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In Weis, the supreme court again addressed a constitutional challenge to the mandatory-retirement provision by the Honorable Rainer L. Weis.
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No. C0-90-1635.
August 24, 1990.
Appeal from District Court, Ramsey County; James M. Lynch, Judge.
Rainer L. Weis, St. Cloud, for appellant.
Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Richard S. Slowes, Asst. Sol. Gen., St. Paul, for respondents.
Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.
We granted accelerated review on petition of the Honorable Rainer L. Weis, Retired, to reaffirm the position of this court enunciated in Saetre v. State, 398 N.W.2d 538 (Minn. 1986), upholding the constitutionality of the legislative pronouncements with regard to the mandatory retirement of members of the state's judiciary. See also Gregory v. Ashcroft, 898 F.2d 598 (8th Cir. 1990). The summary judgment of dismissal of the plaintiff's complaint is accordingly affirmed.
Affirmed.