Bryan Huntington has spent over a decade litigating land development disputes touching numerous industries, including housing, mining, energy, data centers, billboards, malls, and religious institutions. He represents developers and landowners against the government in disputes relating to permits, licenses, development agreements and fees, eminent domain, inverse condemnation, relocation benefits, environmental law, and administrative law.
Bryan has litigated a wide variety of private disputes, including cases relating to boundaries of land, trespass and encroachment, lien foreclosure, title issues, easements, construction defects, mechanic's liens, purchase agreements, and contract disputes relating to real property.
He represents clients all the way through the judicial process, including appeals.
Bryan is a Minnesota State Bar Association Certified Real Property Specialist. He is also a qualified neutral for mediation in Minnesota. He is licensed to practice in Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Bryan lives in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his wife Marya and three children. In his free time he is an active parishioner at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Edina, Minnesota.
- Building owners arbitrating damages claims against general contractor and subcontractors. Secured denial of summary judgment motions brought by a general contractor and subcontractor in arbitration representing owners of a large mixed use project. The arbitration panel agreed that all evidence of the building owner’s damages – ranging in the millions of dollars – should be admitted at the arbitral hearing.
- Contractor terminated by municipality on public project. Won the reinstatement of a contractor terminated by the city on a public project. Although the city originally intended to rebid the remaining work and potentially hold the contractor and surety responsible for damage, Bryan successfully influenced the city to let the contractor return to the project to finish the job.
- Overcame summary judgment in real estate fraud dispute. Secured the denial of a summary judgment on fraudulent misrepresentation/breach of contract/warranty claims. Represented a plaintiff who alleged that a defendant seller fraudulently misrepresented soil conditions of land purchased for a retail development.
- Lockout petition served on hotel. Secured the dismissal of a lockout petition lawsuit on behalf of an extended stay hotel company. The court agreed that the plaintiffs were not residential tenants entitled to protection under the landlord/tenant statues and, therefore, granted the hotel’s motion to dismiss.
- Landowner zoning dispute with municipality. Persuaded a municipality that had directed a business landowner to cease a particular commercial use of property that use was a protected nonconforming use under state law. Because the municipality was informed of the landowner’s vested right to continue the commercial use, no further complaint has been made by the city.
- Hamline University School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 2013)
- St. John’s University (B.A., magna cum laude, 2010)
- Political Science
- Minnesota, 2013
- North Dakota, 2021
- South Dakota, 2025
- Wisconsin, 2020
- Iowa, 2020
- Florida, 2024
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit
- United States Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, 2014
- U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska, 2015
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, 2025
- Minnesota State Bar Association, Real Property Law Section Member
- Minnesota State Bar Association, Civil Litigation Section Member
- Hennepin County Bar Association, Eminent Domain Section Member
- Minnesota State Bar Association, Construction Law Section Member
- Federal Bar Association
- Minnesota Eminent Domain Institute (MEDI)
- Minnesota State Bar Association Board Certified Real Property Specialist
- Rising Star®, Super Lawyers magazine, 2021- present
- The Best Lawyers in America-Ones to Watch© – Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, 2023 - present
- Minnesota Monthly®, Top Lawyers in Minnesota, 2024 - present
- Abria, board member (2022-present)
- Our Lady of Grace Parish Council (2022-2025)
- Bloomington Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, member and chair of the golf committee (2016-2019)
- Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church Men's Club Board of Directors, community involvement leader (2018-2019), social chair (2019-2020), secretary (2020-2021)
- Judicial Law Clerk, Hon. Erik J. Askegaard, Ninth Judicial District
- Law Clerk, Dady & Gardner, P.A.
- Law Clerk, Institute for Justice
