Hearings Underway on Shutdown Funding Requests

Special Master Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Kathleen Blatz at 8 a.m. this morning began hearing petitions from a bevy of Minnesota’s nonprofit organizations requesting shutdown funding.

The organizations were not included in the initial ruling of critical core services written by Ramsey County District Court Judge Kathleen Gearin on Wednesday.  

Blatz heard appeals this morning from organizations as varied as the Minnesota Aids Project, Partners for Affordable Housing and the Minnesota coalitions for battered women (MCBW) and the homeless.   

The entire court docket can be found here and live streaming of the hearings is also available.

Blatz will not rule on any of the petitions she hears today. Instead she will consider the arguments made and the degree of authority she was given to expand the list of critical core services.

Blatz is expected to begin ruling on the petitions as early as Saturday.