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LIFTEAU v. METROPOLITAN SPORTS FAC. COM'N

No. 49051.

270 N.W.2d 749 (1978)

John F. LIFTEAU, Respondent, v. METROPOLITAN SPORTS FACILITIES COMMISSION, Appellant, Arthur C. Roemer, Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue, Appellant, Metropolitan Council, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

Rehearing Denied September 5, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mastor & Bale, and Wayne H. Olson and David R. Knodell, St. Paul, for Metro. Sports Fac. Comm.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., C. Hamilton Luther, Deputy Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for Roemer.

Forrest D. Nowlin, Jr., and John Hoeft, St. Paul, for Metro. Council.

Johnson, Essling, Williams, Essling & Daly, St. Paul, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc.

YETKA, Justice.

Appeal by defendants from an order of the Ramsey County District Court enjoining them from implementing L.1977, c. 89, the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Act. The district court held that the expenditures in the Act were for a public purpose and that the metropolitan area was a proper taxing district. The court ruled, however, that the Act was unconstitutional because it failed to express its subject fully in its title; it failed to pass the legislature...

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