Enterprise Leasing Company, Doing Business as Enterprise Rent-A-Car, a Minnesota Corporation v. Metropolitan Airports Commission, a Public Corporation

LAY, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the question of whether Minnesota law authorized the Metropolitan Airports Commission (“MAC”) to impose an 8.5 percent gross revenue fee on certain rental car companies doing business at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airport (“Airport”). Upon full review, we find that the district court erred as a matter of law in holding that MAC exceeded its statutory authority by imposing the fee.

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Enterprise Leasing Company is a Minnesota corporation doing business as Enterprise Rent-A-Car (“Enterprise”). MAC is a public corporation chartered by the State of…