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On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Department of Health and Human Services regulations requiring that three closely held corporations provide health insurance coverage for methods of contraception that…
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in a Star Tribune article about the upcoming federal libel trial in a suit brought by former Governor Jesse Ventura against the estate of the deceased author of the…
Professor Susan Wolf is collaborating on a newly funded project entitled "DNA Nanotechnology: Developing and Analyzing a New Tool for Sensing and Targeting Disease." This two-year project, funded by the University of…
On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a union representing home health care workers in Illinois could not collect fair share fees from non-member workers. A Pioneer Press article sought to gauge the…
Professor Jill Hasday was featured on WCCO's News and Views with Roshini Rajkumar discussing her book, Family Law Reimagined (Harvard University Press 2014). Hasday talked about how the dominant stories that…
Professor Kristin Hickman participated in a teleforum on the Supreme Court's recent decision in NLRB v. Noel Canning regarding the President's recess appointment power. Also participating in the teleforum…
Professor Kristin Hickman was quoted in a column authored by Peter Reilly for Forbes about the District of Columbia Circuit's recent decision in Kuretski v. Commissioner, in which the court rejected…
Professor Fred Morrison was interviewed by John Hines on WCCO News Radio on the recess appointments.…
Professor Fred Morrison was quoted in a MinnPost article entitled "Bible Comments by GOP's Candidate for State Supreme Court Alarm Legal Experts." Morrison said that Republican candidate Michelle MacDonald's words…
Professor June Carbone's book with co-author Naomi Cahn, Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family, was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal by W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociology…
Professor Richard Painter was quoted in an OpenSecrets.org article on campaign contributions by BlackRock to Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), who also invests a substantial amount of his own money with BlackRock. Painter…
Professor Richard Painter was quoted in an Indianapolis Star article on conflicts of interest when a nonprofit company hired by the State of Indiana to advise on investment of taxpayer money in business…