Minnesota Supreme Court Opinions

Orders on Petitions for Further Review

Granted

1.  In re Fairview Health Services, Hamid Abbasi vs. Fairview Health Services – A25-1938

Issue: Did the court of appeals err in interpreting Minnesota Statute § 145.64, subd. 1(b), by compelling Fairview to produce confidential non-patient-identified aggregate trend data on medical error and iatrogenic injury?

2.  Matt Monoleetio Vogel vs. State of Minnesota – A25-0694

Issue: Where petitioner was convicted of first-degree driving while impaired but did not have both a prior impaired driving conviction and a prior impaired driving-related loss of license, whether the district court erred when it found that only one incident is required under the definition of “qualified prior impaired driving incident.”

3.  Shawnnise Watkins vs. Minnesota Department of Human Services – A25-0869

Issue: Whether Minn. Stat. § 299C.095, subd. 2(e), which mandates destruction of certain juvenile criminal history data at age 28, when read together with Minn. Stat. § 260B.171 governing juvenile court records, limits DHS’s authority under Minn. Stat. §§ 245C.08 and 245C.14 to permanently disqualify an individual based on the same juvenile adjudication after statutory destruction date.

Granted/Stayed

4.  In the Matter of the Denial of Line of Duty Death Benefits for Dallas Edeburn – A25-0661

Issue: Does the plain language of Minnesota Statutes section 299A.41, subdivision 3, exclude deaths from natural causes from the definition of “killed in the line of duty”?

Stayed Pending Final Disposition in In re Groebner, No. A24-1410.

5.  State of Minnesota vs. Michael Patrick Daly – A24-1955

Issue: Where law enforcement does not have probable cause search a person’s vehicle following a routine traffic stop, yet orders the person out so they can search it, and the person repeatedly tries to assert their constitutional rights against the illegal search only to be arrested for obstructing legal process, should evidence found as a result of law enforcement’s unlawful conduct be suppressed?

Stayed Pending Final Disposition in State v. Engel, A24-0271.

Denied 

6.  Debra Ann Edwards, Frederick Ledin vs. Nancy Torres, Garey Ledin – A26-0192

7.  Edgar C. Ray, et al. vs. Timothy Roen Kraft, aka T. Roen Kraft aka Roen Kraft, Mark Hoiseth, et al. – A25-0797

8.  In re Matthew Charles Larkin, Matthew Charles Larkin vs. Menard, Inc., et al., City of Mankato / Mankato Police Department – A26-0211

9.  In Re Petition for Restoration of Rights of Brandon Michael Tamm – A25-0721

10.   Jacob William Kinn vs. State of Minnesota – A25-0638

11.  Jacqueline Dee Munoz vs. Laurence E. Henderson, Henderson & Henderson Holdings, LLC – A26-0194

12.   Joseph Thomas Gardner vs. HealthPartners, Inc. – A26-0085

13.  State of Minnesota vs. Ajee Arylce King – A24-1927

14.  State of Minnesota vs. Dale Duane Fitch – A25-0115

15.  State of Minnesota vs. Dean Marty Oelkers – A25-0065

16.  State of Minnesota vs. Dustin Roy Hentges – A25-0218

17.  State of Minnesota vs. Edward Alexander Cox – A25-0055

18.  State of Minnesota vs. Irineo Ricardo-Cosme – A24-1794

19.  State of Minnesota vs. Jaisden Harold-Dru Hanners – A25-0144

20.  State of Minnesota vs. Jotee Marga Camadaa – A25-0121

21.  State of Minnesota vs. Mickela Joy Vredenburg – A25-0176

22.  State of Minnesota vs. Nelson Randolph, III – A25-0562

23.  State of Minnesota vs. Rashad Lavonte Lenear – A25-0521

24.  State of Minnesota, by its Attorney General, Keith Ellison vs. American Petroleum Institute, Exxon Mobil Corporation, et al., Koch Industries, Inc., et al. – A25-0407, A25-0408, A25-0410

25.  Tamer K. Embaby vs. Department of Treasury, Department of Employment and Economic Development – A25-0544 

Filed April 10, 2026 

1.  In re Obioma Ogu, MPLP East Side LLC vs. Obioma Ogu – A26-0500

2.  In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: Andrew Stephen Williams – A25-2081

3.  Shields Law Group, LLC, Spencer Shields vs. Gustafson Gluek PLLC, et al., Watts Guerra LLP, et al. – A25-0537

4.  State of Minnesota vs. Cinque Daprice Owens – A25-0639

5.  State of Minnesota vs. Joshua Bennett Byker – A25-0499

6.  Steven Robert Anderson vs. State of Minnesota – A25-0605

7. Travis Clay Andersen vs. State of Minnesota – A25-1531 

Filed April 3, 2026 

1.  State of Minnesota vs. DeAngelo Cortez Ransom – A25-0234

2.  State of Minnesota vs. Juan Jose Sanchez Andrade – A24-2018