By Christopher Magan | Twin Cities Pioneer Press
“A Ramsey County District Court judge will hear initial arguments Thursday in a lawsuit aimed at dismantling Minnesota’s union protections for public school teachers.
State and local leaders want Judge Margaret M. Marrinan to dismiss the case, saying the lawsuit is an attempt to change long-standing state laws through the court system rather than the Legislature.
‘Plaintiffs’ pithy and dismissive rhetoric aside, the actual allegations in the (lawsuit) are nothing but an attempt by a handful of parents to get a court to do what the Legislature would not do,’ attorneys for the St. Paul Public Schools wrote recently in a legal brief supporting the dismissal request.”