Title: Elvira O. Ramirez, Respondent, vs. Marathon Ashland Oil, and ACE Insurance Company administered by Frank Gates Services Company, Relators, and Regina Medical Center, Allina, Summit Orthopedics, Walgreen Company, St. Paul Radiology, Therapy Partners, Inc., Center for Diagnostic Imaging, and Primary Behavior Health Clinic, Intervenors.

State: minnesota

Issuer: Minnesota Supreme Court

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1 STATE OF MINNESOTA IN SUPREME COURT A08-2151 Elvira O. Ramirez, Respondent, vs. Marathon Ashland Oil, and ACE Insurance Company administered by Frank Gates Services Company, Relators, and Regina Medical Center, Allina, Summit Orthopedics, Walgreen Company, St. Paul Radiology, Therapy Partners, Inc., Center for Diagnostic Imaging, and Primary Behavior Health Clinic, Intervenors. ________________________________ Jackson S. Baehman, Woodbury, Minnesota, for respondent. Edward Q. Cassidy, Krista A.P. Hatcher, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for relators. _______________________________ 2 Considered and decided by the court without oral argument. O R D E R Based upon all the files, records and proceedings herein, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals filed November 17, 2008, be, and the same is, affirmed without opinion. See Hoff v. Kempton, 317 N.W.2d 361, 366 (Minn. 1982) (explaining that “[s]ummary 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). Employee is awarded $1,200 in attorney fees. Dated: March 31, 2009 BY THE COURT: /s/ G. Barry Anderson Associate Justice