Volume 45 Sua Sponte

“[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 United States Census. Redistricting is intended to ensure that all voters in a district are…

The Minnesota Supreme Court’s recent decision in Fenrich v. The Blake School is a short course on Minnesota tort law. Arising out of an accident involving a student-driven car on the way to a post-season athletic event, the case required the court to consider whether the school owed a duty to the two passengers in…

The website for Masterpiece Cakeshop says, “Jack Phillips creates a masterpiece. Custom designs are his specialty: If you can think it up, Jack can make it into a cake!” Well, not quite. He can bake a cake. He can bake a wedding cake. He can design a wedding cake. But he won’t make a cake…

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 law is the first of its kind on either the state or federal level mandating…