CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS v. STATE BY WILSON

No. 81-272.

310 N.W.2d 485 (1981)

The CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, Respondent, v. STATE of Minnesota, by William L. WILSON, Commissioner, Department of Human Rights, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

September 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., and Richard L. Varco, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for appellant.

Robert Alfton, City Atty., and Allen Hyatt, Asst. City Atty., Minneapolis, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.


SCOTT, Justice.

This is a race discrimination case. The appeal, by the State, Department of Human Rights, is from an order of the district court, which reversed part of an order by the Human Rights Commission hearing examiner. We reverse those parts of the district court's order which are challenged on this appeal.

This case arose from an incident which occurred early on March 24, 1974, in north Minneapolis as police tried to take a white man, Kenneth Ruegemer...

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