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BOOTH v. HVASS

No. 01-3210.

302 F.3d 849 (2002)

Scott BOOTH; Thomas D. Loyd; Frank Solchaga; David Witte; Scott Wyman; Charles Perrin; Knute Gladen; Michael Seeber; Terry Nyblom; Stephen Blake; Richard Doyle; William J. Hageman; Charles W. Hurd; Kyle Knutson; Jim Lovestar; Yves Nadeau; Pradeep Ramanathan, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Sheryl Ramstad HVASS, Commissioner of Corrections; Michael O'Keefe, Commissioner of Human Services; Charles R. Weaver, Jr., Commissioner of Public Safety; Christine Jax, Commissioner of Children, Families, and Learning for the State of Minnesota, Defendants-Appellees, Domestic Abuse Project (DAP); Central Minnesota Task Force on Battered Women; Lakes Crises Center, Intervenors Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: September 11, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Graham, argued, Quebec, Canada (Mark A. Olson, Burnsville, MN, on the brief), for appellant.

Mark B. Livinger, argued, St. Paul, MN (Beverly Balos, Maury S. Landsman, Mike Hatch and Jennifer K. Park, on the brief), for appellee.

Before WOLLMAN, BRIGHT, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

I. Background

On October 17, 2000, the plaintiffs-appellants, a group of male Minnesota taxpayers, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, seeking a declaratory judgment that the Minnesota statutory scheme for dispersing state and federal funds to assist battered women and victims of domestic abuse is unconstitutional. The men alleged that the statutory scheme, Minn. Stat. §§ 611A...

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