Save Our Creeks v. City of Brooklyn Park

OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

The City of Brooklyn Park appeals from an order denying its motion to dismiss respondent corporation Save Our Creeks’s (SOC) declaratory-judgment action. The city argues that the district court erred in concluding that a complaint signed by a nonlawyer on behalf of SOC, in derogation of the rule that a corporation must be represented by counsel in a legal proceeding, could be amended to add an attorney’s signature. The city also argues that the district court erred in allowing the amendment to relate back to the original pleading to forestall the running of the statute…