Minnesota Captive Audience Law Dodges Challenge at 8th Cir. (1)

Business groups challenging Minnesota’s union-backed limits on mandatory workplace meetings failed to show the imminent enforcement threat needed to advance their lawsuit over state officials’ sovereign immunity claims, a federal appeals court ruled.

A divided panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit found in a 2-1 decision the case should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, without reaching the merits of the First Amendment challenge to the state’s ban on captive audience meetings. The appellate decision overturns a lower court’s 2024 ruling that declined to dismiss the case.

The Minnesota Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors ...