Inequality Inquiry

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Prescribing “Justice”? How the Court’s Stay in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine Demonstrates the Dangerous Growth of Policy-Driven Adjudication in Federal Courts

By Evelyn Doran* In August 2022, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) filed its articles of incorporation in Amarillo, Texas. [1] Three months later, it...

CALLING ALL ASYLUM SEEKERS: PLEASE, TELL US YOUR TRAUMA, OVER AND OVER AGAIN

A Look into the United States Asylum Process for Recent Afghan Evacuees By Coryn Johnson* I met the girl with the quiet not-quite-smile in a...

A New Future for Social Media Platforms, Courtesy of State Legislators.

By: Anitra Varhadkar On March 23, 2023, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed the Social Media Regulation Act (H.B. 311 and S.B. 152) (“the Bill”), arguably...

“Reasonable Efforts” Inequities in Minnesota Child Welfare Removals

By Luke Srodulski When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed House File 4065 into law on June 2, 2022, much of the media coverage surrounded provisions...

Examining the Constitutionality of Targeted Residential Protest Bans

By Alexandra Schrader-Dobris Introduction: Minnesota cities are steadily banning targeted residential protests in response to several Black Lives Matter demonstrations following George Floyd’s death in...

Expungement: The Missing Federal Piece

By Diana Kawka* Under federal law, the ability for an individual to have an arrest, charge, or conviction expunged from their criminal record is limited...

Minnesota Crisis Pregnancy Centers and The Positive Pregnancies Bill

By Lizzy Miller* Introduction In 2022, the federal constitutional right to abortion previously found in Roe v. Wade was overturned by Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...

Breonna Taylor is Not Forgotten: Department of Justice Finds Civil Rights Violations by the Louisville Metro Police Department and the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government

By Alejandrea Brown* Police violence and misconduct against Black people in America is not a new phenomenon. Studies have shown that Black people are 3.23...