Volume 51, Issue 2

Minnesota courts have been entertaining defamation claims since before statehood. Over the years and through numerous decisions, those courts have developed a detailed framework for defamation law that covers the common law elements of defamation, permissible damages, and defenses, including…

Three years after the meteoric rise of the #MeToo movement, with women around the world speaking out about their experiences of sexual assault and harassment, Kaija Freborg alleged in a public Facebook post that she had been “gaslighted/coerced into having…

In 1993, Minnesota became the first state to protect transgender individuals from discrimination as a matter of state law. However, it did so in a somewhat confusing way. The legislature included the term “sexual orientation” within the Minnesota Human Rights…

The dormant Commerce Clause has undergone many doctrinal shifts in its two centuries of existence. Courts and commentators have strained to discern exactly when a state excessively restricts interstate commerce. Some Supreme Court Justices have even called the Court’s dormant…