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Ready for Landing: After Concluding “Pilot Program,” Minnesota’s Environmental Quality Board Deliberates Long Awaited Environmental Review Climate Consideration Requirements

By: Giuseppe Tumminello, Volume 107 Staff Member On October 19, 2022, the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB) hosted a public Environmental Review Implementation Subcommittee (ERIS)...

Legal Limbo: the State of Abortion Care for Minors in Minnesota After Doe v. State of Minnesota

By: Mary Fleming, Volume 107 Staff Member Even before Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization brought abortion to center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court...

How Compelling Does Compelling Have to Be?: a Missed Opportunity to Reframe a Compelling Governmental Interest in Affirmative Action in the Students for Fair Admissions Cases

By: Chad Nowlan, Volume 107 Staff Member This fall the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA)...

The Onus of Transparency: State of Washington v. Meta Platforms, Inc. Illustrates the Fight Over Reasonable Campaign Finance Disclosure Law and First Amendment Protected Speech Violations

By: Lindsay Maher, Volume 107 Staff Member Campaign finance disclosure laws are being questioned and limited in states across the country. In many states, legislatures...

Mixed Messaging: Previewing 303 Creative and Its Place in Current Free Speech Jurisprudence

By: Samuel E. Ferguson, Volume 107 Staff Member This term, the Supreme Court of the United States will decide 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. [1]...

Un(PrEP)ared: How Braidwood v. Becerra Could Leave Public Health Officials Scrambling

By: Tyler Blackmon, Volume 107 Staff Member On September 7, 2022, a federal district court granted summary judgment to an employer who refused to cover...

No Reassurance from Insurance: Insurance Companies Are Trying to Avoid BIPA Litigation by Using Robust Exclusion Clauses and Courts Are Unimpressed

By: Katherine Vu, Volume 107 Staff Member Insurance companies are the new plaintiffs taking center stage in recent litigation under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy...

Hard Luxury: Material Adverse Effect in the LVMH and Tiffany Merger

By: Rachel Wynn, Business Law Clinic Student Director & Emily Buchholz, Executive Director of the Corporate Institute Since the COVID-19 pandemic, material adverse effect claims...

Stealing from Your Students: the Hidden Key in the Higher Education Act to Hold Leaders of For-Profit Colleges Personally Liable for Fraud

By: Kylee Evans, Volume 106 Staff Member Student debt in the United States has hit a historic high. [1] The estimated total student loan debt...

Meaningful but Not Perfect Review: Implied Preclusion of Federal Jurisdiction and Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC

By: Jason Gutierrez, Vol. 106 Staff Member I. BACKGROUND, DOCTRINE, AND AXON’S ARGUMENT May a party arguing that the structure of the Federal Trade Commission...