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Chambers Self-Storage Oakdale, LLC v. Washington County, Minnesota

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Minnesota, No. A21-0825 · judgment March 9, 2022


Certiorari denied · November 7, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Does the right to Due Process under the U.S. Constitution prohibit a State from depriving real property taxpayers the right to conduct discovery of the assessment data and assessment methods, used by the government, in its assessment of the subject property as well as the assessment of similarly situated properties, thus limiting a property taxpayer’s ability to conduct a full inquiry and afforded full due process at a hearing on a taxpayer’s constitutional claim of unequal assessment of its property as compared to similarly situated properties?

  2. Does the Equal Protection clause permit a State, either legislatively, or through case law, to deny real property taxpayers the right to fully dispose of all constitutional claims to limit the taxpayers’ ability to seek relief from unequal assessments resulting from unequal assessment methodologies - or the unequal application of assessment methodologies - by assessing officials?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Diana Lynn Longrie
Longrie Law Office

For respondent
James C. Zuleger
Washington County Attorney's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Jan 09 2023
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Dec 14 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/6/2023.
  3. Dec 02 2022
  4. Nov 07 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Oct 19 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/4/2022.
  6. Oct 11 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent County of Washington to respond filed.
  7. Jun 07 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 17, 2022)