PAUL'S INDUS. GARAGE, INC. v. GOODHUE COUNTY

No. 21-2614.

35 F.4th 1097 (2022)

PAUL'S INDUSTRIAL GARAGE, INC., a Wisconsin corporation; Flom Disposal, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants Countryside Disposal, LLC, a Minnesota corporation, Plaintiff v. GOODHUE COUNTY, a Minnesota county; Goodhue County Board of Commissioners, in their official capacities; City of Red Wing, a Minnesota municipality, Defendants-Appellees Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Amicus on Behalf of Appellee(s).

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: May 27, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erick G. Kaardal , Mohrman & Kaardal, Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Riley A. Conlin , Andrew J. Pieper , Bradley R. Prowant , Stoel & Rives, Minneapolis, MN, Stephen Francis O'Keefe , Goodhue County Attorney's Office, Red Wing, MN, for Defendants-Appellees Goodhue County, Goodhue County Board of Commissioners.

John M. Baker , Aaron P. Knoll , Katherine M. Swenson , Greene & Espel, Minneapolis, MN, for Defendant-Appellee City of Red Wing.

Philip S. Pulitzer , Attorney General's Office, Saint Paul, MN, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellee(s).

Before GRASZ, STRAS, and KOBES, Circuit Judges.


Proverbially, "one man's trash is another man's treasure." For Paul's Industrial Garage (PIG), a Wisconsin-based trash hauler, that idiom applies literally. PIG made around $200,000 per year collecting trash in Goodhue County, Minnesota. That ended when the County passed an ordinance requiring all garbage to be deposited at...

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