Volume 50, Issue 4

The COVID-19 public health emergency was the first to test Minnesota’s emergency management laws. Four years of litigation and more than two dozen lawsuits proved that the statutes were flexible enough to allow the Governor, Tim Walz, to manage a novel emergency effectively. While 16,397 Minnesotans have died from COVID-19, as of December 5, 2024,…

The Chippewa National Forest is unique in the National Forest System as it is the first national forest created by statute and the only national forest created with explicit provisions for the benefit of a Tribal Nation. Among those benefits are: (1) protection of lands found within the exterior boundaries of the Leech Lake Indian…

The United States is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. Rapidly increasing home prices and rents that have outpaced the growth of family incomes have created challenges for homeowners and renters alike. The existing stock of affor­dable housing is rapidly declining, as each year the nation loses two affordable apartments for every new…

This Note addresses the recent amendment to Minnesota’s spousal maintenance statute—the addition of Minnesota Statutes section 518.552 subdivision 6 (the “cohabitation amendment”)—which permits modification of spousal maintenance payments based on the spousal maintenance recipient’s cohabitation with a new partner. The Minnesota Supreme Court discussed cohabitation as a potential ground for modification in 1979, but the…

This Note contains explicit depictions and discussions of suicide and suicide methods. Such discussions may be triggering and distressing for some readers. Reader discretion is advised. The First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech does not extend only to categories of speech that survive an ad hoc balancing of relative social costs and benefits. The First…