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Paycheck Protection Discrimination: Denial of Loans to Sex-Related Businesses Is a Dangerous Expansion of Government Speech
April 30, 2021
By: Kelly Zech, Volume 105 Staff Member In March 2020, to combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, government orders resulted in a sudden and...
Return to Sender: Fowler v. Commissioner’s Applicability to Late Filing and Payment Penalties
April 28, 2021
By: Matthew Thom, Volume 105 Staff Member INTRODUCTION Most Americans file their taxes at the last minute. [1] This year, that late filing is especially...
SPAC-Tacular Times: 2020 Saw An Explosion of SPACs in the Market, but Will This Multi-Billion Dollar Trend Continue?
April 26, 2021
By: Ali Muffenbier, Volume 105 Staff Member As we have all heard more than we would have liked, 2020 was the year of “unprecedented times,”...
Dramatic Facts and Dramatic Implications: Should the Community Caretaker Exception Extend to the Home?
April 22, 2021
By: R. Willets Ely, Volume 105 Staff Member The Fourth Amendment guarantees “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers...
Police Accountability: Is Repealing Qualified Immunity the Right Answer and Is It Enough?
April 20, 2021
By: Mary Haasl, Volume 105 Staff Member As the trial of Derek Chauvin comes to an end, [1] Minneapolis and the nation brace for what...
No Shelter in This Place: How the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Frustration of Domestic Violence Legal Proceedings Can Generate Victim-Centered Reform
April 19, 2021
By: Samantha Marquardt, Volume 105 Staff Member COVID-19 has given rise to what has been called a second “invisible” pandemic of domestic violence. [1] Stay-at-home...
It’s Colder Day by Day: Adopting a Winter Eviction Moratorium in Minnesota
April 16, 2021
By Daniel Suitor, Volume 105 Staff Member, Volume 106 Lead Symposium Editor INTRODUCTION Missing your rent payment shouldn’t be a death sentence, but it could...
People Over Profits: How Minnesota Took on Big Pharma to Tackle the Insulin Affordability Crisis
April 15, 2021
By: Hannah Oliason, Volume 105 Staff Member Every cell, tissue, and organ in your body depends on water to survive. [1] But imagine a scenario...
Robinhood’s Goal Is Not to ‘Democratize Finance for All’: Don’t Expect Gamestop Buyers’ Lawsuits to Change That
April 13, 2021
By: Daniel Raddenbach, Volume 105 Staff Member INTRODUCTION Robinhood, an investment app designed to make trading easy for small investors, [1] caught national attention in...