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Habitability Defense on the Fritz: Rent Posting Requirements and Challenges in Minnesota
April 3, 2023
Lucy Dougherty, Volume 107 Staff Member When tenants face an eviction for non-payment of rent in Hennepin County, they may have an affirmative defense to...
Clarity at a Cost: How New Regulations May Put Well-Intentioned Gun Owners at Risk of Civil and Criminal Charges
March 31, 2023
By: Nick Grossardt, Volume 107 Staff Member At the end of January 2023, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) promulgated a final...
Keep Rolling: After Providing Automatic Expungement for Certain Marijuana Offenses Minnesota Should Enact Automatic Expungement for Other Criminal Records
March 21, 2023
By: Abby Ward, Volume 107 Staff Member The racially discriminatory impact from the War on Drugs is clear, [1] and while marijuana legalization is one...
Calibrating the Scope of Disclosure: Previewing the Supreme Court’s Opportunity to Clarify Patent Law’s Enablement Standard
March 20, 2023
By: Maxwell H. Terry, Volume 107 Staff Member While the technical subject matter of a patent can grow inordinately complex, the predominant theory underlying patent...
The Most Important Decision No One Is Talking About: What Cummings Means for the Future of Civil Rights
February 27, 2023
By: Amy Cohen, Volume 107 Staff Member In what seems like a never-ending string of catastrophic rulings implicating our nation’s future and individual rights, [1]...
Life-Or-Death Legalese: the Execution of Matthew Reeves and the Dire Consequences of Poorly Targeted Legal Drafting
February 23, 2023
By: Earl Lin, Volume 107 Staff Member It is a well-known phenomenon that lawyers often communicate in their own “peculiar language . . . characterized...
Contractual Conundrum: How Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski Has the Potential to Gut Federal Safety Net Legislation
February 21, 2023
By: Grace Worcester, Volume 107 Staff Member The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski, [1]...
Not Flying Solo: How Southwest’s Massive Flight Cancellations Led to Several Class Action Lawsuits
February 20, 2023
By: Kyra Honkanen, Volume 107 Staff Member I. BACKGROUND Making headlines across the country, Southwest Airlines, the largest domestic airline in the U.S., [1] canceled...
The Supreme Court ‘Digs’ in Re Grand Jury: Its Decision to Dismiss the Case and Leave Attorney-Client Privilege in the Three-Circuit Balance
February 17, 2023
By: E. Isabel Park, Volume 107 Staff Member After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in In re Grand Jury [1] on January 9, 2023...
A Race-Sympathetic Path Forward: Fourth Amendment Seizure Law and the Circuit Split on the Relevance of Race
February 14, 2023
By: Marina Berardino, Volume 107 Staff Member Despite it being well known that an individual’s race impacts his or her perceptions of and experiences with...