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Anticipating An Evil Which May Never Exist: Minnesota's Anachronistic Identifying Mark Statute, Michael Freiberg
Anticipating An Evil Which May Never Exist: Minnesota's Anachronistic Identifying Mark Statute, Michael Freiberg
Faculty Scholarship
In the aftermath of the 2008 senatorial election race in Minnesota, several election laws were scrutinized by state officials and the public. Specifically, Minnesota statute 204C.22 was attacked; this statute voids ballots containing "identifying" or "distinguishing" marks made in such a way as to make it evident that "the voter intended to identify the ballot". Secretary of State Ritchie proposed narrowing the scope of the identifying mark statutes, and though legislation was introduced in the state legislature, it was not adopted. The existence of these legislative initiatives makes it appropriate to examine the history of statutes prohibiting identifying marks, the …
Comparable Worth In Arbitration, Christine D. Ver Ploeg
Comparable Worth In Arbitration, Christine D. Ver Ploeg
Faculty Scholarship
In 1992 Minnesota became a pioneer in the arena of equal pay for equal work by enacting the Minnesota Local Government Pay Equity Act/Comparable Worth Law (“CWL”), which allocated nearly $22 million to remedy wage disparities between female dominated and male dominated classes at the state level. Each local government had to determine a new pay level for public employees taking into account whether it was a male or female dominated field. Many of these determinations were challenged by unions basing their challenges on two primary themes: (1) the methodologies used were flawed; (2) the determinations were invalid because the …