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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Roberto U. VARELA LEAL, Respondent, v. KNIFE RIVER CORPORATION, and Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies, Relators,
    Integrated Care Clinics, P.A., Big Lake Spine & Sport, P.A., Workmed Midwest, P.A., Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, Mickelson Rehabilitation, Intervenors.
    A17-0527
    Supreme Court of Minnesota.
    Dated: April 10, 2018
    Karl F. von Reuter, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for respondent.
    Joshua M. Steinbrecher, Alison R. Umland, Heacox, Hartman, Koshmrl, Cosgriff, Johnson, Lane & Feenstra, P.A., Saint Paul, Minnesota, for relators.
    Considered and decided by the court without oral argument.
    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 March 3, 2017, be, and the same is, affirmed without opinion. See Hoff v. Kempton , 317 N.W.2d 361, 366 (Minn. 1982) ("Summary affirmances have no precedential value because they do not commit the court to any particular point of view. They do no more than establish the law of the case.").

Employee is awarded $1,200 in attorney fees.

BY THE COURT:

/s/ ______________________________

Lorie S. Gildea

Chief Justice