Supreme Court of Minnesota· 9/5/2008

Clark v. Pawlenty

Citations

755 N.W.2d 293
2008 Minn. LEXIS 488
2008 WL 4117219

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holding that the Minnesota Constitution does not bar a supreme court justice “from seeking election to the judicial office to which she was appointed” by the governor
noting that “[t]he processes about which petitioners complain are not new,” and rejecting an untimely challenge to an alleged “systemic problem” (internal quotation marks omitted)
explaining that under Article VI, Section 8, “an appointed judge will serve at least one year before the seat to which he or she was appointed appears on the ballot”
declining to interpret the word \successor\ differently in two different sections of the Minnesota Constitution
applying laches to bar election challenge where \[t]he processes about which petitioners complain are not new\
applying laches to bar election challenge where \[t]he processes about which petitioners complain are not new\

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Judges: Per Curiam

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