Three Anoka County residents are suing the state's largest school district and its teachers union over what they allege are illegal public subsidies of union political activities.
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(Golden Valley, MN) Three residents and taxpayers of Independent School District 11, the Anoka-Hennepin School District, sued Anoka-Hennepin Education Minnesota and the District to stop the illegal subsidy of union political activities through teacher union business leave. The Plaintiffs are represented by the Upper Midwest Law Center, and the lawsuit was filed in Anoka County District Court.
Governor Walz’s Executive Order 20-81 Violates Minnesota Statutes and Constitution
(Golden Valley, MN) - A group of sixteen Minnesota citizens, small businesses, and churches, represented by the Upper Midwest Law Center, filed a lawsuit Thursday, August 20th, to strike down Governor Tim Walz’s unwarranted and unlawful mask mandate because it violates the Minnesota Constitution, conflicts with Minnesota statutes, creates impossible duties and conflicts for businesses, and forces the petitioners to make political statements against their will.
Current police employment levels are far below the size legally required by City Charter
(Golden Valley, MN) Eight residents and community leaders in Minneapolis, represented by the Upper Midwest Law Center, filed a lawsuit Monday to require the Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Frey take action to secure the safety of citizens amid an exodus of MPD officers.
(St. Paul, MN) – A new lawsuit cites evidence that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office made a deal with a special interest group to pursue its agenda in exchange for the group’s placement of paid lawyers in his public office. Despite an initial lawsuit filed nearly one year ago, Ellison continues to hide public data regarding these privately-funded lawyers and their work, prompting this second lawsuit.
(Golden Valley, MN) – On June 22, 2020, Upper Midwest Law Center, the Minnesota-based public interest law firm, filed its Second Amended Complaint in its case on behalf of two churches (Northland Baptist Church and Living Word Christian Center) and three businesses (Myron’s Cards and Gifts, 18|8 Fine Men’s Salons, and Glow In One Mini Golf) against the Governor’s series of Shut-Down Orders, because of their discriminatory and unconstitutional treatment of small businesses and churches.
Minnesota state employees filed two class action lawsuits seeking a refund for $19 million in union fees illegally confiscated from their paychecks by AFSCME Council 5 and Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE).
Upper Midwest Law Center filed suit on behalf of multiple Minnesota churches and small business owners to strike down Governor Tim Walz’ unilateral shutdown emergency executive orders as unconstitutional under the First, Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit was filed May 6, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Scheff Logging & Trucking, Inc. filed a lawsuit against eco-terrorists who harassed its employees and vandalized several pieces of heavy equipment[i] on a worksite near Cloquett, MN last February. The lawsuit names Defendant Shawn Etsitty and his co-conspirators, as well as the organizations that trained them and funded their activities. The incident is the latest in a string of violent criminal protests by extremists who believe they are justified in breaking the law as a form of environmental-political activism.
The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office is the latest defendant in a string of lawsuits filed across the nation attempting to shed light on Michael Bloomberg’s unethical and illegal scheme to plant lawyers in state AG offices to pursue his political agenda. The suit was filed by Minnesota nonprofit law firm Upper Midwest Law Center and the nonprofit public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C., on behalf of the State of Washington-based Energy Policy Advocates after two separate requests for data under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act were denied by Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office.