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Law School News
for March, 2012
March 28, 2012
On April 2, 2012, Clinical Professor Laura Thomas and co-counsel David Wilson and Michael Gavigan (’11), both of Wilson Law Group, will appear before the Minnesota Supreme Court on a direct appeal of the property tax assessment lawsuit Odunlade et al. v. City of Minneapolis (Supreme Court File No. A111832). The core of the lawsuit alleges violations of federal and state equal protection rights and rights to uniform taxation under Article X, Section 1, of the Minnesota Constitution, and seeks declaratory judgment and mandamus relief.
March 23, 2012
Professor Susan M. Wolf has received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, given to support innovative projects of national policy importance. The two-year funding will support Wolf's project to write a book on "Translating Research into Health Benefits: Returning Research Results & Incidental Findings."
March 21, 2012
This summer, second-year Law School student Jonathan Reiner will begin a ten-week Peggy Browning Fellowship in Washington, D.C. He is one of nearly 70, from more than 500 law student applicants nationwide, to be awarded the prestigious public interest labor law fellowship.
March 19, 2012
From May 24 to Aug. 23, 2012, the Law School will again offer the program it has offered since 2008 to help students prepare for the law school admissions process. Only the name has changed.
March 19, 2012
Critics are calling University of Minnesota Law School Professor Dale Carpenter's new release, Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas, a landmark book on a landmark case.
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