Volume 45, Issue 2
June 2024
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Naloxone and Methadone Access in Tribal Communities
We already have all that we need: exercising the right to self-determination to safeguard tribal public health in the age of opioids. Make no mistake about it: The fentanyl crisis is a flood of poison entering Indian Country and communities, and it is not a crisis that our tribes can face alon – Remarks of…
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Carbon Free TBD
In 2023 Minnesota passed a much-celebrated law that promised to get Minnesota’s electrical system to “100 percent” carbon-free energy by 2040. That law (which contained concessions and compromises that arguably already make achieving 100 percent unlikely), left the matter of what carbon free electricity actually means to be decided. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (Commission),…
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Cost Prohibitive Bonds as Denial of Justice: Grassroots and Community Organizations’ Due Process Rights
This paper argues that, while courts have wide discretion in issuing bonds on the enjoining party when issuing an injunction, a party’s ability to pay implicates a critical due process right that courts must consider when exercising that discretion. Courts of all levels have affirmed the due process right to be free of costs that…