41 results for 'judge:"Anderson"'.
J. Anderson affirms the Court of Appeals' decision dismissing the shareholders' buyout claim, finding that while the shareholders' allegations supporting the shareholder status of the bank were sufficient to survive a motion for judgment on the pleadings, the Supreme Court is evenly divided (with J. Thissen taking no part) on the issue of whether beneficial owners of a closely held corporation may initiate an action for a buy-out of their interests. Affirmed in part.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: May 8, 2024, Case #: A22-0777, Categories: Corporations, Fiduciary Duty
J. Anderson affirms the defendant's conviction on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The district court did not abuse its discretion in scheduling the defendant's trial past the six-month deadline available under the Uniform Mandatory Disposition of Detainers Act, since it properly found good cause to continue the trial, namely repeated changes of defense counsel, administrative delays in providing notices to that counsel, and scheduling issues involving that counsel. Affirmed.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: May 8, 2024, Case #: A22-0570, Categories: Sex Offender, Speedy Trial
J. Anderson finds that while the district court did not err in concluding that the defendant had abandoned a privacy interest in genetic information extracted from semen he left at a crime scene and garbage he left in a bin, it abused its discretion in excluding evidence he proffered on the grounds that it did not have an "inherent tendency" to connect an alternative perpetrator to the murder at issue. The evidence proffered was admissible, the district court held the proffer to an unobtainable legal standard, and the error was not harmless. Reversed.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: May 8, 2024, Case #: A22-1823, Categories: Evidence, Murder
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J. Anderson reverses the defendant's convictions for first-degree arson, second-degree burglary and theft of a motor vehicle. The district court abused its discretion in denying the defendant the right to assert a mental-illness defense, since several reports on his mental state indicate that the disturbances leading to his conduct pre-existed his drug use. Reversed.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: May 1, 2024, Case #: A22-1206, Categories: Burglary, Competence, Arson
J. Anderson affirms the district court's dismissal of a postconviction relief petition for murder and attempted murder convictions, finding that the petitioner has not satisfied the newly-discovered-evidence or interests-of-judgment exceptions to the time limit for such petitions. Newly-discovered DNA evidence does not meet that threshold because the petitioner has not met the clear-and-convincing standard to show that it is exculpatory, and he has not otherwise shown that the interests of justice require a new trial. Affirmed.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: April 24, 2024, Case #: A23-0851, Categories: Dna, Evidence, Murder
J. Anderson grants, in part, attorney fees, interest and conditional appeals fees to a company that filed a breach of contract claim in state court but then filed a motion to dismiss to file a new claim in federal court in which the company prevailed. The attorney fees and interest are not recoverable for the case in the state court because of the defendant’s LLC status, but the fees are recoverable in federal court. The requests for fees pertaining to the federal case are granted in full.
Court: USDC Southern District of Texas, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: April 23, 2024, Case #: 3:21cv298, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Civil Procedure, Venue, Attorney Fees
J. Anderson affirms the court of appeals' reversal of the district court's denial of the landlord's parent company's other subsidiaries' motion to dismiss the tenant's claims against them. The tenant forfeited her opportunity to argue that the subsidiaries were sufficiently linked to the landlord to give her standing to bring claims against them. Affirmed.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: April 3, 2024, Case #: A22-0928, Categories: Civil Procedure, Jurisdiction
J. Anderson affirms the tax court's determination that the affordable-housing charity used its property in furtherance of its charitable purpose by leasing that property to low-income people for personal residence, and that the leases therefore did not alter the property's tax-exempt status. Affirmed.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: A23-0737, Categories: Tax, Housing
J. Anderson reverses the Court of Appeals' order reversing the district court's findings that the defendant's arrest warrant had been quashed prior to her arrest and that a search of her person during the arrest was unconstitutional. The good-faith exception to the Minnesota Constitution's exclusionary rule does not apply to evidence obtained during a search on a quashed warrant in this case, since the arrest and search were closely connected to government error and the exclusion of evidence would serve the remedial purpose of the rule, particularly by deterring government misconduct generally.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: March 6, 2024, Case #: A22-1314, Categories: Drug Offender, Evidence
J. Anderson adopts the recommendation of the magistrate judge and dismisses the plaintiffs' complaint without prejudice based on a lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The plaintiffs, who owned an online Etsy store where they resold "collectible sports plates," allege violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in connection with the defendants' trademark enforcement activities, specifically regarding a 1989 plate depicting former NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. However, the court concludes that their allegations are implausible.
Court: USDC Western District of Tennessee , Judge: Anderson, Filed On: March 5, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv1143, NOS: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) - Other Suits, Categories: Trademark, Jurisdiction, Racketeering
J. Anderson affirms the defendant's convictions first-degree premeditated murder and attempted first-degree premeditated murder. The district court did not abuse its discretion in denying motions to strike a juror for cause and for a change of venue, since the juror did not express actual bias and the defendant failed to renew the venue motion following voir dire. The circumstances of the murder, namely the bombing of a clinic and shootings of staff members after repeated statements encouraging the murder of nurses, also support the inference that the defendant intended to kill his victims. Affirmed.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: February 21, 2024, Case #: A22-1340, Categories: Intent, Jury, Murder
J. Anderson affirms the defendant's sentence for third- and fourth-degree sexual conduct, finding that the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in Apprendi v. New Jersey and Blakely v. Washington do not alter the paradigm set in Minnesota courts in State v. Ronquist, which limited a requirement of prosecution by indictment for offenses punishable by life imprisonment to offenses so punishable before the application of sentencing enhancements based on prior convictions. That case's reasoning also exempts cases where lifetime conditional release is a possibility. Affirmed.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: February 7, 2024, Case #: A22-0318, Categories: Criminal Procedure, Sentencing, Sex Offender
J. Anderson partially affirms the defendant's first-degree murder conviction. The district court did not abuse its discretion in prohibiting the defendant from asserting the affirmative defense of entrapment, since his assertion of the defense was untimely and he provided only minimal facts in support of it. His first-degree and second-degree murder convictions are both supported by sufficient evidence, and the district court did not abuse its discretion by denying his request for jury instruction on lesser-included offenses, but his second-degree murder conviction was erroneous since it was a lesser-included offense. Affirmed in part.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: November 22, 2023, Case #: A22-1273, Categories: Criminal Procedure, Murder, Jury Instructions
J. Anderson reinstates the great aunt and uncle's appeal of the dismissal of their petition for permanent third-party custody of their great niece. A guardian ad litem, once discharged by a district court, is no longer a party to a custody action and therefore need not be served with an appeal which does not concern its dismissal or discharge. Reversed.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: November 1, 2023, Case #: A22-0098, Categories: Civil Procedure, Family Law, Guardianship
J. Anderson finds that the individual plaintiffs have not shown that they are similarly situated for purposes of a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act. They will be allowed to submit "additional briefing on the decertification issues," however, in their suit over overtime pay.
Court: USDC Western District of Tennessee , Judge: Anderson, Filed On: September 20, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv1106, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Class Action, Labor
J. Anderson partially reverses the Court of Appeals' decision on a Clean Water Act permit for the proposed copper-nickel mine. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's issuance of the permit was arbitrary and capricious, with several "danger signals" suggesting that it did not adequately consider the potential of a proposed mine to cause or contribute to an exceedance of water quality standards within the Lake Superior watershed. The permit also does not comply with a state law prohibiting discharge of industrial waste to the groundwater "unsaturated zone," but a prohibition on injecting polluted water directly to the groundwater "saturated zone" for long-term storage does not apply. The permit is remanded to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for further proceedings. Reversed in part.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: August 2, 2023, Case #: A19-0112, Categories: Administrative Law, Environment
J. Anderson affirms the Court of Appeals' finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by excluding a body-worn camera recording of an assault victim's statements as inadmissible hearsay. The statements do not qualify as "excited utterances" under an exception to the Minnesota rule of evidence regarding hearsay since no ongoing emergency existed at the time the victim made them and they included descriptions of events that occurred several hours previously or even longer ago.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: July 26, 2023, Case #: A22-0161, Categories: Evidence, Assault, Domestic Violence
J. Anderson affirms the defendant's premeditated murder conviction but reverses his second-degree intentional murder conviction. The district court did not violate the defendant's right to confrontation by preventing defense counsel from telling the jury that a testifying codefendant had taken a plea agreement to avoid a mandatory life sentence, and while it may have erred by not identifying the codefendant as an accomplice in jury instructions, the error did not affect the defendant's substantial rights. As the district court's only error, this issue does not adequately support the defendant's cumulative-effect argument. The second-degree murder conviction, however, was entered in error because it is a lesser-included offense of first-degree murder. Affirmed in part.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Anderson, Filed On: July 19, 2023, Case #: A22-0303, Categories: Confrontation, Murder, Jury Instructions