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Screened Out Of Housing: The Impact Of Misleading Tenant Screening Reports And The Potential For Criminal Expungement As A Model For Effectively Sealing Evictions, Katelyn Polk Apr 2020

Screened Out Of Housing: The Impact Of Misleading Tenant Screening Reports And The Potential For Criminal Expungement As A Model For Effectively Sealing Evictions, Katelyn Polk

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

Having an eviction record “blacklists” tenants from finding future housing. Even renters with mere eviction filings—not eviction orders—on their records face the harsh collateral consequences of eviction. This Note argues that eviction records should be sealed at filing and only released into the public record if a landlord prevails in court. Juvenile record expungement mechanisms in Illinois serve as a model for one way to protect people with eviction records. Recent updates to the Illinois juvenile expungement process provided for the automatic expungement of certain records and strengthened the confidentiality protections of juvenile records. Illinois protects juvenile records because it …


A Home Is A Good Thing: An Argument For Changing The Eviction Process, Samuel Spaid Jan 2020

A Home Is A Good Thing: An Argument For Changing The Eviction Process, Samuel Spaid

Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice

No abstract provided.


Disrupting The Eviction Crisis With Conflict Resolution Strategies, Deborah Thompson Eisenberg, Noam Ebner Jan 2020

Disrupting The Eviction Crisis With Conflict Resolution Strategies, Deborah Thompson Eisenberg, Noam Ebner

Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice

No abstract provided.


Eviction Mediation: An Intentional Conversation Followed By Five More, Noam Ebner, Sharon Press Jan 2020

Eviction Mediation: An Intentional Conversation Followed By Five More, Noam Ebner, Sharon Press

Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice

No abstract provided.


Families Belong Together: The Path To Family Sanctity In Public Housing, Mckayla Stokes Jan 2020

Families Belong Together: The Path To Family Sanctity In Public Housing, Mckayla Stokes

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

In its 2015 landmark civil rights decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court finally held that the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the United States Constitution guarantee same-sex couples’ marital equality. The Court’s unprecedented declaration that the right to marry is a fundamental right under the Due Process Clause strengthened married couples’ right to privacy because it subjects government actions infringing on marital unions to heightened scrutiny. The Supreme Court has the option to minimize the impact of Obergefell by interpreting the right to marriage very narrowly—as only encompassing the right to enter into a state-recognized union …


Minnesota Evictions: Where Do We Go From Here, Brooke Bednarczyk Jan 2020

Minnesota Evictions: Where Do We Go From Here, Brooke Bednarczyk

Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice

No abstract provided.


The High Cost Of Eviction: Struggling To Contain A Growing Social Problem, Judith Fox Jan 2020

The High Cost Of Eviction: Struggling To Contain A Growing Social Problem, Judith Fox

Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice

No abstract provided.


“Everybody Loves The Landlord”: Evictions & The Coming Prevention Revolution, Brian G. Gilmore Jan 2020

“Everybody Loves The Landlord”: Evictions & The Coming Prevention Revolution, Brian G. Gilmore

Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice

No abstract provided.


A Framework For Effective And Strategic Eviction Prevention, Maya Brennan Jan 2020

A Framework For Effective And Strategic Eviction Prevention, Maya Brennan

Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice

No abstract provided.


Not With Strong Hands, Nor With A Multitude Of People: The Statutory History Of The Eviction Procedure In Minnesota, Paul Birnberg, Samuel Spaid Jan 2020

Not With Strong Hands, Nor With A Multitude Of People: The Statutory History Of The Eviction Procedure In Minnesota, Paul Birnberg, Samuel Spaid

Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice

No abstract provided.


An Intentional Conversation About Adr Interventions: Eviction, Poverty And Other Collateral Consequences, Sharon Press Jan 2020

An Intentional Conversation About Adr Interventions: Eviction, Poverty And Other Collateral Consequences, Sharon Press

Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice

No abstract provided.