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[204185/1] 12 will be published in a public newspaper, in a form understandable to the general public.60 61. DNR appealed the District Court’s order to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.61 62. On September 10, 2018, the District Court partially stayed the effectiveness of its order pending the resolution of the appeal by the appellate courts.62 63. In April of 2019, a divided Court of Appeals panel reversed the District Court’s judgment on jurisdictional grounds, dismissed the Associations’ Public Trust Doctrine claim and remanded Petitioners’ Minnesota Environmental Rights Act claim for administrative proceedings.63 64. In May of 2019, the Associations petitioned for further review of the Court of Appeals’ decision by Minnesota Supreme Court, and their petition was granted.64 65. Following a remand from the Minnesota Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court’s order in part, but also allowed permit holders to request a contested case hearing prior to any of the permit amendments being effective.65 66. Importantly, while the Court of Appeals allowed permit holders to request a contested case hearing on the amendments, the appellate panel made clear that the permit holders could not relitigate whether “appropriations within a five-mile radius of the lake have or will have a negative impact on surface waters” of White Bear Lake.66 67. In setting out this middle path, the appellate panel did not rule out the possibility of inconsistent judgments between the outcomes of the District Court litigation and the contested case processes. It noted: We nevertheless caution the district court that heed must be taken of the permit holders’ statutory right to a hearing as it administers the injunction and that, depending on the evidence adduced at the contested-case hearings, modifications may be appropriate.67 60 Id. 61 See White Bear Lake Restoration Ass’n v. Dep’t of Nat. Res., et. Al., No. A18-0750, 2020 WL 7690268, slip op. at *10 (Minn. Ct. App. 2020) (WBL III). 62 See WBL I, 928 N.W.2d at 358. 63 White Bear Lake Restoration Ass’n ex rel. State v. Minn. Dep’t of Nat. Res., 928 N.W.2d 351, 368-75 (Minn. App. 2019) (WBL I). 64 See Petition for Further Review, A18-0750 (Minn. 2019); White Bear Lake Restoration Ass’n ex rel. State v. Minnesota Dep’t of Nat. Res., 946 N.W.2d 373, 379 (Minn. 2020) (WBL II). 65 WBL III, slip op. at *9-*11. 66 Id. at 10. 67 WBL III, slip op. at *11; Minn. R. 6115.0740, subp. 3 and Minn. R. 6115.0750, subp. 5(c) (2023) extend the right to a contested case hearing prior to “[a]ll actions” “amendments and modifications” to water appropriation permits.