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Supreme Court of Minnesota· 3/19/2014

State v. Melchert-Dinkel

Citations

  • 844 N.W.2d 13
  • 42 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1555
  • 96 A.L.R. 6th 755
  • 2014 WL 1047082
  • 2014 Minn. LEXIS 108

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that we “attempt to retain as much of the original statute as possible while striking the portions that render the statute unconstitutional”
  • rejecting the state’s proposed “circular” analysis of upholding the challenged statute because the speech was prohibited by that same statute
  • setting forth guidelines for determining when it is permissible to sever the unconstitutional portions of a statute
  • asking “what the Legislature would have wanted if it had known the other portions were unconstitutional”
  • affirming in part constitutionality of statute prohibiting “assisting]” suicide as against First Amendment challenge
  • reversing and remanding after modifying a statute to remedy overbreadth defects

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Anderson, Been, Consideration, Lillehaug, Submission, Took, Wright

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Cites

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