Minnesota Supreme Court Opinions

Orders on Petitions for Further Review

Granted – Certified Question from U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota

1.  Ballast Advisors, LLC vs. Scott A. Peterson, et al.; Scott A. Peterson, vs. Ballast    Advisors, LLC, et al. – A26-1797

Issue: Is a restrictive covenant unenforceable as against public policy when the restrictive covenant bars a financial advisor from continuing to provide services to a client with whom the financial advisor is in a fiduciary relationship for a period of time after the financial advisor leaves an employer, even when the financial advisor has not solicited the client or otherwise influenced the client’s decision to continue to seek the financial advisor’s services?

Granted

2.  David Lindstrom, Trustee of the Gladys B Lindstrom Living Trust, et al. vs. County of Scott – A26-0067

Issues: (1) When a condemning authority seeks to eliminate a jury’s award of cost-to-cure damages, must the landowner prove not only the reasonable cost of the cure but also the hypothetical diminution in market value that would exist if the property were left uncured? (2) May a court grant judgment as a matter of law eliminating an expressly identified component of a condemnation jury’s just-compensation verdict based on the absence of evidence concerning a hypothetical uncured condition when the condemning authority bore no burden to prove that the jury’s award exceeded the diminution in value?

Vacate/Remand

3.  State of Minnesota vs. Finest Andre Nickens – A25-0934

Issue: Whether Minn. Stat. § 243.166 may constitutionally require predatory-offender registration when the only charged predatory offense was added after the defendant pleaded not guilty and invoked his right to trial, the jury acquitted him of that offense, and the sole conviction was a non-registerable misdemeanor whose elements did not require proof of the predatory facts.

Stay lifted, portion of the decision of the court of appeals in State v. Nickens, No. A25-0934, 2026 WL 1129569 (Minn. App. April 27, 2026), holding that it did not violate petitioner’s right to substantive due process to require him to register as a predatory offender vacated, and case remanded to the court of appeals for reconsideration of petitioner’s substantive due process claim in light of Siegel v. Evans, 38 N.W.3d 774 (Minn. 2026).

Denied

4.  American Steel Carports INC. vs. Matthew Charles Larkin – A26-1378

5.  Anthony and Ruby Ngo vs. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company – A25-2173

6.  Dametria White, et al., as co-trustees for the next-of-kin of Helayne Bass, deceased vs. Park Nicollet Clinic – A25-0729

7.  In re Matthew Charles Larkin – A26-1312

8.  In re the Marriage of: Abdihafid Hariri Hassan Yusuf vs. Neama Omar Y Al Somali – A25-1979

9.  In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of: Anthony James Moore – A25-2113

10.  Josh Campion, et al. vs. National Collegiate Athletics Association, The Big Ten Conference, Inc., The University of Minnesota – A25-1838

11.  Lake West Development LLC vs. City of Wayzata – A25-2233

12.  Mai Vu Vang vs. State of Minnesota – A25-1835

13.  Matthew Charles Larkin vs. XCEL Energy – A26-1313

14.  Solvay Hospice House vs. Mark R. Hollis – A25-2127

15.  State of Minnesota vs. Alex Brody Nettestad – A25-1141

16.  State of Minnesota vs. Anthony Joseph Flora – A25-1744

17.  State of Minnesota vs. Bradley Loren Owens – A25-1110

18.  State of Minnesota vs. David Lee Kingbird – A25-1579

19.  State of Minnesota vs. Jeffrey William Boysen – A25-1387

20.  State of Minnesota vs. Jhonathan Jontae Robinson – A25-0208

21.  State of Minnesota vs. Kayvon Julian Madison – A25-1298

22.  State of Minnesota vs. Kelli Jo Torres – A25-1780

23.  State of Minnesota vs. Richard Vinje Rean – A25-1699

Denied – Filed October 16, 2026

1.  Channel Partners Capital, LLC vs. The Jon Smith Group, LLC, Jonathan Ford – A25-1833

2.  Erik Schmid vs. Greenhaven Elementary, Department of Employment and Economic Development – A25-1795

3.  In the Marriage of: Kathryn Marie Larson vs. Keith Norman Marohn, County of Isanti – A25-1400

4.  State of Minnesota vs. Keira Ann Marie Conkling – A25-1391

Denied – Filed October 9, 2026

1.  In re the Estate of Stephen Singer, Deceased – A25-1933

2.  In the Matter of the Welfare of the Children of: A.P.J., Parent –A26-1130

3.  In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child(ren) of: D.K.W. and J.L.C., Parents – A26-0615

4.  In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child(ren) of: T.L.J., Parent – A26-0346

5.  J.I. vs. Minnesota Department of Health – A26-0546

6.  Kelly Sheehy vs. Mayo Clinic Hospital-Rochester, et al. – A25-1536