Judge David Kraus is the district-court judge whose countersignature made Referee Larmouth’s May 23, 2025 recommendation in Onion’s case an effective order under Minn. Stat. § 484.70 subd. 7(e).
Why It Matters
Kraus’ role in Onion’s file is narrow and procedurally clean on its face: he signed the countersignature line that made Referee Larmouth’s May 23, 2025 recommendation an effective order of the district court. That is the mechanism § 484.70 subd. 7(e) prescribes for turning referee recommendations into orders.
Where Kraus becomes relevant to the pattern claim is by comparison. Judge Starr’s August 19, 2025 order treated Kraus’ May 23 countersignature as the sign of an effective ruling — while separately treating Larmouth’s intermediate July 31, 2025 order as effective without addressing that its countersignature line was blank. If two Larmouth orders come through one bench in the same summer — one countersigned by Kraus, one not countersigned at all — the ordinariness of the Kraus signature underscores the anomaly of the July 31 one.
Kraus signed his. The July 31 order stayed blank.
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