STATE EX REL. SVIGGUM v. HANSON

No. A06-840.

732 N.W.2d 312 (2007)

STATE of Minnesota ex rel. Speaker of House of Representatives Hon. Steve SVIGGUM, et al., petitioners, Appellants, v. Tom HANSON in his official capacity as Commissioner of Finance or his successor, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

May 22, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erick G. Kaardal, William F. Mohrman, Mohrman & Kaardal, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for appellants.

Lori Swanson, Attorney General, Kenneth E. Raschke, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul, MN, for respondents.

Peter S. Wattson, Senate Counsel, Research, and Fiscal Analysis, St. Paul, MN, for amicus curiae Eighty-fourth Minnesota Senate.

Considered and decided by LANSING, Presiding Judge; WORKE, Judge; and ROSS, Judge.


OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

This appeal arises out of a district court order authorizing the commissioner of finance to issue checks and process funds necessary to continue core functions of the executive branch after the legislature ended its regular session in May 2005 without funding many executive-branch agencies for the 2005-07 biennium. The temporary funding order expired on July 14, 2005, when the governor signed a bill funding base-level operations for...

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