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STATE OF MINNESOTA IN SUPREME COURT A08-815

Wallace J. Lawrence, Respondent, vs. Willman Trucking, Inc., and SFM Insurance Company, Relators, and Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology, Healthpartners, Unity Hospital, and Orthopaedic Partners, P.A., Intervenors. ________________________________

Howard S. Carp, Borkon, Ramstead, Mariani, Fishman & Carp, Ltd., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for respondent. Steven T. Scharfenberg, Lynn, Scharfenberg & Associates, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for relators. _______________________________

Considered and decided by the court without oral argument.

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ORDER Based upon all the files, records and proceedings herein, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the decision of the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals filed April 14, 2008, be, and the same is, affirmed without opinion. See Hoff v. Kempton, 317 N.W.2d 361, 366 (Minn. 1982) (explaining that "[s]ummary affirmances have no precedential value because they do not commit the court to any particular point of view," doing no more than establishing the law of the case). Employee is awarded $1,200 in attorney fees. Dated: August 19, 2008 BY THE COURT:

/s/ Eric J. Magnuson Chief Justice DIETZEN, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.

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