Minnesota Supreme Court Opinions

Orders on Petitions for Further Review

Granted

1.  Ames Construction Inc. vs. City of Moorhead – A25-0754

Issues: (1) When a general contractor suffers damage because of reliance on the project owner’s instructions and representations, does Minnesota implied warranty law provide a remedy for the contractor? (2) When site conditions on the project are different from the project owner’s representations, is the general contractor entitled to a contract remedy under Minnesota law for the damages the contractor suffers due to unforeseen differing site conditions?

2.  Pharaoh El-Forever Left-i Amen El vs. State of Minnesota – A26-0125

Issue: Should Minnesota adopt the rationale in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988), to remove undue hardships from pro se prisoners in timely filing documents to the court?

Granted/Stayed

3.  State of Minnesota vs. Frank John Rakowiecki – A24-1040

Issues: (1) Should the Minnesota Supreme Court reject the current test for evaluating the admissibility of alternative-perpetrator evidence in favor of applying the Minnesota Rules of Evidence? and (2) Did the district court reversibly err by finding that the proffered alternative-perpetrator evidence did not inherently tend to connect the alternative perpetrator to the charged offenses because the evidence “ultimately do not create a reasonable doubt as to the defendant’s guilt as they do nothing to negate the specific claims advanced by [the complainant]” against petitioner?

Stayed pending final disposition in State v. Bucholz, A25-0518. 

Denied

4. Babiker E Osman vs. Maggie K Hanson – A25-1317

5. Fasching Ventures LLC vs. Integrative Health, PLLC, Aaron Leet, et al. – A25-1119

6. In the Matter of the Welfare of: S.V.W., Child – A25-1040

7. Kaylen Stiever, et al. vs. Lake County – A25-1183

8.  Mathew Paul Crow vs. State of Minnesota – A25-0872

9. N A Brothers LLC, d/b/a Goddard School of Albertville vs. Heather Werts, et al., Megan Rothstein, Rachel Caballero-Morris, Juliana Marie Biederman, Samantha Martinez – A25-0930, A25-1002, A25-1008

10. Rachel Lynn Hott vs. Nicolette Launa Stefanick, Richard Christopher Barton –

A25-0975

11.  Richard Preston Blackwell vs. City of Richfield Police Department – A26-0094

12. State of Minnesota vs. Aaron Joseph Jesmer – A25-0653

13. State of Minnesota vs. Javier Diaz Garza – A24-0986

14. State of Minnesota vs. John Tyrus Anderson – A23-0613

15. State of Minnesota vs. Joseph Daniel Shaabneh – A25-0773

16. State of Minnesota vs. Michael Brian Bailey – A25-0836

17.  State of Minnesota vs. Ricky Allen Severtson – A25-0879

18. State of Minnesota vs. Shain Alan Freeman – A25-0474

19. State of Minnesota vs. Stevie Ray Samaniego – A25-0517

20. Tanya Hipkins vs. Dakota County Community Development Agency – A25-1118

21. Travis Clay Andersen vs. State of Minnesota – A25-0995

22.  Troy Fischer vs. Bruce G Karevold, et al. – A25-1360

Filed June 12, 2026 - Denied 

1.  State of Minnesota vs. Dhara Hayi Hassan – A25-0360

2.  State of Minnesota vs. Ben Vidal Moreno – A24-1377

 
Filed June 5, 2026 - Denied 

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

2.  In re State of Minnesota vs. Lusvin Jonathan Mutzus Tacatic – A26-0230

3.  State of Minnesota vs. Anthony Dimitri Limogianni – A25-1047

4.  State of Minnesota vs. Daniel Martez Walker – A25-0103

5.  Matthew Charles Larkin vs. Menard, Inc., et al., City of Mankato/Mankato Police  Department (Petition for Accelerated Review) – A26-0577, A26-0798

6.  Matthew Charles Larkin vs. Menard, Inc., et al., City of Mankato/Mankato Police  Department (Petition for Accelerated Review) – A26-0644