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Cup Foods, Inc., et al. v. City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Minnesota, No. A25-1219 · judgment February 23, 2026


1%
estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)
GVR risk 1%

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

Questions presented

  1. Whether Respondents’ actions of murdering George Floyd, placing and maintaining concrete barricades at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago for over one year, and permanently withdrawing police protection from the intersection constituted a per se taking of Petitioners’ properties.

  2. Whether Respondents’ actions of murdering George Floyd, placing and maintaining concrete barricades at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago for over one year, and permanently withdrawing police protection from the intersection constituted a regulatory taking of Petitioners’ properties.

  3. Whether Respondents’ actions of murdering George Floyd, placing and maintaining concrete barricades at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago for over one year, and permanently withdrawing police protection from the intersection constituted right of access taking of Petitioners’ properties.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Benjamin Henry Farrow V
Anderson, Williams & Farrow LLC

For respondent
Adam Edward Szymanski
City of Minneapolis - City Attorney's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Sep 03 2026
    Response Requested. (Due October 5, 2026)
  2. Sep 02 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  3. Aug 27 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent Minneapolis, MN, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Aug 18 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 21, 2026)