Patrick Doyle v. Municipal Commission of the State of Minnesota

In this case, the appellants, residents of Burnside Township, seek to enjoin the consolidation of their township with the nearby City of Red Wing, Minnesota. They claim that the procedures under which a state agency 1 effected consolidation of these two units of local government denied the residents of the township, who were unwillingly absorbed into the city, their constitutional rights to equal protection and due process. Ruling that the plaintiffs’ complaint raised no substantial constitutional claim, the district court (Chief Judge Devitt) refused appellants’ request to convene a…