{"id":"DUT-MN-018","kind":"duty","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Minnesota","state":"MN","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Court of Minnesota (Moore, III, J.; Anderson, J., concurring; Procaccini, J., took no part)","authority":"Minn. Stat. §§ 12.01-12.61 (Emergency Management Act), §§ 12.31, subd. 2; 12.32","instrument":"Snell v. Walz, No. A21-0626 (Minn. May 10, 2024), 6 N.W.3d 458","title":"Snell v. Walz (Snell II): the Emergency Management Act authorizes the declaration of a peacetime emergency in response to a pandemic; no evidentiary showing required; no unconstitutional delegation","dateIssued":"2024-05-10","effective":"2024-05-10 (adjudicating the 2020-2021 peacetime emergency)","end":"standing precedent","startDate":"2024-05-10","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMER","OTHER"],"addressees":["persons generally (the holding governs the validity of orders binding every person and business in the State)"],"clause":"The Emergency Management Act authorizes the declaration of a peacetime emergency in response to a pandemic and did not require the Governor to make an evidentiary showing that the Act\u0027s requirements were satisfied before declaring a peacetime emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.","enforcement":"Not applicable (judicial decision); it confirms the § 12.45 and order-specific penalties were penalties of law.","functions":[],"notes":"The State\u0027s highest court confirmed that every COVID-19 emergency executive order issued from March 13, 2020 to July 1, 2021 rested on valid statutory authority and carried, under § 12.32, \u0027the full force and effect of law\u0027, and that the Act\u0027s delegation to the Governor is constitutional. Character as recorded: adjudication (order_penalty layer).","sourceUrl":"https://mn.gov/law-library-stat/archive/supct/2024/OPA210626-051024.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":4805539,"grade":"primary","character":"adjudication","description":"","collection":"DUT-MN","url":"/library/DUT-MN-018","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MN-018","citation":"Supreme Court of Minnesota (Moore, III, J.; Anderson, J., concurring; Procaccini, J., took no part), Snell v. Walz, No. A21-0626 (Minn. May 10, 2024), 6 N.W.3d 458 (standing) (Ex. DUT-MN-018)","stateName":"Minnesota","related":["DUT-MN-006"]}