No. 25-533

Minnesota Deer Farmers Association, et al. v. Sarah Strommen, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or her successor, et al.

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-10-31
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Amici (4) Experienced Counsel
Tags: demographic-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights legal-vocation strict-scrutiny
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2026-01-09
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether pursuing a legal vocation completely prohibited by state law for a demographic group is a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment, and whether strict scrutiny applies when a non-suspect class challenges such a prohibitive law

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether pursuing a legal vocation that is completely prohibited by state law for a demographic group is a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment. 2. When a state recognizes a legal vocation, but later enacts a law that completely prohibits an identified non-suspect demographic class from pursuing that prescribed occupation while allowing others to continue engaging in the occupation, whether strict scrutiny review applies when the non-suspect class challenges the constitutionality of the prohibitive law under the Fourteenth Amendment rather than the rational basis test, as the Eighth Circuit proclaimed.

Docket Entries

2026-01-12
Petition DENIED.
2025-12-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
2025-12-01
Amicus brief of Cato Institute submitted.
2025-12-01
Brief amicus curiae of Cato Institute filed.
2025-12-01
Brief amici curiae of North American Deer Farmers Association, et al. filed. (Distributed)
2025-11-27
Service of The Cavalry Group, LLC submitted.
2025-11-26
Amicus brief of The Cavalry Group, LLC submitted.
2025-11-26
Brief amicus curiae of The Cavalry Group, LLC filed.
2025-11-25
Amicus brief of Members of the United States Congress from the State of Minnesota, Pete Stauber and Michelle Fischbach submitted.
2025-11-25
Brief amici curiae of Members of the United States Congress from the State of Minnesota, et al. filed.
2025-10-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 1, 2025)

Attorneys

Cato Institute
Thomas Arthur BerryCato Institute, Amicus
Thomas Arthur BerryCato Institute, Amicus
Members of the United States Congress from the State of Minnesota, Pete Stauber and Michelle Fischbach
Robert Joseph MuiseThe Muise Law Group, PLLC, Amicus
Robert Joseph MuiseThe Muise Law Group, PLLC, Amicus
Minnesota Deer Farmers Association, et al.
Erick G. KaardalMohrman, Kaardal & Erickson P.A., Petitioner
Erick G. KaardalMohrman, Kaardal & Erickson P.A., Petitioner
North American Deer Farmers Association, et al.
Steven Robert KluzKluzEvans LLC, Amicus
Steven Robert KluzKluzEvans LLC, Amicus
The Cavalry Group, LLC
Alexander PenaltaPenalta & Associates P.A., Amicus
Alexander PenaltaPenalta & Associates P.A., Amicus