Commissioner of Natural Resources v. Nicollet County Public Water/Wetlands Hearings Unit

OPINION

HALBROOKS, Judge

Appellants in this matter are the daughters of William Bode, the original landowner. A portion of appellants’ land was determined to be a protected wetland by a 1986 district court judgment reversing a prior administrative decision. Appellants’ earlier challenge to that judgment, based on lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, was unsuccessful.

Appellants subsequently moved to vacate the 1986 judgment of the district court based on lack of personal jurisdiction over their father, alleging that the notice of hearing on the appeal to the district court violated due-process…