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The Amicus Curiae blog is a resource for everyone interested in recent happenings in law. We will share trending legal topics and thought-provoking pieces in all different areas of law. Some articles also provide advice to students or practicing attorneys.

If you are interested in writing a piece—new or in response to a current one—contact us at alicia.brenhaug@mitchellhamline.edu or joshua.numainville@mitchellhamline.edu.

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New Year’s Resolutions: Attorney Wellness

Posted: January 10, 2020
attorney wellness
By Geri Sjoquist Geri Sjoquist, Hamline Class of 2002, practices in family law and civil litigation.  One of Minnesota Lawyer’s Attorneys of the Year in 2019, Geri has worked as a legal professional for over twenty-five years, primarily at her own firm Sjoquist Law LLC. The Concept of Interconnectedness There has been a lot of …

New Year’s Resolutions: Attorney Wellness

Eighth Circuit Supercharges Masterpiece Cakeshop and Creates Religious Freedom Blueprint with Telescope Media Group v. Lucero

Posted: December 19, 2019
telescope media group v. lucero
By: Ethan Groothuis Ethan Groothuis is a managing editor for Volume 46 of the Mitchell Hamline Law Review and a 3L at Mitchell Hamline. Ethan’s article is the first article in our two-part Telescope Media series. Part II by Professor Michael Steenson will be published in January 2020. Telescope Media Group v. Lucero, a major …

Eighth Circuit Supercharges Masterpiece Cakeshop and Creates Religious Freedom Blueprint with Telescope Media Group v. Lucero

Aaron Carlson Corp. v. Cohen: Can a Receiver Bring a Piercing-the-Corporate-Veil Claim Against Shareholders of the Corporate Entity that the Receiver Controls?

Posted: November 27, 2019
Aaron Carlson Corp. v. Cohen receivership
By Kurt R. Mattson, J.D. LL.M., M.L.I.S. Kurt Mattson, William Mitchell Class of 1988, is president of Union Legal Research. His company provides quick, thorough legal research and writing services for attorneys. Introduction The Minnesota Supreme Court recently held that the lower courts erred in concluding that a creditor’s claims should have been brought by …

Aaron Carlson Corp. v. Cohen: Can a Receiver Bring a Piercing-the-Corporate-Veil Claim Against Shareholders of the Corporate Entity that the Receiver Controls?

The Music Modernization Act’s Impact on Mechanical Licensing and Streaming Services

Posted: November 6, 2019
Music Modernization Act
By: Simone Washington Simone Washington is a Michigan native and 3L at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. She recieved her Bachelors of Music Business from Howard University in 2017 and hopes to enter the field of Entertainment Law in Los Angeles, CA after graduating from Mitchell in 2020. She currently works as a Law Clerk …

The Music Modernization Act’s Impact on Mechanical Licensing and Streaming Services

Professor Perspectives: Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue Sets Up A Religion Clause Collision

Posted: October 4, 2019
Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
By Marie Failinger Marie A. Failinger is a professor of law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. She was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and Religion for more than 25 years, and has published books and articles on law and religion, including several focused on Lutheran theology and law. Background Espinoza v. Montana …

Professor Perspectives: Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue Sets Up A Religion Clause Collision

Writing Wrongs: The Common Legal Writing Mistakes of Law Students and Lawyers

Posted: September 12, 2019
Common Legal Writing Mistakes
By Peggy Kirkpatrick Peggy Kline Kirkpatrick is an adjunct writing professor in the Lawyering program at Mitchell Hamline, where she has taught for the past ten years. Her legal experience includes private practice in environmental, administrative, and land use law, and a clerkship at the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Peggy received her B.A., summa cum …

Writing Wrongs: The Common Legal Writing Mistakes of Law Students and Lawyers

Partisan Gerrymandering Claims After Rucho v. Common Cause: A Political Question Beyond the Court’s Reach

Posted: August 19, 2019
Rucho v. Common Cause
Written by Raleigh Levine, James E. Kelley Chair in Tort Law at Mitchell Hamline. Professor Levine teaches Mitchell Hamline’s Election Law class, which focuses on the constitutional and statutory regulation of the American electoral process. After decades in which a majority of the United States Supreme Court’s Justices repeatedly concluded that some partisan gerrymandering might …

Partisan Gerrymandering Claims After Rucho v. Common Cause: A Political Question Beyond the Court’s Reach

Twenty-first Amendment Gives Way to Dormant Commerce Clause in Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas

Posted: August 5, 2019
Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Ass'n v. Thomas
By Caleb Gerbitz, Head Managing Editor for the Mitchell Hamline Law Review Introduction One hundred years after prohibition began on January 16, 1919, its undoing still strains principles of federalism and constitutional interpretation. In Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Ass’n v. Thomas,[1] the authority of states to regulate alcohol under section 2 of the Twenty-first …

Twenty-first Amendment Gives Way to Dormant Commerce Clause in Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas

Amicus Curiae Podcast – Gateway to Legal Education with Dean Mark Gordon and Professor Barbara Colombo

Posted: May 17, 2019
Learn more about Mitchell Hamline School of Law’s Gateways to Legal Education initiative with Dean Gordon and Professor Colombo. Introduction (0:00 – 1:48) How was the program initiated? (1:49 – 7:29) Why the choice to do health care as the first course? (7:30 – 11:20) Was this an original model? (11:21 – 14:11) How is …

Amicus Curiae Podcast – Gateway to Legal Education with Dean Mark Gordon and Professor Barbara Colombo

Shoulder Injuries from Vaccines? – Separating Fact From Fiction

Posted: February 17, 2019
Written by Kathleen M Loucks, Attorney at Lommen Abdo, P.A. SIRVA “Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration” is compensated through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (“VICP”) which is administered through the United States Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C.[1] Through the VICP, persons who have been injured by vaccines covered under the program can …

Shoulder Injuries from Vaccines? – Separating Fact From Fiction