g.blanchfield@rwblawfirm.com
Garrett is a founding partner in the law firm of Reinhardt Wendorf & Blanchfield. Prior to forming Reinhardt Wendorf & Blanchfield, he was a partner in the St. Paul, Minnesota law firm of Reinhardt & Anderson. He has litigated class actions for more than 30 years with a focus on antitrust, securities and consumer cases.
Garrett is a graduate of Carleton College and Hamline University School of Law, where he was the Production Editor for the Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy. Mr. Blanchfield was admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1990. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Blanchfield clerked for Minnesota District Court Judge Robert G. Schiefelbein and has also taught legal writing at a local law school and lectured at CLEs on class action issues.
Awards and Recognition
Garrett has been selected as an antitrust SuperLawyer by Minnesota SuperLawyer Magazine each year since 2014.
In 2023, Garrett was part of a team of lawyers recognized as Minnesota Lawyers of the Year by Minnesota Lawyer magazine for their work in Tyler v. Hennepin County, et al., 143 S. Ct. 1369 (2023), which resulted in a unanimous decision by the United States Supreme Court finding that certain Minnesota statutes relating to sales of tax-forfeited properties resulted in an unconstitutional taking.
Representative Cases
Garrett is one of the lawyers leading Tyler v. Hennepin, in which the United States Supreme Court unanimously reversed the 8th Circuit, finding that Minnesota’s tax forfeiture statute was unconstitutional.
Garrett has held leadership positions in many cases and is currently co-lead counsel in In Sky Federal Credit Union v. Fair Isaac Corp., 1:20-cv-02114 (N.D.Il.), representing a class of purchasers of credit scores who alleged that they paid an artificially-inflated price in violation of state and federal competition laws. He currently serves on court-appointed executive committees in Deere & Co. Repair Services Antitrust Litig., 3:22-cv-50188 (N.D. Il), Cornish-Adebiyi v. Caesars Entertainment, et al. 1:23-cv-02536 (KMW)(EAP), and In re: Crop Inputs Antitrust Litig., 4:21-md-029333-SEP (N.D. Il)
In 2007, he obtained a unanimous reversal of a Minnesota Court of Appeals decision that limited the standing of indirect purchasers under Minnesota’s Antitrust Act, Lorix v. Crompton Corp., et al, 734 N.W.2d 619 (Minn. 2007). In Robertson v. Sea Pines Real Estate Co., 679 F.3d. 278 (4th Cir., 2012), Mr. Blanchfield successfully argued to the 4th Circuit in support of a District Court decision denying Defendant’s motions to dismiss a pair of cases alleging violations of the Sherman Act.