Silva v. Maplewood Care Center

This court has the inherent and statutory authority to promulgate rules regulating pleadings and procedure in the courts of this state. See Minn.Stat. § 480.051 (1996); State v. Willis, 332 N.W.2d 180, 184 (Minn.1983). However, the majority’s strained application of a rule of civil procedure to an administrative proceeding raises, in my view, serious concerns about the separation of powers, while skirting the important constitutional issue before us. I respectfully dissent.

Long ago, this court acknowledged that the legislature could delegate quasi-judicial power over workers’ compensation…