Gov. Tim Pawlenty filed a brief on Thursday in support of the lawsuit against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). The suit, currently before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, includes 20 states that are challenging the mandate that all Americans must have health insurance by 2014.
As Minnesota faces a likely recount between gubernatorial candidates Mark Dayton and Tom Emmer, memories surface of the prolonged recount in the state’s 2008 U.S. Senate race between Sen. Al Franken and Norm Coleman. As in 2008, a delayed decision on the governor’s race would have wide repercussions at both the local and national levels. The state legislature, which flipped to the GOP on Tuesday, could quickly pass conservative bills while a Democratic governor waits in limbo. All the while, Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty finds himself in a unique posturing position before his probable bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
In 19 years together, Duane Gajewski and Doug Benson have been married in two states and Canada, and had a civil union in Vermont. “We’re hoping just in case one of those marriages is recognized, we’ll be safe,” said Gajewski. The pair is among three couples suing the state of Minnesota for the right to marry.
Following the passage of health care reform in Congress, Gov. Tim Pawlenty urged Attorney General Lori Swanson to file suit on behalf of the state of Minnesota to block provisions of…
Three same-sex couples were denied marriage licenses at the Hennepin County Courthouse on Friday, laying the groundwork for a lawsuit to repeal Minnesota’s Defense of Marriage Act. DOMA, passed in 1997, prohibits same-sex couples from marrying and defines marriage as between two members of the opposite sex.
Hennepin County commissioners learned Thursday that they’ll have to pay $500,000 to stop the stink from the county’s downtown garbage burner from entering the new, county-sales-tax-funded, open-air Minnesota Twins stadium next door. It’s exactly the kind of thing environmental activist Leslie Davis predicted when he sued for further environmental study of the Twins’ ballpark plans.
As many as 10 same-sex couples will soon file a lawsuit against the state of Minnesota for the right to marry. It’s a controversial move, one that some in the gay and lesbian community think is ill-timed, but those couples who are putting their money on the line and their lives under a microscope say the time is always right to fight for equality.
I sat down with Doug Benson, founder of the organization Marry Me Minnesota, a nonprofit group that formed last year and that is helping to organize the lawsuit. Benson and his partner are also part of the planned lawsuit.
Wal-Mart “saved money” and — to further shoplift from the discount retail mega-chain’s current advertising slogan — its executives will probably “live better” after today’s $54.3 million settlement of a Minnesota class action lawsuit. The Dakota County District Court…
The Al Franken for Senate campaign announced today it is suing Ramsey County in hopes that a favorable court ruling will compel all Minnesota counties to release the names of voters whose absentee ballots were rejected in last week’s election. Attorney Marc Elias said the campaign may present cases of wrongly rejected absentee ballots to the newly-formed canvassing board that will oversee the recount in the U.S. Senate race between Franken and U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman.
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Judge Barbara Neilson dismissed half of Sen. Norm Coleman’s complaint against Al Franken on Monday ruling that Franken’s claim that Coleman lived in “an almost rent-free apartment” paid for by friend Jeff Larson did not violate Minnesota law. Coleman…
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