Rice Street VFW, Post 3877 v. City of St. Paul

OPINION

SHORT, Judge.

The City of St. Paul appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment for respondent Rice Street VFW, Post No. 3877, in a declaratory judgment action questioning the validity of a St. Paul ordinance. That ordinance required organizations conducting charitable gambling to contribute part of net profits to a fund operated by the city, for distribution to youth organizations in St. Paul. The trial court held the ordinance violated the statutory ban on local taxation of charitable gambling, and declared that the city was estopped from applying the ordinance to the VFW.…