Lifteau v. Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission

YETKA, Justice.

Appeal by defendants from an order of the Ramsey County District Court enjoining them from implementing L.1977, c. 89, the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Act. The district court held that the expenditures in the Act were for a public purpose and that the metropolitan area was a proper taxing . district. The court ruled, however, that the Act was unconstitutional because it failed to express its subject fully in its title; it failed to pass the legislature by a three- fifths vote; and it impermissibly excluded three metropolitan municipalities from its taxing provisions.…