LEIENDECKER v. ASIAN WOMEN UNITED OF MINN.

Nos. A12-1978, A12-2015.

848 N.W.2d 224 (2014)

Lawrence LEIENDECKER, et al., Respondents, v. ASIAN WOMEN UNITED OF MINNESOTA, et al., Appellants, Greenstein, Mabley & Wall, L.L.C., et al., Respondents, Ruvelson & Kautzer, Ltd., et al., Respondents, Maria Gloria Fressia, et al., Appellants, Susan L. Triplett, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 25, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Gunther , Virnig & Gunther PLLC, Minneapolis, MN, for respondents Lawrence and Sinuon Leiendecker.

Kay Nord Hunt , Phillip A. Cole , Bryan R. Feldhaus , Lommen, Abdo, Cole, King & Stageberg, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for appellants Asian Women United of Minnesota, Melani Suarez, and Claudia R. Stahl.

Thomas P. Kane , Nadia B. Hasan , Cozen O'Connor, Minneapolis, MN, for respondents Greenstein, Mabley & Wall, L.L.C., and Frank T. Mabley.

Patrick J. Sauter , Bassford Remele, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for appellants Maria Gloria Fressia, Suzanne M. Cook, Valerie F. Wurster, Kristine M. Arneson, Hong-Ngoc (Ruby) H.N. Nguyen, Naweichi Temu, Regina M. Chu, Saran B. Crayton, Quoc-Bao Doan Do, and Sushila R. Shah.

Raleigh H. Levine , William Mitchell College of Law, Teresa J. Nelson , Ian Bratlie , American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota.


OPINION

STRAS, Justice.

For the past 10 years, respondents Sinuon Leiendecker and her husband Lawrence Leiendecker have been embroiled in litigation with appellant Asian Women United of Minnesota ("AWUM"), a nonprofit organization that Sinuon once directed and for which Lawrence, an attorney, once did pro bono work. In this case, the fifth in a series of lawsuits between the parties, the Leiendeckers contend that AWUM and the other defendants committed various...

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