DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE v. VENTURA

No. C3-01-329.

632 N.W.2d 707 (2001)

DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE; Sierra Club, North Star Chapter; Humane Society of the United States; Friends of Animals and Their Environment; Help Our Wolves Live; Minnesota Wolf Alliance; and the Animal Protection Institute, Appellants, v. Jesse VENTURA, in his capacity as Governor of the State of Minnesota, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Review Denied October 24, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian B. O'Neill, Richard A. Duncan, Elizabeth H. Schmiesing, Chad M. Oldfather, Faegre & Benson, L.L.P., Minneapolis, for appellants.

Mike Hatch, Attorney General, David P. Iverson, Assistant Attorney General, Joan M. Eichhorst, Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul, for respondent.

Considered and decided by TOUSSAINT, Chief Judge, and RANDALL, Judge, and HARTEN, Judge.


OPINION

R.A. RANDALL, Judge.

Appellants challenge the constitutionality of 2000 Minn. Laws ch. 463, arguing that it violates the single-subject requirement of Minn. Const. art. IV, § 17 and was the product of impermissible legislative logrolling. We find that chapter 463 does not violate the single-subject requirement of the constitution. Affirmed.

FACTS

The gray wolf (timber wolf), once listed as an endangered species by the federal...

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