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WALKER v. ITASCA COUNTY AUDITOR

No. C9-00-1863.

624 N.W.2d 599 (2001)

Jeffrey T. WALKER, Individually and as Mayor of Cohasset, City of Cohasset and J.R. Properties, a Minnesota Partnership, Respondents, v. ITASCA COUNTY AUDITOR Robert Zuehlke; St. Louis County Auditor Gordy McFaul; Aitkin County Auditor Alice Dotzler; Cook County Auditor Carol Gresczyk; Lake County Auditor Steven McMahon; Crow Wing County Auditor Roy Luukkonen; and State of Minnesota, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

April 10, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip R. Krass, Krass Monroe, P.A., Bloomington, MN, for respondents.

Michael A. Hatch, Minnesota Attorney General, Bradford S. Delapena, Assistant Attorney General, James W. Neher, Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul, MN, for appellants.

Considered and decided by HARTEN, Presiding Judge, CRIPPEN, Judge, and HANSON, Judge.

OPINION

HANSON, Judge.

Taxpayers challenge the constitutionality of the Taconite Tax Relief Area Fiscal Disparities Act, Minn.Stat. §§ 276A.01-09 (2000), contending that it violates the uniformity clause of the Minnesota Constitution. Minn. Const. art. X, § 1. The district court found the act unconstitutional and the state and the affected counties appeal. We reverse.

FACTS

In 1941, the Minnesota Legislature established the...

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