Court Opinion

ID: 9691326
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 20:25:43.248164+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:16.891912
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ORDER
This court, having considered en banc the petitions for rehearing in the above entitled case,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:
1. In its petition for rehearing, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (as one of its arguments) calls our attention to an amendment to Minn.Stat. § 549.09, the pre-verdict interest statute, enacted by the 1988 legislature, effective April 13,1988 “to all cases then pending.” See 1988 Minn.Laws ch. 503, § 6. The “cases then pending” provision means that the 1988 amendment to subdivision 1, which relates only to the rate of interest, was to be effective April 13; contrary to Goodyear’s contention, the “pending” language has no effect on the remainder of subdivision 1 allowing pre-verdict interest which was already in force and was left undisturbed by the 1988 amendment.
2. In all respects, the petitions for rehearing of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Motor Wheel Corporation, and Remer Oil Company are denied and stay vacated.
3. No award of attorney fees pursuant to Minn.R.Civ.App.P. 140.03 is allowed.
4. The taxation of costs and disbursements by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and by Dale L. Hodder are hereby denied.
COYNE, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.