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Minn. Stat. § 481.13 gives a lawyer a lien on the cause of action itself from service of the summons — and under City of Oronoco the cause-of-action lien needs no filing to outrank third parties. What the fired lawyer recovers is reasonable value, not the contract fee.
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Entry, docketing, and execution are three different acts. Under Minn. Stat. § 548.09, subd. 1, the lien begins at docketing but the judgment survives only ten years from entry — and renewing an ordinary money judgment under § 541.04 means filing a new lawsuit, not a form.
Minn. Stat. ch. 521A gives a personal representative the catalog of a decedent's electronic communications by default and the content only with consent — and a provider's online tool overrides your will.
Minnesota sanctions evidence lost before suit under a court's inherent authority, and it has no spoliation tort. Rule 37.05's federal-style intent-to-deprive threshold reaches only electronically stored information.
Homestead descent, the $15,000 exempt property selection, and the family allowance outrank creditors and the will under Minn. Stat. §§ 524.2-402 to 524.2-405 — but the homestead right is deemed waived unless the spouse files.
Informal probate is granted by a registrar, not a judge, and Minn. Stat. § 524.3-711 lets the personal representative deal with estate property 'without notice, hearing, or order of court' — real estate 30 days after letters issue. Minnesota repealed its counterpart to the UPC's notice of appointment to heirs in 1975.
Minn. Stat. § 524.2-102 does not give the whole estate to a surviving spouse whenever there are stepchildren on either side — including the surviving spouse's own children from a prior relationship.
Under Minn. Gen. R. Prac. 114.04(b), a party who will not agree on an ADR process does not avoid ADR — the court 'shall order' a non-binding one. Seven exceptions, a separate inability-to-pay provision, and a 21-day clock that turns a 'non-binding' arbitration award into an unappealable judgment.
Minn. Stat. § 524.2-301 gives a spouse married after the will an intestate share, and § 524.2-302 protects only children born or adopted after the will was signed. Both statutes are narrower than they look.
Minn. Stat. § 524.3-712 measures a personal representative's breach 'to the same extent as a trustee of an express trust,' and § 524.3-1005 bars claims six months after the closing statement — except for three things it does not cover.
Minn. Stat. § 524.6-204(d) lets a will change a survivorship or POD designation by specific reference. That is not the rule in most states, and the exception is narrower than it sounds.
Minn. Stat. § 65A.01, subd. 3 writes appraisal into every Minnesota fire policy — 20 days to name an appraiser, an itemized award of any two — and provides that nothing is waived by a proceeding relating to appraisal. Hail runs on § 65A.26's ten days and one year.
Minn. Stat. § 524.2-804 revokes beneficiary designations to a former spouse by operation of law, survived a Contracts Clause challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court, and was broadened in 2025.
Minn. R. Civ. P. 11 and Minn. Stat. § 549.211 both bar filing a sanctions motion until 21 days after it is served. Skip the window and Minnesota courts reject the motion — even where the conduct violated the rule.
Minn. R. Civ. P. 35 never uses the word 'independent' — the scheduling rule does. What the rule actually requires is a motion, a condition 'in controversy,' 'good cause shown,' and an order specifying manner, conditions, scope and examiner. And requesting the examiner's report widens your privilege waiver beyond the case.
Minn. Stat. § 80A.49 makes offering a security unlawful unless one of three exits applies — and § 80A.70(a) puts the burden of proving the exit on the issuer. The § 80A.76(b) registration claim needs no proof of intent and expires one year after the violation.
Under Minn. Stat. § 504B.178, subd. 4, the penalty turns on whether a written statement went out within three weeks — the withheld amount again, on top of what was wrongfully withheld, plus up to $500 for each deposit in bad faith under subd. 7.
Minn. Stat. § 524.3-1201 moves a $75,000 estate on an affidavit with no court involvement — and the same statute is a collection tool the State can point back at you.
Minn. Stat. § 524.3-720 pays a nominated personal representative's fees out of the estate whether or not the will he defends is admitted — which changes the economics of every Minnesota will contest before the merits are reached.
Minn. Stat. § 524.2-503 lets a court probate a will that fails the execution formalities on clear and convincing evidence of intent. It began as a temporary COVID window and was made permanent in 2021.
The Supreme Court held that a statutory violation is not itself an injury. For FCRA plaintiffs the practical dividing line became whether the false information was ever sent to anyone — and 6,332 of 8,185 class members lost on that.
Reckless disregard counts as willful — but only where the defendant's reading of the statute was objectively unreasonable. That single word decides whether a case is worth $100 to $1,000 per violation or nothing but proven actual damages.
The FCRA gives consumers a private action against furnishers under § 1681s-2(b) only. Subsection (a) is enforceable by regulators alone — and (b) duties are triggered only by a dispute routed through a credit bureau.
Miller v. Shugart, 316 N.W.2d 729 (Minn. 1982), lets an insured settle a claim collectible only from the policy. The claimant then carries the burden of proving the settlement was reasonable — to a judge, never to a jury.
In Minnesota the 60-day appeal clock runs from entry for a judgment but from service of written notice of filing for an order — and the motions that toll it are a closed list.
Minnesota's elective share reaches past the will into revocable trusts, beneficiary designations, and joint accounts — but nine months after death, the nonprobate transfers drop out of the calculation.
Minn. Stat. § 543.19 reaches as far as due process allows, so the statute almost never decides the motion. Minnesota's five-factor constitutional test does — and quality of contacts beats quantity.
Minn. Stat. §§ 514.68–514.72 give hospitals — and only hospitals — a lien on the injury claim itself. The perfection clock is ten days, the enforcement clock is two years, and an inflated lien statement can void the lien entirely.
Minn. Stat. § 270C.56 reaches the owner on a track that has nothing to do with veil piercing: no fraud, no unity of interest, no injustice finding — and, unlike federal law, no willfulness element at all.
Under Minn. Stat. § 336.2-608 a buyer who has accepted goods must prove substantial impairment, not just a defect. And § 325F.665's repair-attempt, out-of-service, and coverage thresholds exclude more buyers than they cover.
One telephone hearing builds the only record that will ever exist. Minn. Stat. § 268.105 closes it, and every deadline in the appeal path is written in calendar days.
Minn. R. Civ. P. 60.02 never mentions the four-factor test. It comes from a 1952 case decided under a repealed statute — and the factor that sinks most motions is the one movants treat as the other side's burden.
Section 1681o pays actual damages. Section 1681n adds statutory and punitive damages but requires willfulness. Both shift fees. What separates a provable case from a frustrating one is usually a paper trail created months earlier.
Schmidt v. Clothier gives your underinsured-motorist carrier 30 days' written notice before you release the at-fault driver. American Family v. Baumann made skipping it presumptively fatal — and put the burden of proving no harm on you.
The FCRA requires a reasonable reinvestigation and procedures assuring maximum possible accuracy. The automated dispute pipeline is built to ask one question — and there are errors it structurally cannot find.
Minn. Stat. § 626.89 is written for officers under investigation. For a civil plaintiff, it decides what investigative material has to exist — and a 2026 amendment just widened it.
Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders is overstated in both directions. Here is the precise scope of the intake-search rule, the questions the Court expressly reserved, and what the Eighth Circuit still treats as actionable.
Minnesota K-9 bite cases are governed by specific Eighth Circuit law on warnings, bite duration, and qualified immunity — not by Graham v. Connor alone.
Minn. Stat. § 466.03 enumerates 29 exceptions to Minnesota municipal tort liability. Subdivision 1 makes landing in one of them immunity rather than common law, and subdivisions 7 and 15 make the list open-ended.
State law creates property interests; the Constitution does not. Roth, Perry, Loudermill, and Mathews v. Eldridge, applied to Minnesota public employment, licenses, and benefits.
Minn. Stat. § 572B.04 lists what a pre-dispute arbitration clause may not take away: the § 572B.16 right to a lawyer, the § 572B.12 neutral-arbitrator disclosures, and the § 572B.07 and § 572B.23 court role. What the arbitrator may award you, under § 572B.21, is on neither list.
Minn. Stat. § 604.11 is not a trial statute — the word 'verdict' does not appear in it. It is a discovery statute with three subdivisions, and one sentence in subdivision 2 gives every party an absolute veto over ADR.
Pickering balancing, Connick's public-concern threshold, and Garcetti's official-duties rule — plus the Eighth Circuit's allocation of the burden on workplace disruption.
For a Fourth Amendment false arrest claim, probable cause is a complete defense — and in the Eighth Circuit, even arguable probable cause ends it. The Supreme Court has twice reshaped the malicious prosecution claim since 2022, and the Eighth Circuit added a requirement in 2025.
Minnesota's receivership statute, Minn. Stat. ch. 576, distinguishes general from limited receivers and gives a court-appointed stranger control of the assets. For owners it is an emergency; for buyers of distressed assets it is an opportunity.
A constitutional violation is not priced by the importance of the right. Carey, Stachura, Smith v. Wade, and City of Newport set what a § 1983 plaintiff can actually recover — and from whom.
A personal guaranty is a separate contract that survives your company's collapse and its bankruptcy. Minnesota's statute of frauds requires it in writing — and the waivers buried in the boilerplate are usually more dangerous than the guaranty itself.
Can a bank use the arbitration clause in an account you did open to force arbitration of claims about an account you never opened? Minnesota has a rule about contracts that never existed — and it does not answer this question.
Farmer v. Brennan's deliberate-indifference standard applied to suicide and inmate-on-inmate violence — the two prongs, the Eighth Circuit's subjective rule, and the Minnesota jail standards that generate the proof.
Minn. Stat. § 549.09 runs interest across three separate periods computed by three different officials, and subdivisions 3 and 4 apply every payment to disbursements, then accrued interest, and only then to principal.
In Chatrie v. United States, a divided Supreme Court held that pulling a person's location data from Google is a search. Minnesota's Legislature required a warrant for exactly that in 2014 — before Carpenter, and long before this term.
Nieves v. Bartlett requires a retaliatory-arrest plaintiff to plead and prove the absence of probable cause, with one narrow exception. In the Eighth Circuit the bar is higher still — and Minnesota's obstruction statute is where the fight actually happens.
Exhaustion, the physical-injury rule, the fee cap, and three strikes. The PLRA decides prisoner cases before anyone reaches the constitutional question — here is how each piece works.
Why a Minnesota wrongful-conviction damages case is decided on the prosecutorial-investigative line and the Eighth Circuit's bad-faith rule, not on the Brady violation itself.
Minn. Stat. § 325E.61, chapter 325M, and chapter 13 use three different definitions, three different triggers, and three different enforcers — and § 13.05, subd. 11 pulls private contractors into the Data Practices Act whether or not the contract says so.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0701 lets a Minnesota LLC member petition a court when those in control act illegally, fraudulently, or oppressively. The court's most valuable remedy is not dissolution — it is a court-ordered buyout at fair value.
Wells Fargo opened accounts its customers never authorized — and enforced the arbitration clauses in the accounts they did authorize. How the maneuver worked, and where a Minnesotan's version of it would be decided.
Minn. Stat. § 65B.51, subd. 1 orders the court to subtract no-fault benefits from a tort recovery — with no motion, no deadline, and, in the ordinary Minnesota crash, no subrogation right on the other side. The money does not go back to the carrier. It stays with the defendant.
Minn. Stat. § 590.11 and the Incarceration and Exoneration Remedies Act give an exonerated Minnesotan a damages route that does not depend on proving anyone violated the Constitution.
The Supreme Court held that federal pesticide law preempts a state failure-to-warn claim over Roundup's label. The rule it used came from a case about a device made in Fridley — and Minnesota's own statute makes the federal label binding here.
Section 1983 creates no rights — it enforces them. Who counts as a 'person,' why official-capacity and individual-capacity suits are different cases, and the Eighth Circuit pleading rule that has ended Minnesota claims on a caption.
Damages caps, jury rights, fee shifting, exhaustion, and the election-of-remedies provisions in Minn. Stat. §§ 363A.04, 363A.07, and 363A.33 — the tradeoffs behind choosing a statute, not a calendar.
Maslowski v. Prospect Funding Partners abolished champerty in 2020 and, in 2023, held that a litigation financing agreement is not subject to Minn. Stat. § 334.01's usury cap. What survives is unconscionability — a doctrine that lives entirely in the document.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0207 routes an LLC certificate to § 5.12, and § 5.26 defines good standing as compliance with Secretary of State filing requirements. That is all it certifies. Not taxes, not solvency, not authority.
Forming an LLC or corporation is not the end of the analysis. Under Victoria Elevator Co. v. Meriden Grain Co., Minnesota courts pierce the corporate veil using a two-prong test — a non-exclusive list of relationship factors, plus injustice or fundamental unfairness.
Garner set the constitutional floor for shooting a fleeing suspect. Minn. Stat. § 609.066, subd. 2(a)(2) sits above it — and the felony is only half the test.
A Minnesota consumer lawyer on three quiet forces—tougher pleading rules, buried class-action waivers, and plain cost—that are shutting ordinary people out of the courts.
Minnesota's Data Practices Act gives a data subject a ten-business-day response deadline, a written-denial requirement that must cite a statute, and two enforcement tracks. Most people use none of it.
Minn. Stat. § 181.988 makes employee non-competes void and unenforceable, with only two narrow exceptions — but it applies only to contracts and agreements entered into on or after July 1, 2023. Older agreements are still governed by common-law reasonableness review.
42 U.S.C. § 1988 lets a prevailing civil rights plaintiff recover fees from the defendant. Who counts as prevailing, how the lodestar works, and the traps — Buckhannon, nominal damages, Rule 68, and fee waivers in settlement.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0407 recognizes member-managed, manager-managed, and board-managed LLCs. The default is member-managed, the election is made in the operating agreement, and what the articles say about it does not control.
Section 1983 says a violator is liable 'to the party injured,' and says nothing about who sues when the injured party is dead. Federal law sends that question to Minnesota's wrongful death statute — and the Eighth Circuit has enforced it against an estate that got the wrong appointment.
Tyler v. Hennepin County made it unconstitutional for a county to keep your surplus after a tax forfeiture. In Pung v. Isabella County, the Court held the surplus is measured by the auction price — not what the home was worth. Minnesota homeowners have six months to claim it.
A private plaintiff under ADA Title III gets injunctive relief and fees, not money. Minn. Stat. § 363A.11 reaches damages — but § 363A.331 requires a pre-suit notice, with at least 60 days to respond, before counsel files an architectural-barrier case.
Minn. Stat. § 363A.09 protects creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and status with regard to public assistance — classes the federal Fair Housing Act does not list. That gap decides which statute you sue under.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0807 lets a trustee delegate to anyone, including an affiliate. The liability shield in paragraph (c) is conditional on selection, scope, and ongoing monitoring — and Minnesota's Prudent Investor Act has no separate delegation rule.
In United States v. Hemani, the Supreme Court held that prosecuting a marijuana user for keeping a gun at home violated the Second Amendment. Minnesota's firearms statute already carved out adult-use and medical cannabis. The two systems still do not line up.
A § 1983 claim and a Minnesota battery claim arising from the same arrest run on different immunities, different damages ceilings, and different clocks. Pleading only one is a decision, and it is usually made by accident.
Title II of the ADA reaches police departments, and the Eighth Circuit has applied it to the transport of a disabled arrestee. Whether it reaches the arrest itself is still open — the Supreme Court declined to answer.
In FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v. Saba Capital, the Court held there is no private right of action under Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act. Minnesota's blue-sky statute gives express private remedies, with limitations periods as short as one year.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0817 lets a trustee cut off objections to a final distribution in 30 days — but only if the proposal told the beneficiary about the right to object and the time allowed. It also lets the trustee hold a reserve.
In Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, a unanimous Court threw out a test that killed injury claims based on a debtor's 'motive to conceal.' The Eighth Circuit — which governs Minnesota — has taken the better view since 2006.
How the MCWD's permits, the Wetland Conservation Act, and a half-dozen agencies overlap on one project — and why the system is so evidence-heavy for landowners.
Kingsley's objective standard governs excessive force against a pretrial detainee. The Eighth Circuit has not extended it to medical care — so in Minnesota, plan on proving what the jailer actually knew.
Minn. Stat. § 13.825 classifies body-worn camera data as private or nonpublic and then carves out five exceptions. The retention floor is 90 days — which is the number that decides most cases.
In FCC v. AT&T, the Court upheld the FCC's power to impose forfeiture penalties without a jury. Minnesota's own Consumer Data Privacy Act took effect July 31, 2025 — with real rights, and enforcement reserved exclusively to the Attorney General.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.1005 sets three years from an adequate report and six years otherwise. The fight is never the arithmetic — it is whether a document was a report that adequately disclosed a potential claim.
In Flowers Foods v. Brock, a unanimous Court held that last-mile drivers moving goods that traveled interstate are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act — even if the driver never leaves the state. A rare decision that opens the courthouse door.
Minnesota's 2020 restraint limits are conditional, not flat bans — they turn on whether deadly force would be authorized. Plus the warrior-style training prohibition.
Under Minn. Stat. § 609.527, a Minnesota law enforcement agency must prepare a police report and give the complainant a copy, and courts must order at least $1,000 in restitution to each direct victim. The report is what makes your federal remedies work.
Minn. Stat. ch. 572B, § 337.10, subd. 1, and § 181.988, subd. 3 each tell Minnesota parties something about where and whether they must arbitrate. Two of the three name arbitration expressly — which is precisely the feature the Federal Arbitration Act treats with suspicion.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0703 says a trustee who does not join in another trustee's action is not liable for it — and then takes most of that back in paragraph (g). What a dissenting Minnesota cotrustee actually has to do.
Minn. Stat. § 550.37 exempts a substantial list of property from collection, and § 571.922 caps wage garnishment on a sliding scale. Exemptions are not automatic. Unclaimed, they are waived — and the amounts change every even-numbered year.
Section 1983 has no limitations period of its own. In Minnesota the borrowed period is six years, and the Eighth Circuit has said so in a published opinion. The citation trail behind that answer is messier than the answer.
Minn. Stat. § 541.076 gives four years from accrual. But the definition of 'health care provider' in the limitations statute is not the definition used by the minority-tolling statute, the expert-affidavit statute, or the death statutes.
Section 1983 has no respondeat superior. A Minnesota city answers only for its own policy or custom, and the Eighth Circuit's custom test asks for a pattern of similar misconduct, not a single incident.
Exempt vs. non-exempt, tips, overtime, and wage theft in Minnesota — what the law actually says, told through everyday scenarios.
In M&K Employee Solutions v. IAM National Pension Fund, a unanimous Court held that withdrawal-liability assumptions need not be chosen by the measurement date. Minnesota has one of the most heavily unionized workforces in the country.
When a Minnesota notice requirement is missed, the sanction is usually loss of the entire right: no lien, no claim, a void deed, a dismissed case. But the exceptions are not random — the cure goes to the party with less leverage.
Minn. Stat. § 604.06 does not codify the common law fireman's rule. It disables it for peace officers and public safety officers. A 2026 amendment enlarged the covered class and applied the change retroactively to February 1, 2020.
Qualified immunity is not a defense on the merits — it is a rule about how specific the prior case law has to be. In the Eighth Circuit, that usually means finding a case with facts close to yours.
In Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, a unanimous Court held that negligent-hiring claims against freight brokers are not preempted by the FAAAA. The industry's center of gravity sits in Minnesota, and so does the exposure.
Minn. Stat. § 604.03 makes expiration of a product's ordinary useful life a defense — not a deadline. It has no date certain, the manufacturer's own stated service life is one of six nonexclusive factors, and it does not bar the claim.
The Federal Arbitration Act was written to help merchants settle commercial disputes. Four decades of Supreme Court decisions turned it into a tool that pushes consumers out of court.
The Fourth Amendment asks whether force was objectively reasonable. Minnesota's statute asks whether it was necessary. One incident, two standards, two different answers.
Under Minn. Stat. § 336.9-610, every aspect of a disposition of collateral must be commercially reasonable. A secured party that sells carelessly, or fails to give proper notice, can lose part or all of its deficiency.
Minn. Stat. § 548.251 is not a damages rule. It is a written evidentiary proceeding on a ten-day fuse, it applies only where there is a verdict, it never reaches future benefits, and in an auto case it is usually not the operative statute at all.
Minnesota's Legislature wrote a deadly-force rule stricter than the federal constitutional floor — necessity plus a three-part threat test. Here is what it says and where it bites.
Under Minn. Stat. § 502.851, a Minnesota trustee can pour the assets of an old trust into a new one with better terms — no court order, 60 days' notice. How much can change depends entirely on the trustee's discretion under the original document.
Until May 20, 2023, Minn. Stat. § 573.01 said a personal injury cause of action 'dies with the person.' It now says the claim survives the death of any party. What that changed — and what it did not.
In Enbridge Energy, LP v. Nessel, a unanimous Court held the 30-day removal deadline cannot be equitably tolled. Minnesota's Attorney General was on the winning side, and 337 miles of Enbridge pipeline run through this state.
An honest comparison of Minnesota trust law with South Dakota, Nevada, Delaware, Alaska, and Wyoming — asset protection, dynasty trusts, and taxes, with the real limits.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0206 makes a signer who knew the record was inaccurate personally liable to anyone who suffers a loss by relying on it — and reaches members and managers who never signed anything at all.
Minn. Stat. § 325E.61 requires notice 'in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay,' plus notice to the national credit bureaus within 48 hours when more than 500 people are notified at one time. Enforcement is the Attorney General's alone — and GLBA financial institutions are exempt outright.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0705 terminates an LLC that misses the free annual renewal. Section 322C.0706 reinstates it retroactively and validates the contracts signed in the gap — but only three of its effects, and only for domestic companies.
In Maslowski v. Prospect Funding Partners, the Minnesota Supreme Court abolished the common-law prohibition against champerty. Third-party litigation funding is enforceable in Minnesota. The protections that remain are contract law and unconscionability.
A Minnesota deal lawyer's plain-English guide to asset vs. equity purchases — liabilities, successor risk, the non-compete ban, taxes, and why the choice matters.
Chapter 319B applies only if your organizational document says three specific things. Minn. Stat. § 319B.03, subd. 2 sets the election; § 319B.06, subd. 3 declines to change what you owe the person you served.
In Cox v. Sony Music, the Court erased a $1 billion verdict and held that an ISP is not liable merely for serving subscribers it knows are infringing. The last time the music industry could not reach the middleman, it sued a mother of four from Brainerd.
Minn. Stat. § 302A.751, subds. 2 and 3a make a buy-sell binding in a Minnesota buyout. Connelly v. United States says the same agreement is 'ordinarily not dispositive' for the estate tax. Section 507.071, ch. 523, and § 524.3-803 each miss the entity.
Minn. Stat. §§ 322C.0902 and 322C.0903 decide whether a member's claim survives the caption. Demand, futility, proper-plaintiff status, and the direct/derivative line each dismiss cases on their own.
You disputed the error and the bureau closed it as 'verified.' Here's why self-disputes fail, what the FCRA actually requires, and when it becomes a legal claim.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0701 lists six dissolution triggers. Three are events your operating agreement can rewrite; two are court powers it is forbidden to touch. Knowing which is which decides whether you draft or you file.
Minn. Stat. § 513.44 lets a creditor unwind a transfer made with actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud — and lists eleven factors courts weigh. Most of them describe things people do without believing they are doing anything wrong.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0803 requires a trustee to give 'due regard to the beneficiaries' respective interests' — interests the settlor usually made unequal on purpose. The qualifier is the rule.
Minnesota taxes estates over $3 million even when no federal tax is owed. Here's who gets caught, why married couples are especially exposed, and how planning helps.
Minn. Stat. § 8.31, subd. 3a gives any person injured by a violation of Minnesota's consumer protection statutes a civil action for damages, costs of investigation, and reasonable attorney's fees. It is the most underused remedy in Minnesota consumer law.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0704 says when a vacancy in a Minnesota trusteeship must be filled, when it need not be, and the exact four-tier order of priority for filling it before anyone goes to court.
Benefits began January 1, 2026, and the first premiums were due April 30. A plain-English guide to the 2026 premium rate, the leave categories, the 20-week cap, and where Minnesota employers most often get this wrong.
In Postal Service v. Konan, a 5–4 Court held the FTCA's postal exception bars claims for intentional nondelivery. Minnesota law starts foreclosure clocks, surplus-claim clocks, and response deadlines from the moment something is mailed.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.1009 makes a beneficiary's consent, release, or ratification binding — with two exceptions that turn on what the trustee knew and what the beneficiary was told.
In Hain Celestial Group v. Palmquist, a unanimous Court held that erroneously dismissing a non-diverse defendant after removal does not cure the jurisdictional defect. A federal jury trial and a defense judgment were vacated for want of jurisdiction.
A plain-English look at what a revocable living trust does and doesn't do for a Minnesota home — probate, homestead, taxes, and the transfer-on-death deed alternative.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0802 sets out three different regimes with three different burdens. A fair price defeats a claim under paragraph (d) and does nothing at all under paragraph (b).
Minn. Stat. § 302A.751 lets a shareholder in a Minnesota corporation that is not publicly held sue over conduct that is 'unfairly prejudicial' — and subdivision 3a directs courts to weigh the parties' reasonable expectations. The remedy is usually a buyout at fair value.
As of January 1, 2026, Minnesota courts can issue an order for protection against financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult — freezing assets and lines of credit and barring contact. Here is who can ask for one and what a court must find.
Minn. Stat. § 513.01, § 507.02, § 334.01, subd. 2, § 181.723, subd. 4(a)(9), and § 504B.291, subd. 1(c) all require a writing — and read together they put the cost of an undocumented deal on the party who had the power and the reason to document it.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0708 lets a Minnesota court raise or lower the compensation a trust document specifies — and § 501C.0105(b)(7) makes that power one of the few things a settlor cannot draft around.
Minnesota's LLC act fills every gap in your operating agreement with default rules. What those defaults actually say, and where agreements break down.
A transfer on death deed under Minn. Stat. § 507.071 conveys real property at death without probate, stays fully revocable during life, and costs a recording fee. The traps are recording before death, both spouses' signatures on a homestead, the public assistance clearance certificate, and no right of exoneration.
Minn. Stat. § 549.09, subd. 1(c) splits judgment interest at a $50,000 hinge — 4% for 2026 versus a flat ten percent. Section 337.10, subd. 3 charges 1-1/2 percent per month on construction payables. Sections 334.01 and 334.011 govern the private note.
Minn. Stat. § 544.41 lets a nonmanufacturer certify the manufacturer's identity and be dismissed. The dismissal is conditional, reversible on five grounds, and reaches only strict liability in tort.
In Berk v. Choy, the Supreme Court held that a state affidavit-of-merit requirement does not apply in federal court. Minnesota has two of them — and Minnesota's Attorney General signed the brief urging the Court to rule the other way.
Minn. Stat. § 604.02, subd. 1 made several liability the default in 2003 and kept joint and several liability for four categories — including any defendant whose fault is greater than 50 percent.
Minn. Stat. § 302A.661, subd. 4 limits an asset buyer's liability to what the contract or another statute imposes, and says an asset sale is not a de facto merger. Federal courts read it as abrogating most of the old common-law exceptions. The Minnesota Court of Appeals has not squarely agreed.
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Minn. Stat. § 501C.1013 lets a trustee prove the trust with a six-item certificate instead of the dispositive terms. It contains no consequence for a third party who refuses it, and knowing that changes how you argue.
In Coney Island Auto Parts v. Burton, the Court held that a motion attacking a void judgment must still be filed within a reasonable time. In Minnesota, where 82% of debt-collection cases in district court end in default, that is not an academic rule.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0505 subjects revocable trust property to the settlor's creditors in life and at death. It attaches no claims procedure and no deadline of its own, which cuts against the trustee.
Minn. Stat. § 302A.457 lets shareholders do by agreement what bylaws cannot — move the board's authority, and the directors' liability, to themselves. It is also what a court reads under § 302A.751, subd. 3a.
Minn. Stat. ch. 325C protects information with independent economic value that is not readily ascertainable and is the subject of reasonable efforts to keep it secret. Exemplary damages up to twice compensatory, attorney's fees running both directions, and a three-year clock from discovery under § 325C.06.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0410 gives a member-managed LLC member a broad, purpose-free right to records — and gives a manager-managed member a narrower one. A dissociated member keeps a third right entirely.
Dissolution under Minn. Stat. §§ 302A.701–302A.791, with the LLC parallel at §§ 322C.0701–322C.0708. The claims procedure is what cuts off exposure: 90 days with notice, two years without — and an administratively dissolved corporation gets neither.
45 days for the subcontractor pre-lien notice, 120 days to record and serve the lien statement, one year to sue. Minn. Stat. ch. 514 forgives almost nothing, and the deadlines start earlier than most contractors think.
Minn. Stat. § 80C.21, § 337.10, subd. 1, § 325E.37, subd. 7, and § 181.988, subd. 3 each void an out-of-state choice-of-law or forum clause in a defined class of contract. Read together they describe a rule; the FAA question at the edge is genuinely unsettled.
Minn. Stat. ch. 80C registers the sale of franchises — but what franchisees need is § 80C.14's 90-day termination notice and 180-day nonrenewal rule, § 80C.17's fee-shifting, and § 80C.21, which voids any waiver or choice-of-law clause.
Minn. Stat. ch. 523 provides a statutory short form power of attorney with fourteen categories of authority. Durability is elected on the form, the principal's signature must be notarized, and gifts to the agent themselves require a separate express authorization.
Prejudgment attachment under Minn. Stat. ch. 570 is Minnesota's rarest creditor remedy because § 570.02 makes the grounds intent-based — and only four of the six can support an ex parte seizure under § 570.025.
Minn. Stat. § 336.9-626(a)(2) and (a)(4), § 302A.751, subd. 2, §§ 513.42(b), 513.44(c), 513.45(c), 513.48(g), and § 550.175, subd. 1 all answer the question 'what is this worth?' — and they hand the burden to a different party each time.
Minn. Stat. ch. 565 moves possession of personal property before judgment: § 565.23 after notice and hearing, § 565.24 before it, plus bonds, redelivery rights, and the UCC Article 9 problem that sends a secured party to court at all.
Minn. Stat. § 504B.321 sets the hearing 7 to 14 days out, and § 504B.291 lets a nonpayment tenant redeem the tenancy any time before possession is delivered. Skip the 14-day residential notice and the case is dismissed and expunged.
Minn. Stat. § 604.07 was repealed in 1988 and §§ 604.08–604.09 in 1994. What survives is § 549.25 — a hearing, not a discount — and a past/future split that exists because the interest statute needs it.
Minn. Stat. § 626.557 creates a private treble-damages action for financial exploitation only. For neglect and abuse it supplies a mandatory report, a state investigation, and a public memorandum — and the negligence case still has to stand on its own.
Minn. Stat. § 541.05 gives six years for most contract and tort claims — but strict product liability gets four, and a long list of claims run on much shorter clocks. The most expensive mistake in civil litigation is arriving late.
Minn. Stat. § 302A.661, subd. 4 protects an asset buyer — and expressly preserves liability imposed by 'other statutes of this state.' Those statutes include § 181.723, subd. 7(e) and the UVTA at §§ 513.41–.51, with federal MPPAA overlay at 29 U.S.C. § 1384.
Easements arise by grant, implication, and prescription — and Minn. Stat. § 508.02 wipes out the unrecorded ones on Torrens land. But Minn. Stat. § 164.08, subd. 2 says a town board "shall establish a cartway."
Minn. Stat. § 540.08 makes an unapproved settlement of a minor's claim invalid, and Minn. Gen. R. Prac. 145 supplies the machinery — including a rule that reaches claims with no lawsuit on file, and a fund the child cannot touch at 18 without a second order.
A buy-sell agreement decides what happens when an owner dies, divorces, quits, or is forced out. In Minnesota it does something more: under Minn. Stat. § 302A.751, subd. 3a, buy-sell agreements are presumed to reflect shareholders' reasonable expectations concerning the matters they deal with.
Minn. Stat. § 169.09, subd. 5a makes a permissive driver the owner's agent 'in case of accident.' It contains no cap, no theft exception, and no presumption of consent — and the leading cases all cite a statute number that no longer exists.
Minnesota's spousal consortium claim comes from Thill v. Modern Erecting Co. (1969), not from a statute, and it was created with conditions attached — including a joinder rule that kills the claim if the injured spouse's case goes to trial without it.
Minn. Stat. § 513.55 requires disclosure of material facts "of which the seller is aware," and § 513.57 immunizes everything outside that knowledge. Section 513.60's waiver does not reach the well, septic, meth, or radon statutes.
Everyone reads the two lists in Minn. Stat. § 322C.0110 — what an operating agreement may not do, and what it may. The provision that decides member disputes is subdivision 8, which fixes when, by whom, and on what record a duty term gets tested.
Adverse possession under Minn. Stat. § 541.02 and boundary by practical location are different doctrines with different elements and different proof. Minn. Stat. § 508.02 bars the first on registered land and expressly preserves the second.
Minn. Stat. § 466.05 requires written notice to a municipality's governing body within 180 days of discovering the injury. Minn. Stat. § 466.04 caps damages, § 466.03 lists the immunities, and § 466.06 contains the one lever most claimants never pull.
Minn. Stat. § 181.723 makes every individual performing building construction services an employee unless they operate as a business entity meeting all fourteen statutory requirements — with penalties up to $10,000 per worker and personal liability for owners.
Minn. Stat. § 169.685, subd. 4 makes proof of seat belt and child restraint use or nonuse inadmissible in any litigation involving personal injury or property damage from the use or operation of a motor vehicle. The bar runs both ways, with one exception.
Minn. Stat. ch. 580 lets a mortgagee foreclose without a lawsuit. But Minn. Stat. § 582.30, subd. 2 bars a deficiency judgment after an advertisement foreclosure with a six-month redemption period. The redemption period is the whole case.
Minn. Stat. § 62A.095 forbids a health plan's subrogation clause unless it applies only after full recovery and is reduced by a pro rata share of fees and costs. Self-funded ERISA plans argue the limit does not reach them.
Minn. Stat. § 559.21 lets a contract for deed seller terminate the contract by serving a notice and waiting. The cure period is 60 days on most modern contracts, 30 on some, 90 on others — and almost everyone remembers the wrong rule.
Minn. Stat. § 544.42 and § 145.682 require expert affidavits in professional and malpractice cases, and both make dismissal with prejudice mandatory. Neither deadline runs from a court filing, and the two statutes are not the twins they look like.
Minn. Stat. § 181.988 voids employee non-competes signed on or after July 1, 2023. What remains is ch. 325C and the DTSA, the carve-outs in subd. 1(a), § 181.9881, the sale exception, and the duty of loyalty.
Minn. Stat. § 65B.525 forces no-fault benefit claims of $10,000 or less into binding arbitration under the Minnesota No-Fault Arbitration Rules. The arbitrator's fact findings are final; the arbitrator's legal conclusions are reviewed de novo.
Chapter 337 makes broad-form indemnity, additional-insured coverage for someone else's negligence, out-of-state choice of law and forum, and pre-payment lien waivers void in Minnesota building and construction contracts — and deems a 10-day prompt-payment term into every one of them.
Minn. Stat. § 65B.51, subd. 3 bars noneconomic damages in a Minnesota motor vehicle case unless a threshold is met — and the $4,000 computation removes diagnostic x-rays and rehabilitative treatment from the total before it is measured.
Minn. Stat. § 363A.28, subd. 3(a) gives one year from the occurrence. Then § 363A.33, subd. 1 adds 45- and 90-day windows, § 363A.07, subd. 3 makes the forum choice exclusive, and § 363A.31 gives 15 days to rescind a release.
A Minnesota revocable trust governs only what was retitled into it. The pour-over will under Minn. Stat. § 524.2-511 is a backstop that runs the assets you paid to keep out of probate straight through probate.
Minn. Stat. § 548.251 and § 604.01 answer two different questions, and § 548.251, subd. 3(c) fixes the sequence between them. Collateral sources come off before the fault reduction; settlement credits come off after. Same dollars, different result.
Minn. Stat. §§ 181.960–181.966 give an employee the right to review and copy the personnel record on written request — seven working days, no fee — and § 181.963 bars the employer from later using what it left out.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0901 judges a trustee's investments at the portfolio level and by process, not by results. The trustee who documented a strategy is defensible; the one who just held what the settlor left is not.
Minn. Stat. § 325F.70, subd. 3 gives a consumer a direct damages remedy under the Consumer Fraud Act that the statute itself deems to benefit the public. Everyone else is back in § 8.31 and Ly v. Nystrom. The Deceptive Trade Practices Act pays nobody.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.1005 gives a Minnesota beneficiary three years from a report that adequately disclosed a potential claim — and the trustee decides when to send it, by a method that does not require you to receive it.
Under Minn. Stat. §§ 181.950–181.957 an employer may not request or require a drug or alcohol test except as authorized — and nothing is authorized unless it is done pursuant to a written policy meeting § 181.952, subd. 1.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.1205 protects a disabled beneficiary's public benefits — but only if someone else's money funds it. A settlement or an inheritance that lands first is a different, harder problem.
Minn. Stat. § 181.932 protects six categories of conduct. Since the 2013 amendment defining 'good faith' in § 181.931, subd. 4, the only state-of-mind question is whether the report was knowingly false or reckless.
Under Minn. Stat. § 549.09, subd. 1(b), the party whose written settlement offer lands closer to the verdict controls who gets preverdict interest and on what amount — and subd. 1(c) sets a flat ten percent above $50,000.
Minnesota lets a trust split the trustee's job among an investment advisor, a distribution advisor, and a trust protector. Minn. Stat. § 501C.0808 decides who is liable — and the answer surprises most settlors.
Minn. Stat. §§ 604A.20–604A.27 strip a landowner's duty of care toward recreational users — but only for an owner 'who gives written or oral permission ... without charge.' Section 604A.27 keeps that permission from ripening into an easement.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0706(b)(4) is the cheapest removal ground in Minnesota trust law — and the easiest to plead badly. Read the trust's own removal clause before you file anything.
Minn. Stat. § 302A.461, subd. 4(a) gives a shareholder of a non-publicly-held Minnesota corporation an absolute right to inspect the share register and ten enumerated categories of record — with no proper purpose to prove, and attorney fees if the company refuses.
Minn. Stat. § 573.02 gives the cause of action to a court-appointed trustee, not to the spouse or the children. Minn. Gen. R. Prac. 144 supplies the machinery — and a 2023 amendment quietly enlarged what that trustee is allowed to recover.
Minn. Stat. § 549.191 forbids a complaint from seeking punitive damages and requires a motion, affidavits, and a prima facie showing first. Read with § 549.20 and § 544.36, it means a Minnesota complaint may not say what the case is worth.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0605 gives a revocable-trust contestant three years — unless the trustee sends a copy of the instrument and a four-item notice. Then it is 120 days. Note the section number.
Minn. Stat. § 347.22 makes a dog's owner liable for 'the full amount of the injury sustained' — no negligence, no prior bite, no scienter. All that is left to fight about is provocation and whether the person was lawfully present.
Minn. Stat. §§ 501C.0410 through 501C.0417 supply six ways to modify or terminate an irrevocable Minnesota trust. Only one of them beats a material purpose, and only one needs no judge.
Minn. Stat. § 340A.801 creates a claim against a vendor who caused an intoxication by an illegal sale. Minn. Stat. § 340A.802 conditions it on written notice served within 240 days of the date counsel is retained — and bars the action without it.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0111 lets interested persons resolve almost any trust matter by written agreement. It buys speed and privacy — and leaves a defect that only a court order can cure.
Minn. Stat. ch. 65B pays $40,000 in basic economic loss benefits regardless of fault. Section 65B.51, subd. 3 then bars any recovery for noneconomic detriment unless a $4,000 net medical figure — or one of four injury categories — is met.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0813 is three paragraphs long. It sets no schedule, prescribes no report format, and reaches only irrevocable trusts — so the real engine is § 501C.1005.
A deadline running from a filing is a calendar entry. A deadline running from 'the last item of work,' 'first furnished,' or 'should have been discovered' is a fact question — and in Minnesota those are the ones that forfeit rights.
Seven of the eleven restrictions on a Minnesota operating agreement admit no exception at all — including the one that makes Minnesota law non-negotiable for a Minnesota LLC's internal affairs, and the one that follows a void term into the articles of organization.
Victoria Elevator requires a multi-factor showing plus injustice. Minn. Stat. § 270C.56, § 302A.559, § 181.723, subd. 7(d), § 336.3-402, and § 513.48 require none of it — and reach the owner directly.
Minn. Stat. § 524.3-803 bars claims against a decedent's estate after four months from published notice. But a 'known and identified' creditor gets served, and the personal representative who fails to look for one has a problem of their own.
Minnesota shifts attorney fees in some claims, refuses to in others, and in one instance caps the fee at $5. Read together — § 8.31, § 325F.70, § 181.171, § 337.10, § 325C.04, § 302A.461 — the pattern is not about the seriousness of the wrong.
Minn. Stat. §§ 322C.1001–322C.1016 make merger, conversion, and domestication statutory transactions with a filed plan and a unanimity default. Section 322C.1010, subd. 1: the converted organization 'is for all purposes the same entity that existed before.'
Minn. Stat. § 513.42, § 302A.551, § 322C.0405, § 576.25, and 11 U.S.C. § 101(32) all turn on insolvency and none of them measures it the same way. A lawful corporate distribution can be a voidable transfer on identical facts.
Chapter 322C never addresses single-member companies except to confirm a sole member has an operating agreement. It does not say whether the § 322C.0503 charging order protects one. It does say the company dissolves 90 days after the owner dies.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0601 gives every member the power to walk out. Section 322C.0603 turns the interest into a bare transferable interest. There is no buyout — and § 322C.0102, subd. 15 quietly strips the standing to ask for one.
Minnesota caps interest at $8 on $100 per year — but subd. 2 exempts written credit extensions of $100,000 or more entirely, and § 334.011 gives business and agricultural loans a floating cap. Violate the business cap and the entire interest is forfeited.
Minn. Stat. § 364.021 bars a public or private employer from asking about criminal history before the interview. But the direct-relationship standard in § 364.03 and the written-explanation duty in § 364.05 reach only public employment and licensing — and § 364.06, subd. 2(d) makes the private-employer remedy exclusive.
Chapter 322C never uses the words capital call, capital account, dilution, or forfeiture. Minn. Stat. § 322C.0401, subd. 5 says a member need not contribute at all. What that leaves is a contract — measured against Gorco Construction Co. v. Stein.
The Farmer-Lender Mediation Act conditions foreclosure, repossession, contract for deed cancellation, garnishment, and levy on a mediation notice — but the operative bars sit in Minn. Stat. §§ 336.9-601(h), 550.365, 559.209, and 582.039. Sections 583.20 to 583.32 expire June 30, 2027.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0408 makes indemnification and advancement of defense costs mandatory for Minnesota LLCs by default. Section 322C.0408, subd. 4 lets the operating agreement delete both.
Minn. Stat. § 524.5-310 and § 524.5-409 both require the court to find that the respondent's needs cannot be met by less restrictive means — and both name the alternative by statute: a health care agent under ch. 145C, an attorney-in-fact under § 523.01.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0301 ends status-based agency for LLC members. Section 322C.0302 replaces it with an optional filing — one that grants power broadly, limits it narrowly, and never expires.
Minn. Stat. §§ 322C.0405 and 322C.0406 impose a fault-based clawback on the people who approved a distribution and a knowledge-based one on the people who took it. The two-year bar covers less than it looks like it does.
Minn. Stat. § 501C.0502 stops a creditor from reaching a beneficiary's interest or a distribution "before its receipt." Sections 501C.0504 and 501C.0506 mark the two edges of that protection — and Minnesota's chapter has no § 501C.0501 and no § 501C.0503 at all.
Under Minn. Stat. § 181.13, wages owed a discharged employee are due immediately on written demand, and the employer is in default 24 hours later — with a penalty of one day's average earnings for every day, up to 15. Attorney fees are mandatory.
Chapter 322C gives a deadlocked LLC member a dissolution petition and — read closely — no buyout to go with it. The exit has to be built into the operating agreement first.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0503 makes the charging order the exclusive remedy against a member's transferable interest. Read closely, it is narrower than both sides usually think.
Minn. Stat. § 256B.15 defines "estate" to include life estates, joint tenancies, pay-on-death accounts, living trusts, and transfer on death deeds, and § 514.981 puts a lien on the house while the recipient is still alive. Neither is stopped by avoiding probate.
Read § 322C.0110, § 337.02, § 337.05, § 337.10, § 336.9-602, § 325E.61, and § 504B.365 together and a pattern appears: Minnesota's non-waivable core is not substance. It is access, information, and forum.
Minn. Stat. § 504B.161 makes the covenants of habitability unwaivable, and § 504B.385 lets a residential tenant deposit rent with the court administrator 14 days after written notice. The catch is subdivision 1(d): a tenant may not withhold rent.
Minn. Stat. §§ 325D.49–325D.66 mirror Sherman Act §§ 1 and 2 almost word for word. But § 325D.57 gives treble damages to anyone 'injured directly or indirectly' — and the act contains no provision telling courts to follow federal law.
Minn. Stat. § 510.02 protects hundreds of thousands of dollars of homestead value across as much as 160 acres, on an amount that adjusts every even-numbered year. But § 510.05 lists exactly what it does not stop, and § 510.07 will let you abandon it by accident.
Minn. Stat. § 609.2335 makes financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult a crime, § 626.557 makes it reportable within 24 hours, and § 626.557, subd. 20 gives the adult a treble-damages claim — on definitions that do not match.
Minn. Stat. § 626A.02, subd. 2(d) lets a party to a conversation record it, and § 626A.13 gives the person recorded a civil action worth at least $10,000 when it does not. Section 609.746 governs cameras, contains no one-party rule, and creates no civil remedy at all.
Minn. Stat. §§ 336.2-313 to 336.2-316 create and disclaim warranties on the sale of goods; § 336.2-607(3)(a) bars the buyer who fails to notify; § 336.2-719 lets a seller cap the remedy — until the cap fails of its essential purpose.
The Minnesota Health Records Act, Minn. Stat. §§ 144.291–144.298, requires signed consent for releases that HIPAA permits outright. Section 144.292 sets a 30-day access deadline and a capped fee schedule; § 144.298 gives the patient a private action against the requester as well as the releaser.
Minnesota abolished the invitee/licensee distinction in 1972, but Minn. Stat. § 466.03, subd. 4 immunizes municipalities for snow and ice on most public sidewalks, § 466.03, subd. 6e immunizes parks, and § 466.05 gives a claimant 180 days to present notice.
Minn. Stat. ch. 558 governs partition actions commenced before August 1, 2025; the new Minnesota Partition Act, ch. 558A, governs everything after. The new act replaces 'great prejudice' with a seven-factor test — and adds attorney fees enforceable against the homestead.
Minnesota requires every auto policy to carry uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage under Minn. Stat. § 65B.49, subd. 3a. Section 65B.49, subd. 4a sets the payout against what the at-fault driver actually paid, and subd. 10 now puts a four-year clock on UIM.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0201 forms an LLC on filing and a $135 payment. Minn. Stat. § 302A.821, subd. 4(b) administratively dissolves a corporation that skips its annual renewal — and says that corporation 'is not entitled to the benefits of section 302A.781,' the claims bar.
Minn. Stat. § 604.18 gives a first-party insured taxable costs — half the proceeds above the insurer's pre-trial offer, capped at $250,000, plus fees capped at $100,000 — but only after a motion to amend, only from the judge, and never after arbitration or appraisal.
Minn. Stat. § 609.748 defines harassment to include repeated intrusive or unwanted acts 'regardless of the relationship between the actor and the intended target' — the opposite of the order for protection under Minn. Stat. § 518B.01, which begins and ends with relationship.
Minn. Stat. § 518A.34 sets a six-step computation, § 518A.35 supplies the guideline table, and § 518A.36 adjusts for parenting time by cubing each parent's annual overnights. Parenting time and imputed income under § 518A.32 are where Minnesota support cases are actually fought.
Minn. Stat. § 491A.01 sets the conciliation court limit at $20,000 — but only $4,000 for consumer credit transactions, and eleven categories of claim are excluded outright. The 21-day removal window is where most of the real damage happens.
Minn. Stat. ch. 332B registers debt settlement providers and, at § 332B.09, subd. 3, forbids collecting any payment before the services are fully performed. Chapter 332A does the same job differently for debt management. Both carry private rights of action with statutory damages and fees.
Minn. Stat. §§ 332.31–332.44 license collection agencies and debt buyers and list 24 prohibited practices in § 332.37, including a clause making any FDCPA violation a Minnesota violation. But the private damages remedy lives in the federal statute, 15 U.S.C. § 1692k.
Minn. Stat. § 541.051 gives two years from discovery of the injury and ten years from substantial completion. The ten-year clause is written as a bar on accrual, not on filing — and read with ch. 327A's 1/2/10-year warranties, that changes what it does.
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