Minnesota Supreme Court, 1994

Fogie v. Rent-A-Center, Inc.

Minnesota Supreme Court · Decided June 24, 1994 · Tomljanovich

518 N.W.2d 544; 1994 Minn. LEXIS 478; 1994 WL 278186 (North Western Reporter, Second Series)

Counsel

David L. Ramp, Legal Aid Soe. of Mpls., Inc., Seymour J. Mansfield, Richard J. Fuller, Mansfield & Tannick, P.A., Mark N. Stageberg, Kay Nord Hunt, Lommen, Nelson, Cole & Stageberg, P.A., and Timothy L. Thompson, Minneapolis, for plaintiffs., John Troyer, J. Patrick McDavitt, Briggs and Morgan, Minneapolis, and John C. Dods, Peter E. Strand, Shannon Spangler, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, for defendants., Elmer B. Trousdale, Christopher M. Scot-ti, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, St. Paul, for amicus curiae, Minnesota Retail Merchants Ass’n.

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Minn. Stat. § 334.01 — amended 2002
Minn. Stat. § 480.061 — amended 1998 (since repealed)

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Cases that cite this one

8 later published cases cite this decision. The 7 that cite it most often are listed here.

Starks v. Rent-a-Center (8th Cir. 1995)
Vickie Fogie v. Thorn Americas, Inc. (8th Cir. 1999)
Fogie v. Thorn Americas, Inc. (8th Cir. 1996)
Danger v. Nextep Funding, LLC (District Court, D. Maine 2019)
Danger v. Nextep Funding, LLC (D. Minn. 2019)
Vickie Fogie v. Thorn Americas (8th Cir. 1996)
Starks v. Rent-A-Center (8th Cir. 1995)

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Opinion

OPINION

TOMLJANOVICH, Justice.

The following questions were certified to this court from federal district court pursuant to Minn.Stat. § 480.061 (1992): (1) Are rent-to-own contracts consumer credit sales under Minn.Stat. § 325G.15 (1992)? (2) Does the usury statute, Minn.Stat. § 334.01 (1992), apply to rent-to-own contracts? For the reasons set forth in Miller v. Colortyme, Inc., 518 N.W.2d 544 (Minn., 1994), we answer both questions in the affirmative.

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