Tax time may be less stressful for some low-income Minnesotans who have difficulty paying their tax bills thanks to recent state policy changes resulting the efforts of two students working through Minnesota Law’s Ronald M. Mankoff Tax Clinic.
Professor Kristin Hickman was interviewed by Tax Notes in regarding the likelihood that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn its Chevron deference standard in American Hospital Ass'n v. Becerra, No. 20-1114. The case concerns the validity of a Department of Health and Human Services regulation interpreting the Medicare statute, upheld by the lower court as reasonable and therefore worthy of deference under the Chevron standard.
Professor Jill Hasday was interviewed by the BBC Newshour on World Service Radio on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court today.
Professor Jill Hasday appeared on WCCO’s Good Question feature, answering the question: How could Minnesota be Impacted if Roe v. Wade is overturned?
Professor Jill Hasday appeared on MPR News with Angela Davis to discuss "The Future of Abortion Access in Minnesota"
Professor Carol Chomsky presented a paper on "Military Injustice and the Public Eye: The U.S.-Dakota War Trials of 1862" at the University of Tennessee Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression (conference program at https://www.utc.edu/sites/default/files/2021-10/2021-west-chair-symposi…).
Professor Carol Chomsky presented on "Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom" to the Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program (on a panel with Jonathan Friedman, Director, Free Expression and Education, PEN America and Mike Poterala, vice president for legal affairs and General counsel at University of Maryland).
In a New York Times article entitled "In Minneapolis Schools, White Families Are Asked to Help Do the Integrating," Professor Myron Orfield spoke on the potential benefits of a plan designed to take a broader approach at integration through lessening the divide among school districts, including between cities and the suburbs.
“To really have a viable long-term plan, you need a metropolitan approach,” Orfield explained.
In a column headed "Law School Excellence," Minnesota Lawyer reported on the efforts of the Law School's Clemency Clinic, run by Professor JaneAnne Murray, to secure clemency for its client Kelli Caron from the Biden administration.
MPR reported on the success of the Law School's Clemency Clinic, run by Professor JaneAnne Murray, in securing the likely early release of Samantha Heiges, a woman in her 13th year of a 25-year sentence imposed for killing her newborn at age 19. Heiges, who was in an isolating and abusive relationship at the time is quoted as saying to the Minnesota Board of Pardons “[e]ven though this happened over 16 years ago, there isn’t a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse or guilt for what happened ...