{"id":36882,"date":"2014-01-14T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=36882"},"modified":"2014-01-14T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:59:34","slug":"lawsuit-may-delay-opening-vikes-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=36882","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit May Delay Opening, Vikes Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/newvikingsstadium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17833\" alt=\"newvikingsstadiumTHUMB\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/newvikingsstadium.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) &#8211; A state agency that was to sell bonds for the Minnesota Vikings stadium says a lawsuit holding up that $468 million offering is flawed.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Department of Minnesota Management and Budget lawyers pressed the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to dismiss the case. It was filed Friday, a few days before a scheduled bond sale was to occur. The lawyers argue the lawsuit&#8217;s existence has cast a &#8220;material cloud&#8221; in the minds of investors and needs to be resolved quickly.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Former Minneapolis mayoral candidate Doug Mann and two others are challenging the constitutionality of the state&#8217;s stadium funding plan, which split construction costs for the $1 billion facility between the team and the public.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Officials warn a prolonged delay could leave bills unpaid and push out a planned summer 2016 opening.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Supreme Court has given sides in a Vikings stadium funding lawsuit until Thursday to answer two key questions.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In an order Tuesday, the high court says it wants clarity on whether justices have jurisdiction to intervene and whether people seeking to stop the stadium&#8217;s construction have grounds to do so.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The court didn&#8217;t say if it will call a full hearing into the lawsuit, which has already led state officials to postpone a $468 million bond sale. Stadium authority officials warn a drawn-out process could lead to crippling delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) &#8211; A state agency that was to sell bonds for the Minnesota Vikings stadium says a lawsuit holding up that $468 million offering is flawed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Department of Minnesota Management and Budget lawyers pressed the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to dismiss the case. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36886,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36882\/revisions\/36886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}