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Professor Myron Orfield discussed the origin and importance of the disparate impact cause of action under the Fair Housing Act in a ProPublica article entitled "Supreme Court's Latest Race Case: Housing…
Professor Jane Kirtley told Reuters that Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo's threat to sue Fox News for "prejudicing the honor" of her city in its reporting of the Charlie Hebdo massacre will not succeed. "I…
Professor Richard Painter and three other former officials in Republican administrations have formed Take Back Our Republic, a new group aimed at convincing conservatives to back campaign finance reform. The group…
Professor Christopher Soper was quoted in a Star Tribune article discussing the driving factors behind a possible bankruptcy filing by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Looming trial dates for…
On the day the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Professor Christopher Soper discussed the bankruptcy filing on KSTP. Soper explained that bankruptcy was a good…
Professor Christopher Soper was quoted in a Minnesota Public Radio story about a possible bankruptcy filing by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. The Archdiocese faces significant potential costs related…
Professor Heidi Kitrosser will speak about her new book, Reclaiming Accountability, at Magers & Quinn bookstore in Minneapolis on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 7:00 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the…
A Jan. 13 story in Law360 entitled "Federal Circuit Ruling Shows Appetite for Revisiting Willfulness," discussing the Federal Circuit's recent decision in the patent infringement case Bard Peripheral Vascular…
Professor Paul Vaaler's research on the venture investment impact of migrant remittances to developing countries has been featured in the World Bank's recently published Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) for the…
Professor Myron Orfield was a symposium participant on SCOTUSblog in relation to the Texas v. Inclusive Communities case, which will be argued before the United States Supreme Court on Jan. 21. He argued…
In the wake of the terrorist attacks on Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Professor Jane Kirtley told WCCO news that "Freedom of the press, like any other freedom, is not free. Sometimes people…
Professor Susan Wolf was interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio for a program on "Genetic Privacy: Who Should Know What Your Tests Reveal?" Profs. Wolf and Robert Green (Harvard Medical School) discussed the tension…