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Minn. Stat. § 555.12 (2026)
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This chapter is declared to be remedial; its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status, and other legal relations; and is to be liberally construed and administered.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 16
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1952–2025 · leading case: Dokmo v. Indep. Sch. Dist. No. 11, 459 N.W.2d 671 (Minn. 1990).
Dokmo v. Indep. Sch. Dist. No. 11, 459 N.W.2d 671 (Minn. 1990). “01 (1988) states, "Courts of record within their respective jurisdictions shall have power to declare rights, status, and other legal relations whether or not further relief is or could be claimed.”
Ethan Dean v. City of Winona, 868 N.W.2d 1 (Minn. 2015). “65, and declaratory relief, which, “liberally construed and administered” under Minn. Stat. § 555.12 (2014), may be secured by “speedy hearing,” Minn.”
Matter of Conservatorship of Torres, 357 N.W.2d 332 (Minn. 1984). “, it too provides authority for the probate court's order of April 6, 1984. A final source of the probate court's authority to order removal of a conservatee's life supports lies in Minnesota's Patients' and Residents of Health Care Facilities; Bill of Rights, Minn.”
McCaughtry v. City of Red Wing, 808 N.W.2d 331 (Minn. 2011). “1978); see also Minn.Stat. § 555.12 (stating that the Act “is to be liberally construed and administered”).”
Rice Lake Contracting Corp. v. Rust Env't & Infrastructure, Inc., 549 N.W.2d 96 (Minn. Ct. App. 1996). “1978); see also Minn.Stat. § 555.12 (1994) (stating that declaratory judgment statute is remedial: "its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status and other legal relations; and [it] is to be liberally construed and…”
All. for Metro. Stability v. Metro. Council, 671 N.W.2d 905 (Minn. Ct. App. 2003). “A declaratory judgment may be entered regardless of whether “further relief is or could be claimed,” and it will lie when “legal relations are affected by a statute, municipal ordinance, contract, or franchise.” Minn.”
Hempel v. Creek House Trust, 743 N.W.2d 305 (Minn. Ct. App. 2007). “” Minn.Stat. § 555.12 (2004). “The main characteristic of the declaratory judgment which distinguishes it from other judgments is that, by the act authorizing it, courts are empowered to adjudicate upon disputed legal rights whether or not further relief is or could be claimed.”
In Re the Welfare of K.S., 427 N.W.2d 653 (Minn. 1988). “Minn.Stat. § 555.12 (1986). This court has recognized that the declaratory judgment action, in a sense, is “an all-purpose writ.”
Hoeft v. Hennepin Cnty., 754 N.W.2d 717 (Minn. Ct. App. 2008). “” Minn. Stat. § 555.12 (2006). A declaratory-judgment action must present a justiciable controversy or a district court has no jurisdiction to declare rights under the act.”
Lighthouse Mgmt. Grp., Inc. v. Deutsche Bank Trust Co. of Americas, 380 F. Supp. 3d 911 (D. Me. 2019). “Minn. Stat. § 555.12 . "The Act, however, is not an express independent source of jurisdiction.”
Harrington v. Fairchild, 51 N.W.2d 71 (Minn. 1952). “) Finally § 555.12 provides : “This chapter is declared to be remedial; its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect *441 to rights, status and other legal relations; and is to be liberally-construed and administered.”
Ditzler v. Spee, 180 N.W.2d 178 (Minn. 1970). “” § 555.12. In discussing the use of declaratory judgments where carriers seek to disclaim liability, Borchard, Declaratory Judgments (2 ed.”
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