGUST 6, 2025

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A23-0863 State of Minnesota, Respondent vs. Logan Hunter Vagle, Appellant.
Court of Appeals.
Minnesota Statutes section 609.667(3) (2024) criminalizes the possession of a firearm without a serial number only when the firearm must have a serial number under federal law.
Reversed and remanded. Justice Paul C. Thissen.
Dissenting, Chief Justice Natalie E. Hudson, Karl C. Procaccini.
Took no part, Justice Theodora K. Gaïtas.


A25-0225 Paula Kay Brunner, Respondent, vs. Post Consumer Brands and Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc., Relators.
Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals.
1. An employee may bring a direct claim under the Workers’ Compensation Act, Minn. Stat. ch. 176 (2024), for medical expenses related to a compensable work injury that the employee’s health insurer covered before a determination was made that the injury is compensable.
2. The Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals erred by reversing the compensation judge’s order under Minn. Stat. § 176.361 (2024), extinguishing the health insurer’s potential intervenor interest after it failed to timely intervene.
Affirmed in part; reversed in part.  Justice Paul C. Thissen.

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