No. 20-441

Minnesota Sands, LLC v. County of Winona, Minnesota

Lower Court: Minnesota
Docketed: 2020-10-06
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Experienced Counsel
Tags: commerce-clause discrimination interstate-commerce mineral-rights mining permitting-requirements property-interest property-rights state-regulation takings-clause
Key Terms:
Takings FifthAmendment
Latest Conference: 2021-01-08
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does a state or local government impermissibly discriminate against interstate commerce when it allows a mineral to be mined for all uses that are common locally but prohibits mining the same mineral in the same way for a use that occurs only in other States?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does a state or local government impermissibly discriminate against interstate commerce when it allows a mineral to be mined for all uses that are common locally but prohibits mining the same mineral in the same way for a use that occurs only in other States? 2. Does a mineral estate in land that is subject to local permitting requirements qualify as “property” protected by the Takings Clause—as the Federal Circuit and the courts of three States have held—or do permitting requirements eliminate the existence of a federally protected property interest unless and until the permits are granted, as the Supreme Court of Minnesota held here?

Docket Entries

2021-01-11
Petition DENIED.
2020-12-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
2020-12-15
Reply of petitioner Minnesota Sands, LLC filed. (Distributed)
2020-12-14
Waiver of the 14-day waiting period under 15.5 filed by petitioner.
2020-12-04
Brief of respondent County of Winona, Minnesota in opposition filed.
2020-10-19
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 7, 2020.
2020-10-19
Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Minnesota Sands, LLC.
2020-10-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 5, 2020 to December 7, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-10-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 5, 2020)

Attorneys

County of Winona, Minnesota
Elizabeth Jill VieiraRupp, Anderson, Squires & Waldspurger, P.A., Respondent
Elizabeth Jill VieiraRupp, Anderson, Squires & Waldspurger, P.A., Respondent
Minnesota Sands, LLC
Aaron D. Van OortFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Petitioner
Aaron D. Van OortFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Petitioner