Daniel Farber Comments on Elena Kagan’s Nomination to Supreme Court

-TMC Net, May 10, 2010 by Ed Silverstein
http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/84663-kagan-earns-praise-as-supreme-court-nominee-little.htm

“One of the reasons that Kagan was probably an appealing choice for the President is that she has very little paper trail,” said Dan Farber, a professor at the University of California-Berkeley Law School.  “So far as I know, she’s never taken a public position about an IP issue.”

-The New York Times, May 10, 2010 by Gabriel Nelson
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“The moral is simple. To protect the environment, we don’t need environmental crusaders on the Court. We just need judges who understand that the paramount role in environmental law is played by Congress (with an assist from administrative agencies), not by the courts.”

-The Boston Globe, May 11, 2010 by Susan Milligan and Alan Wirzbicki
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/05/11/for_the_court_a_brokers_skills/

“I think that she’s not going to have any trouble working with people like [Samuel] Alito and [John] Roberts, and maybe even [Clarence] Thomas,” Farber said, ticking off three of the high court’s most conservative members.