INSURERS' ACTION COUNCIL, INC. v. HEATON

No. Civ-3-76-440.

423 F.Supp. 921 (1976)

INSURERS' ACTION COUNCIL, INC., a Nebraska Corporation, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Berton HEATON, Commissioner of Insurance, et al., Defendants, and United Cerebral Palsy et al., Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Third Division.

December 23, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Claybourne, Joseph R. Kernan, Jr., and Robert J. Schmit, Doherty, Rumble & Butler, St. Paul, Minn., for plaintiffs.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Richard B. Allyn, Sol. Gen., Stephen F. Befort, Kent G. Harbison, William R. Howard, and Richard D. Lockridge, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, Minn., for defendants Berton Heaton and Minnesota Department of Commerce, Ins. Division.

John F. Stone and David B. Morse, Thompson, Hessian, Fletcher, McKasy, & Soderberg, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association.

Rebecca A. Knittle and Patricia A. Suita, Legal Advocacy for the Developmentally Disabled of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., attorneys for defendants in intervention United Cerebral Palsy, Minnesota Epilepsy League, Minnesota Association for Retarded Citizens, Michael L. Berde and Carol T. Berde.

Frank Allen Hester, Legal Assistance of Ramsey County, Inc., St. Paul, Minn., for amici curiae Senior Citizens Legislative Council of Greater St. Paul, Senior Citizens Coalition of Greater St. Paul, Inc. and Metropolitan Senior Federation, Inc.

Michael Milgrom, Minneapolis, Minn., for amicus curiae Minnesota Public Interest Research Group.

John F. Market, St. Paul, Minn., for amicus curiae Minnesota Catholic Conference.


MEMORANDUM & ORDER

DEVITT, Chief Judge.

This action for declaratory and injunctive relief, which is presented on plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction, is a challenge to the constitutionality of the recently enacted Minnesota Comprehensive Health Insurance Act of 1976, Minn.Laws 1976, ch. 296.

Plaintiffs are several insurance companies and a non-profit corporation composed of several other insurers, all of which write or have written...

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