Case ID: nw2d_739/html/0159-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "/s/Helen M. Meyer Associate Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mark D. SCHMITT, Respondent, v. INNOVATIVE LAWN SYSTEMS, INC., Respondent, and American Interstate Insurance Co., Respondent, and West Bend Mutual Insurance Co., Relator, and MN Dept. of Labor & Industry, Voc. Rehab. Unit, MN Dept. of Human Services, St. Paul Radiology, Regions Hospital, Intervenors, and Special Compensation Fund.
    No. A07-1212.
    Supreme Court of Minnesota.
    Sept. 26, 2007.
    Matthew P. Bandt, Jardine, Logan & O’Brien, PLLP, Lake Elmo, MN, for relator West Bend Mutual Insurance Co.
    John H. Guthmann, Trisha A. Vicario, Hansen, Dordell, Bradt, Odlaug & Bradt, PLLP, St. Paul, MN, for respondent Innovative Lawn Systems.
    Jay T. Hartman, Tracy M. Borash, Hea-cox, Hartman, Koshmrl, Cosgriff & Johnson, PA, St. Paul, MN, for respondent American Interstate Ins. Co.
    Thaddeus V. Jude, St. Paul, MN, Rory H. Foley, Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul, MN, for Special Compensation Fund.
   ORDER

Based upon all the files, records and proceedings herein,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals filed May 24, 2007, be, and the same is, affirmed without opinion. See Hoff v. Kempton, 317 N.W.2d 361, 366 (Minn.1982) (explaining that “[sjummary affirmances have no precedential value because they do not commit the court to any particular point of view,” doing no more than establishing the law of the case).

BY THE COURT:

/s/Helen M. Meyer Associate Justice