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IN RE CONTEST OF GENERAL ELECTION

No. A09-697.

767 N.W.2d 453 (2009)

In the Matter of the CONTEST OF GENERAL ELECTION HELD ON NOVEMBER 4, 2008, FOR the PURPOSE OF ELECTING A UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM the STATE OF MINNESOTA, Cullen Sheehan and Norm Coleman, contestants, Appellants, v. Al Franken, contestee, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 30, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph S. Friedberg, Joseph S. Friedberg Chartered, James K. Langdon, Gretchen Agee, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Minneapolis, MN; Tony P. Trimble, Matthew W. Haapoja, Trimble & Associates, Ltd., Minnetonka, MN; and Frederic W. Knaak, Knaak & Kantrud, P.A., Vadnais Heights, MN, for appellants.

Marc E. Elias, Kevin J. Hamilton, Lisa Marshall Manheim, Perkins Coie LLP, Washington, D.C.; and David L. Lillehaug, Richard D. Snyder, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for respondent.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Appellants, incumbent Republican United States Senator Norm Coleman and Cullen Sheehan, filed a notice of election contest under Minn.Stat. § 209.021 (2008), challenging the State Canvassing Board's certification that Democratic-Farmer-Labor challenger Al Franken was entitled to receive a certificate of election as United States Senator following the November 4, 2008 general election. After a trial, the three-judge trial court we...

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