In re Minnesota Intoxilyzer 5000EN Source Code Litigation

Summary

The Minnesota Supreme Court considers whether to terminate its statewide assignment order directing Judge Jerome B. Abrams to handle pretrial matters involving challenges to the reliability of Intoxilyzer 5000EN results based on alleged source-code defects. In light of its decision affirming Judge Abrams’s evidentiary rulings, the court concludes that the assignment order’s purpose appears fulfilled and invites any interested party to explain why the assignment should continue.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the statewide assignment order for pretrial Intoxilyzer 5000EN source-code challenges should continue after the Supreme Court affirmed the assigned judge's evidentiary rulings.

Disposition

other