Minnesota Supreme Court Opinions

Orders on Petitions for Further Review

Granted

1.  Kimberly Lowry, on behalf of herself and the Proposed Rule 23 Classes, et al., vs. City of Minneapolis, Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, in and for the City of Minneapolis, et al. – A24-0849, A24-19101

Issues Granted: (1) Whether the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) is exempt from purchasing rental licenses where its federal regulator, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), barred it from doing so and where Minnesota Statute section 469.040, subd. 1, limits the fees cities can charge public housing authorities to services that provide a direct physical benefit to the property.  (2) Whether the decision not to purchase licenses was protected by discretionary immunity and official immunity where MPHA complied with its federal regulator’s directive not to purchase licenses.  (3) Whether MPHA can be held liable for not “obtaining” licenses without paying for them.  (4) Whether MPHA can be held liable for damages merely because it did not have licenses, even though the mere absence of licenses did not cause any articulable damage to Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs still received the benefit of public housing.

Denied

2.            City of Jackson vs. Bolton & Menk, Inc. – A25-0135

3.            Demetrius Verros vs. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. – A24-0743

4.            In re the Marriage of: Kari Lynn Volk vs. Martin Douglas Volk – A25-0213

5.            John August Krueger vs. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company –

               A25-0143

6.            Lawrence Merwyn Johnson vs. Jaxon Ray Sundeen – A25-0159

7.            Leonard Deron Seamon vs. State of Minnesota – A24-1478

8.            Michael Arthur Rock vs. State of Minnesota – A24-0475

9.            Reginald Scott Hubbard vs. State of Minnesota – A24-1953

10.          Rigoberto Sanchez Zuniga vs. Saud O Abaalkhail, et al. – A25-1321

11.          State of Minnesota vs. Daniel Earl Fredrickson – A25-0116

12.          State of Minnesota vs. Eugene Eillis Brown, Jr. – A24-1783

13.          State of Minnesota vs. Jeremy Douglas Brandt – A24-1462

14.          State of Minnesota vs. Mylene Vialard – A24-1222

15.          State of Minnesota vs. Richard Allan Mortensen – A24-1394

16.          State of Minnesota vs. Robert Donelle Williams – A24-0329

17.          State of Minnesota vs. Soloman Hosea Tomas – A24-1306

Denied – Filed November 14, 2025

1.         Daniella Marie Chavez vs. Fei Zhan – A24-1875

2.         In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: C.R. and J.R., Parents – A25-0935

3.         State of Minnesota vs. Lorenzo Devon Doby – A24-1374