Friday, January 24, 2014

Effort To Stop Vikings Stadium By Doug Mann And Others Fails, Here Is The State Supreme Court's January 21 Decision...

Likeness of candidate for public office Doug Mann published on
his Facebook page, here republished under First Amendment Fair
Comment and Criticism, and (joke font) "bullhorn" exception to
copyright, blog post by John Hoff

Doug Mann, a left wing activist who ran for Mayor of Minneapolis, recently attempted to stop the new Vikings stadium project by seeking a writ of prohibition to prevent the sale of bonds to finance the project. On January 21, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued its ruling (click here to view the entire document) which said, in summary, Doug Mann and his co-plaintiffs have no case.

In the ruling's only footnote, the court noted there might not be any claim the plaintiffs can make "upon which relief can be granted."

Unlike my fellow bloggers Hawthorne Hawkman and The Deets, JNS blog has no passionate feelings about the stadium one way or another, but it appears the newsworthy recent ruling has not yet been promulgated online.  The most recent media coverage was by City Pages, "Doug Mann explains how his lawsuit could derail Vikings Stadium."

Yeah...

That didn't happen. That didn't even come CLOSE to happening.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Someone should investigate the multi-generational crime families of downtown Minneapolis . . . the Pohlads, the Taylors, the Wilfs . . .

Johnny Northside! said...

I suspect Doug Mann was commenting on his own article just then, because nobody else appears to care that much.