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Looking Back Over Ten Years: 2006 - 2016

Contested Cases
In Re Certificate of Need for
the Sandpiper Pipeline
In Re Gillette Childrens
Specialty Healthcare
In Re Competitive Resource
Acquisition Proposal
In Re Objection of Teresa
Graham
In Re MnDOT Detroit Lakes
Regional Headquarters

State Rulemaking

Key Question Presented

Citation and Link

Should the Public Utilities Commission approve a 616-mile

pipeline from Tioga, North Dakota to Superior, Wisconsin?

OAH 8-2500-31260

Is Minnesotas surcharge on net patient revenues preempted by

federal law?

OAH 8-1800-30119

Was Geronimo Energy's solar energy proposal the lowest-cost

resource for Xcel Energy's near-term generation needs?

OAH 8-2500-30760

Was Mr. Doe, a donor to a ballot committee, entitled to shield his

identity and his employers identity from public disclosure?

OAH 8-4450-23120-2

Was the Department's application of the prevailing wage labor

classifications arbitrary and capricious?

OAH 8-3001-17706-2

Key Question Presented

Citation and Link

In Re Petition for Amendments

to Minn. R. Part 7050

Did the petitioning cities' new evidence call into question the
reasonableness of Minnesota's water quality standards?

OAH-8-2200-33395

In Re Mississippi River
Corridor Critical Area Rules

Did the Department establish the reasonableness of rules

governing development within the Mississippi River Corridor?

OAH 8-9014-33236

Did the Department establish that the cost of complying with the
proposed rules would not exceed $25,000 in the first year?

OAH 8-1800-32056

In Re Rules Governing School

and Child Care Immunizations

Did the agency demonstrate the reasonableness of new

standards for vaccine administration?

OAH 8-0900-30570

In Re Greenhouse Gas Rules

Did the agency have the authority to adopt federal threshold limits
on Greenhouse Gas emissions?

OAH 8-2200-22910-1

On Appeal

Key Question Presented

Citation and Link

In Re Positive Support Rules

B.S. v. Anoka-Hennepin
Public Schools

Do Administrative Law Judges have the authority to set

reasonable time-limits for the presentation of evidence?

Helmberger v. Johnson
Controls, Inc.,

Does the Data Practices Act oblige state contractors to disclose

their data in response to public records requests?

Docket No. A120327

(Minn. 2013)

Does a recording of events on a public bus become "non-public

data" when it is part of an investigation of employee misconduct?

Docket No. A14-1957

(Minn. Ct. App. 2014)

In Re KSTP v.
Metropolitan Council

Docket No. 14-2564

(8th Cir. 2015)