Daniel Suitor
@danielsuitor.com
Attorney for the people, for hire. Landlords do not @ me. danielsuitor.com
New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
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Daniel P. Suitor, Attorney at Law | Tenants' Rights Attorney Minnesota
A Minnesota-based attorney with a focus on tenants' rights cases and community service | Daniel P. Suitor, Attorney at Law
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I first posted this at 10pm on Friday, but to provide a more serious explanation of what I’m doing here:
I've officially gone into business for myself. After being fired for my choice of pro bono cases 3 months ago, I’ve been doing a few stray cases, but it's time to make things formal.
I've officially gone into business for myself. After being fired for my choice of pro bono cases 3 months ago, I’ve been doing a few stray cases, but it's time to make things formal.
take a peek into the median northwestern suburban mind and you'll find someone seething at the idea a court could order their kid to enroll in Minneapolis Public Schools JUST because the schools are good and it's closer to their home and the community they've lived in most of their conscious life
dedicating more than 2 pages of your Petition for Review in an ongoing custody case to trashing Minneapolis Public Schools is the ideal litigation strategy. you may not like it, but this is what peak suburban mind looks like.
![decision-making logic—it’s akin to building a bridge without checking where it
leads (App Brief p.20-21).
o Further, the district court nevertheless relied heavily on continuity to favor
Kenny, while declining to assess the future schools that continuity
necessarily commits [CHILD'S NAME REDACTED] to. The court thereby adopted two mutually
exclusive positions—a textbook error. Additionally, the court failed to
recognize that starting kindergarten at Kenny is itself a material transition,
despite [CHILD'S NAME REDACTED] attending a separate preschool in the same building (App
Reply Brief p.21-22).
Under Factor 2, the district court defined school building continuity as a
“recommended service” or “special parenting arrangement” and used that
distortion to favor Kenny. That is not a close call or a debatable interpretation—it
is objectively wrong (App Brief p.25-26 / App Reply Brief p.17).
The district court treated Wayzata’s recent intradistrict redistricting as if it made
enrollment at Gleason Lake uncertain or subject to open enrollment, which is
objectively wrong. The record contains direct, transparent confirmation from
Wayzata Schools’ enrollment office that [CHILD'S NAME REDACTED] is fully eligible and guaranteed a
spot at Gleason Lake. The record further demonstrates that Respondent’s earlier
contrary position stemmed from a misunderstanding later clarified by the school.
The district court had no discretion to contradict the school district’s own
objective determination, yet it did so anyway (App Brief p.15).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:osddisjyzzqy6h5754lnw4s2/bafkreidpelfbjcrbzu3blsysord3hi5au7ez3moxplsi2d3lxusfuagpia@jpeg)
January 6, 2026 at 4:53 PM
take a peek into the median northwestern suburban mind and you'll find someone seething at the idea a court could order their kid to enroll in Minneapolis Public Schools JUST because the schools are good and it's closer to their home and the community they've lived in most of their conscious life
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Today in pro se family appeals: a dissatisfied father objects the the Court of Appeals ruling that it's actually okay for your kid to go to Minneapolis public schools even if you have access to the vaunted Plymouth school district
![The resulting school choice order reads as a sustained one-sided defense of Respondent, portraying Appellant negatively at every turn while presupposing the conclusion that Minneapolis Public Schools are superior for [CHILD'S NAME REDACTED]—despite conclusions that can’t be reconciled with the record and defy any reasonable reading of it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:osddisjyzzqy6h5754lnw4s2/bafkreidl4cabers2r2ehwv343ojy5dl74f72anbmu63ijua73tnh4vgm4i@jpeg)
January 6, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Today in pro se family appeals: a dissatisfied father objects the the Court of Appeals ruling that it's actually okay for your kid to go to Minneapolis public schools even if you have access to the vaunted Plymouth school district
damn lol
Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated.
It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans.
And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question.
My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵
It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans.
And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question.
My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵
We Still Don’t Know if Robotaxis Are Safer Than Human Drivers
And even if self-driving technology proves to be less dangerous, there are many better ways to improve traffic safety and prevent fatal crashes.
www.bloomberg.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
damn lol
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Huge news today! That's right, at our Park Board meeting this Wednesday at 5pm I will introduce two resolutions. The first is to restart our Open Parkways work. The second would direct staff to reopen work on following the long range plan for the Uptown Mall Park!
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January 5, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Huge news today! That's right, at our Park Board meeting this Wednesday at 5pm I will introduce two resolutions. The first is to restart our Open Parkways work. The second would direct staff to reopen work on following the long range plan for the Uptown Mall Park!
agendasuite.org/iip/mprb/mee...
agendasuite.org/iip/mprb/mee...
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One thing I hope Klobuchar fans are willing to do — and I say this with utmost sincerity — is explain how she’s used her power to advance good things that might not have otherwise happened. How she’s wielded power, especially in less-seen ways, to help the less powerful.
January 6, 2026 at 3:21 AM
One thing I hope Klobuchar fans are willing to do — and I say this with utmost sincerity — is explain how she’s used her power to advance good things that might not have otherwise happened. How she’s wielded power, especially in less-seen ways, to help the less powerful.
[to the tune of "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off" www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWZi... ]
🎶 You don't haaave to vote for
Bad Dems
Just run progressives
Not Klob 🎶
🎶 You don't haaave to vote for
Bad Dems
Just run progressives
Not Klob 🎶
we don't need to run a dead-eyed sociopath who unapologetically oversaw one of the most disgusting eras of the Hennepin County Attorney's Office and continually votes for Trumps nominees/judges for governor. people hate Trump so much we can scribble "DFL" on a moldly pronto pup and it'd win by 6 pts
January 6, 2026 at 3:22 AM
[to the tune of "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off" www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWZi... ]
🎶 You don't haaave to vote for
Bad Dems
Just run progressives
Not Klob 🎶
🎶 You don't haaave to vote for
Bad Dems
Just run progressives
Not Klob 🎶
the people working overtime to explain to me why It's Good to Have a A Bad Democrat, Actually, As Our Governor should simply support Good DFLers for governor
January 6, 2026 at 2:49 AM
the people working overtime to explain to me why It's Good to Have a A Bad Democrat, Actually, As Our Governor should simply support Good DFLers for governor
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weird local remake of the “bohemian rhapsody” video with park board’s jason garcia, BET’s steve brandt, and city council’s mike rainville today
January 6, 2026 at 1:52 AM
weird local remake of the “bohemian rhapsody” video with park board’s jason garcia, BET’s steve brandt, and city council’s mike rainville today
going to devote the rest of my legal career to building up a resume as a corporate defense attorney in order to get a job as in-house counsel with Bristol-Myers Squibb so that, once I'm undercover, I can ensure we get a pristine 4K release of The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
doing normal things with my day (pestering pharmaceutical companies that own the rights to 1970s films who refuse to issue physical media releases of them)
January 5, 2026 at 10:56 PM
going to devote the rest of my legal career to building up a resume as a corporate defense attorney in order to get a job as in-house counsel with Bristol-Myers Squibb so that, once I'm undercover, I can ensure we get a pristine 4K release of The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
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we need a hangover day for parent recovery after the holidays, nobody should have to do work until they've had a day of peace and quiet at home
January 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
we need a hangover day for parent recovery after the holidays, nobody should have to do work until they've had a day of peace and quiet at home
when u can't discourse because ur in trial (waiting around on zoom)
January 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
when u can't discourse because ur in trial (waiting around on zoom)
what a morning to be in trial on a case you took Saturday afternoon
Today's edition of Minnesota Appellate Court Watch will be delayed because I took a case over the weekend with a trial set for this morning. 44 hours notice!
January 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
what a morning to be in trial on a case you took Saturday afternoon
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At today's inauguration ceremony I will be celebrating hometown Wedge hero Jason Garcia, who overcame so much, and took on an endless string of much better funded opponents, to become your district 4 commissioner on the Minneapolis Park & Rec Board.
January 5, 2026 at 3:23 PM
At today's inauguration ceremony I will be celebrating hometown Wedge hero Jason Garcia, who overcame so much, and took on an endless string of much better funded opponents, to become your district 4 commissioner on the Minneapolis Park & Rec Board.
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I will never vote for Amy Klobuchar for any office as long as I live. Not even once
January 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
I will never vote for Amy Klobuchar for any office as long as I live. Not even once
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seems what i heard a few hours ago is true and tim walz is dropping tomorrow. my sources also couldn’t confirm it at the time though
January 5, 2026 at 4:30 AM
seems what i heard a few hours ago is true and tim walz is dropping tomorrow. my sources also couldn’t confirm it at the time though
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THE WRONG KIND OF WINNING: Across Minnesota, evictions in 2025 may hit or just about tie with the record achieved in 2023. That's not a great accomplishment. Rising rents and incomes that haven't caught up tell part of the story. Here's some other factors: www.twincities.com/2026/01/04/e...
Eviction filings may reach statewide record in 2025
Some 23,000-25,000 eviction cases were filed in 2025, well above the pre-pandemic average of 15,000.
www.twincities.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:02 PM
THE WRONG KIND OF WINNING: Across Minnesota, evictions in 2025 may hit or just about tie with the record achieved in 2023. That's not a great accomplishment. Rising rents and incomes that haven't caught up tell part of the story. Here's some other factors: www.twincities.com/2026/01/04/e...
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it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
January 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"
I would really love to pitch a 2-credit law school seminar teaching deposition, mediation, negotiation, and examination tactics/rhetoric using nontraditional sources like Isaac Chotiner interviews and an episode of a baseball podcast where they roleplayed trade offers for Shohei Otani for an hour
January 4, 2026 at 3:17 AM
I would really love to pitch a 2-credit law school seminar teaching deposition, mediation, negotiation, and examination tactics/rhetoric using nontraditional sources like Isaac Chotiner interviews and an episode of a baseball podcast where they roleplayed trade offers for Shohei Otani for an hour
Vinegar Syndrome releasing THE GAMBLER Caan heads we eatin' good
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Vinegar Syndrome releasing THE GAMBLER Caan heads we eatin' good
Forever Wars 2: Sudamerica Boogaloo
Trump: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition."
January 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Forever Wars 2: Sudamerica Boogaloo
Was just admonished by Hank because "Hide & Seek is about looking for people, not finding them." Spoken with the true conviction of an almost-four-year old who suck ass at Hide & Seek.
January 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Was just admonished by Hank because "Hide & Seek is about looking for people, not finding them." Spoken with the true conviction of an almost-four-year old who suck ass at Hide & Seek.
my kid and his little friends at daycare have a bit where they all call each other "Bob" so it's just a half-dozen little boys saying "Hi, Bob!" and "Bye, Bob!" to each other #dudesrock
January 3, 2026 at 2:36 AM
my kid and his little friends at daycare have a bit where they all call each other "Bob" so it's just a half-dozen little boys saying "Hi, Bob!" and "Bye, Bob!" to each other #dudesrock
As a SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, I just think the MPRB should consider whether its being a good steward of its tax dollars by paying Park Board Rasputin millions of dollars without any sort of competitive bidding process or a consideration of alternatives. Those are my TAX DOLLARS at work!
And it seems wrong to me that there is essentially no competitive process or meaningful evaluation of Rice's services. He's going to get paid for another year within minutes of new Commissioners taking their oaths. For what MPRB pays Rice, it could directly employ multiple in-house gov't attorneys
January 2, 2026 at 10:21 PM
As a SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, I just think the MPRB should consider whether its being a good steward of its tax dollars by paying Park Board Rasputin millions of dollars without any sort of competitive bidding process or a consideration of alternatives. Those are my TAX DOLLARS at work!
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has its first meeting of the term. Tucked in among the Commissioners taking their oaths and sorting out MPRB leadership and assignments is an agenda item to vote on a contract for the MPRB's general counsel. Brian Rice is almost certain to be selected.
January 2, 2026 at 9:51 PM
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has its first meeting of the term. Tucked in among the Commissioners taking their oaths and sorting out MPRB leadership and assignments is an agenda item to vote on a contract for the MPRB's general counsel. Brian Rice is almost certain to be selected.
now that my practice officially turned a profit for 2025, I am going to start exclusively referring to myself as a Small Business Owner™ and prefacing every statement I make about local politics with "As a local small business owner......"
January 2, 2026 at 4:59 PM
now that my practice officially turned a profit for 2025, I am going to start exclusively referring to myself as a Small Business Owner™ and prefacing every statement I make about local politics with "As a local small business owner......"