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Postmortem Privacy: What Happens to Online Accounts After Death?
February 24, 2015
Steven Groschen, MJLST Staff Member Facebook recently announced a new policy that grants users the option of appointing an executor of their account. This policy...
Revisiting the Idea of a Patent Small Claims Court
February 24, 2015
Comi Sharif, Managing Editor In 2009, Robert P. Greenspoon explored the idea of adjusting the patent court system to improve efficiency for the adjudication of...
Could Changes for NEPA Be on the Horizon
February 11, 2015
Allison Kvien, MJLST Staff Member The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was one of the first broad, national environmental protection statutes ever written. NEPA's aim...
Privacy in the Workplace and Wearable Technology
February 11, 2015
Jessica Ford, MJLST Staff Member Lisa M. Durham Taylor's article, The Times They Are a-Changin': Shifting Norms and Employee Privacy in the Technological Era, in...
Recent Developments Affecting the “Fracking” Industry
February 11, 2015
Neal Rasmussen, MJLST Staff Member In " Notes from Underground: Hydraulic Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale" from Volume 12, Issue 2 of the Minnesota Journal...
Mechanics or Manipulation: Regulation of High Frequency Trading Since the “Flash Crash” and a Proposal for a Preventative Approach
February 2, 2015
Dan Keith, MJLST Staff Member In May of 2010, the DOW Jones plummeted to Depression levels and recovered within a half an hour. The disturbing...
Admission of Scientific Evidence in Criminal Case Under the Daubert Standard
February 2, 2015
Sen "Alex" Wang, MJLST Staff Member In Crawford v. Washington, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, overruled its earlier decision in Ohio v. Roberts...