Minnesota v. API, 63 F.4th 703 (8th Cir. 2023)

Minnesota sued fossil fuel producers in state court for common law fraud and violations of Minnesota’s consumer protection statutes, alleging misrepresentations about the fuel’s effects on the environment.  The companies removed the case to federal court, which remanded it to state court, and the companies appealed. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the remand, noting that all…

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State of Minnesota by Hatch vs. American Family Mutual Insurance Co., 609 N.W.2d 1 (Minn. Ct. App. 2000).

Minnesota Attorney General sued an insurance company alleging violations of consumer protection laws and insurance trade practice regulations. The defendant argued that the Attorney General did not have the authority to bring an action against the insurance company. The court of appeals held, “As the chief law officer of the state, the attorney general possesses…

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Abrahamson v. St. Louis County Sch. Dist., 802 N.W.2d 393, 401 (Minn. Ct. App. 2011)

Attorney General opinion to school board is decisive until a court of competent jurisdiction decides otherwise, is not binding, but “instructive.”

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