Judge Thomas A. Gilligan is the district-court judge whose countersignature made Referee Clysdale’s December 12, 2024 HRO in Onion’s case an effective order under Minn. Stat. § 484.70 subd. 7(e).
Why It Matters
Two lines on the pattern claim run through Gilligan. First: he is the district-court judge who countersigned Referee Clysdale’s recommendation on Onion’s HRO. His signature is what the Court of Appeals’ alleged 4:38 PM Version B of that order carries — if the two-version scenario is confirmed on the record. Second: he is the judge who approved Referee Larmouth’s recommendation in Edrington v. Sheridan, A23-1782 — the paternity case the Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed with directions to dismiss with prejudice on February 3, 2025.
On the four corners of the docket, Gilligan’s role is procedurally clean — a district judge signing referee recommendations is exactly what § 484.70 subd. 7(e) contemplates. What he is on the map is a data point at both ends of the recent referee record: the countersignature that made the December 12 HRO effective, and the countersignature on a case the Court of Appeals said should never have been permitted to survive a motion to dismiss.
One signature makes a referee’s order effective. The record shows two of them.
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