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Was Justice Ginsburg Roe-Ght?: Reimagining U.S. Abortion Discourse in the Wake of Argentina’s Marea Verde
Although she died a stalwart progressive icon, during her 1993 United States Supreme Court confirmation hearings, many liberals were initially skeptical of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s commitment to upholding Roe. The cause for concern originated in comments that then-Circuit Judge Ginsburg…
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Mass Parental Incarceration and Sentencing Reform in Minnesota
The devastating consequences of parental incarceration are well established and widely recognized on international, national, and local levels. The increasing awareness of how mass parental incarceration harms children, their families, and society as a whole has led to recommendations for…
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The Seven (At Least) Lessons of The Myon Burrell Case
For much of the world, 2020 was a troubling year, but few places saw as much uproar as Minnesota. The police killing of George Floyd set off protests in Minnesota and around the world, even as a pandemic and economic…
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Playing God: Faulty Decision-Making in Medical Futility Disputes
Baby Tinslee Lewis was born in late February 2019 with a rare heart defect and was placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, a machine that fulfilled the functions of her heart and lungs. By the time she was ten months old,…
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Achieving Diversity on Corporate Boards: Engagement and Education; Not Legislation
In September 2018, California became the first state to enact a law requiring publicly traded companies with principal executive offices in their state to have at least one woman on the board of directors by the end of 2019. The…
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Action and Reaction: The Trump Executive Orders and Their Reception by the Federal Courts
In the legal sphere, some of the most dominant elements of President Donald Trump’s first year in office were his executive orders. This article focuses on the following (the “Trump Executive Orders”): the three travel ban orders, the sanctuary jurisdictions…
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Invisible Among Us: The Epidemic of Homeless Teen Parents
Kia” was fifteen years old when she met her boyfriend. At sixteen years old, she found out she was pregnant, and her parents kicked her out as a result. Now, she is pregnant, homeless, and at just sixteen years old,…
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Wounded Souls: The Need for Child Protection Professionals and Faith Leaders to Recognize and Respond to the Spiritual Impact of Child Abuse
“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.” —Martin Luther King A seven-year-old girl has detailed sexual abuse during a forensic interview conducted at a Children’s Advocacy Center. “I’ve asked you a lot of questions,” the forensic interviewer…
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Transportation Electrification: An Examination of the Utility’s Role
Not only are utilities at the center of the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using renewable energy resources to generate electricity, they also play an instrumental role in transportation electrification. Regulators across the country view utility investments in…
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Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant: The Role of the Media in Shaping Immigration Policy
On February 21, 2017, one month and one day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth President of the United States, the Washington Post debuted a new slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” This phrase draws on our country’s…
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How To Be Biased in the Classroom: Kwayeskastasowin – Setting Things Right?
As an Indigenous person, I know introductions are important. Introductions place you. They provide others with an understanding of where you come from and what values or perspectives you might have because of this placement. Introductions provide your legitimacy, your…
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Educational Adequacy Challenges: The Impact on Minnesota Charter Schools
Years after the civil rights movement, educational challenges in public schools have continued to plague classrooms and fill courtrooms. During the 1970s, litigation examined the equitability of financing in public education systems. Equity challenges later progressed into challenging academics, resources,…
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Race-Based Hostile Work Environment Claims in Federal and Minnesota Courts: A Historical Perspective on the Development of the “Severe or Pervasive” Standard
The two primary statutes that protect Minnesotans against race-based harassment in the workplace are the Minnesota Human Rights Act (“MHRA”), enacted in 1955, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Since their enactment, courts have seemingly narrowed…
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The Capitalization of “Tribal Nations” and the Decolonization of Citation, Nomenclature, and Terminology in the United States
As the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, we are in the process of sharing our knowledge, worldviews, legal traditions, culture, and language from our own perspectives. This is an ongoing process, and this Article should be considered as a…
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The Theoretical and Practical Shortcomings of Necessitating Appreciation for Punishment—Madison v. Alabama, 139 S.Ct. 718 (2019)
In Madison v. Alabama, the United States Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment does not prohibit the execution of individuals who have no recollection of the crimes that they committed. In reaching their conclusion, the Court set forth that…
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Partisan Gerrymandering: Blurring The Line Between Law And Politics
“[T]here is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.” In the United States, redistricting is defined as the redrawing of congressional and state legislative district boundaries every ten years, following a…
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Statement Regarding Yesterday’s Dobbs Decision
Yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade, is one that causes grave concern. National access to safe and legal abortions, a protected right for nearly 50 years, is gone. States have the green…
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Animal Rights: Time to Start Unpacking What Rights and for Whom
“We are on the cusp of changing the legal relationship between nonhuman animals and humans. The time is now to push even harder, as hard as we can. And keep pushing until we win.” Public concern for animals has dramatically…
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Progressive Prosecution: It’s Here, But Now What?
Mass incarceration, lengthy probationary periods, unreachable bail amounts, and felony criminal records feed the machine of our criminal justice system. The system is not broken; the assembly line of arrest, charge, conviction, and imprisonment is doing exactly what it was…
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The Purpose Paradox: A Linguistic Dilemma Within Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence
There may not be a more mysterious term in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence than “purpose.” In this context, purpose is generically defined as the reason or reasons an officer took certain action. It is understandable that courts would elect to focus…
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Criminal Law: The Dangers of Incomplete Statutory Interpretation and the Unfortunate Equal Protection Implications that Follow–Heilman v. Courtney, 926 N.W.2d 387 (Minn. 2019)
In Heilman v. Courtney, the Minnesota Supreme Court decided that a person convicted of a felony-level Driving While Intoxicated offense (felony DWI) is “released from prison” under Minnesota statute when he departs from prison to participate in Phase II of…
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Civil Procedure: The Court Stepping into Education—Cruz-Guzman v. State, 916 N.W.2d 1 (Minn. 2018).
In Cruz-Guzman v. State, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that separation of powers principles did not prevent the judiciary from ruling on whether the Minnesota Legislature violated its constitutionally mandated duty to ensure an equal education. The court reversed the…
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The Immigration Judiciary’s Need for Independence: Breaking Free from the Shackles of the Attorney General
President Donald Trump’s strict immigration policies display the need to evaluate the country’s judiciary proceedings on immigration. How exactly do immigration courts function compared to civil or criminal court procedures? In short, the immigration courts are controlled by the executive…
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The Outlawed Family: How Relevant is the Law in Family Litigation?
The involvement of the law in the family is generally considered inevitable and desirable. The family is often depicted as the locus of important and delicate problems, which demand legal intervention through designated tools commonly referred to as “family law.”…
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Fast Track to the Civil Death Penalty: Involuntary Terminations of Parental Rights and an Analysis of the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Decision in R.D.L.
Dr. H: What were the ages of your children? Ms. K: They were one and two when it began. When I lost my parental rights, they were two, three, and four years old. And I had given birth to another…