In the last couple of years the landscape of Minnesota landlord-tenant anti-retaliation law has changed. In Cent. Hous. Assocs. v. Olson, 929 N.W.2d 398 (Minn. 2019) the state supreme court slightly limited the reach of Minn. Stat. § 504B.441 but also promulgated a new common-law anti-retaliation rule. Therefore I put together this review (in PDF and in Word) of current Minnesota anti-retaliation law.
The review refers to three appendices, Appendices 1-3, that include difficult-to-obtain court records about the federal district court case underlying Cloverdale Foods v. Pioneer Snacks, 580 N.W.2d 46 (Minn. App. 1998) (“difficult” meaning time consuming, not requiring rocket-scientist reasoning). It also refers to Appendix 4, which gathers the characteristics and limitations of the various anti-retaliation laws into one chart.
The four appendices are available via these links: Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3, Appendix 4
This essay derives in large part from a Continuing Legal Education seminar I gave in September 2019. The CLE is now available for viewing in on-demand mode for 1.0 hour of Minnesota CLE credit via the Hennepin County Bar Association website, see https://www.mnbar.org/members/cle-events/hcba-on-demand-cle.
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