Franklin Zimring interviewed by KQED-FM, Feb. 28, 2017
“Before the middle of 2014 … it was an important problem that was below any real policy visibility as something distinctive and national and large. And then, all of a sudden: It was important to people, and then the data started. But it was still the case that any discussion of what to do about police use of lethal force was enormously handicapped by the fact that there was very little empirical data.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Feb. 28, 2017
This is the new shareholder activism. The low-hanging fruit, and tricks like selling the company or spinning off a business, are drying up. Instead, a few shareholder activists are now trying something much harder — actually digging into the operations of a company and working to turn it around.
Robert Merges quoted by The Guardian, Feb. 25, 2017
Google could win a “head-start” injunction against Uber, preventing the company from working on the disputed LiDAR technology for as long as it took Google to develop, according to Robert Merges. … For Uber to “sit on the sideline” for three to five years while its competitors race to market would be a “very significant setback,” Merges said.
Bruce Budner quoted by The Press Democrat, Feb. 24, 2017
“There is a big difference between maintaining neutrality in a case, which a judge must do, and divorcing oneself from politics,” said Bruce Budner, a UC Berkeley School of Law professor.
Katerina Linos writes for SCOTUSblog, Feb. 24, 2017
We found that the Supreme Court can shift Americans’ views – and did in fact significantly increase the popularity of the individual mandate. This effect, however, is driven by one-sided media coverage – by a choice media outlets often make to treat Supreme Court decisions with far more deference than they treat presidential and congressional choices. Given sufficient media coverage for a particular court case, this choice on the part of the media means the court does have the ability to lead public opinion.
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted by Los Angeles Times, Feb. 24, 2017
Chris Hoofnagle, a UC Berkeley law professor who specializes in privacy issues, said the Verizon-Yahoo deal is “part of a larger trend of merging to create mega data brokers to compete with Google.”
Leti Volpp quoted by The Daily Californian, Feb. 23, 2017
“The sanctuary ordinances and legislation are about state or local law enforcement agencies not using their resources for immigration enforcement purposes; they cannot prohibit the federal government from acting,” Volpp said.
Ethan Elkind quoted by The New York Times, Feb. 23, 2017
“Prices are coming down in all these technologies,” he said. “But we wouldn’t know how much it would cost. We also presumably would have to retire some existing power plants, so the ratepayer impacts are unknown.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon quoted by Bloomberg BNA, Feb. 23, 2017
Proving a material adverse event often requires battling in court over questions like whether an incident was “significant” and “durational,” said Davidoff, who has written in the past that about the Yahoo/Verizon deal. He noted that it’s not at all clear whether data breaches — even of the size disclosed by Yahoo — would rise to that level.
Jennifer Granholm interviewed by KQED-FM, Feb. 23, 2017
“Now the Democrats are in the minority, and you need a strong voice to be able to be the party of the opposition, of the resistance. The profile in terms of the elevation of the position certainly has grown and will continue to be very important moving forward.”