Charles Weisselberg quoted by Daily Journal (registration required), April 23, 2018
“If discovery goes forward, it’s inconceivable to me that Cohen would testify while a federal criminal investigation is ongoing,” Weisselberg said. “I would be very surprised if he didn’t take the nickel.”
Olga Mack writes for Above the Law, April 23, 2018
In sum, if you haven’t been _________ (fill in the blank with a legal specialty or title) you don’t qualify to ever practice it. Again, in my head I perfected an answer that I rarely articulated: “Litigators/Fortune 500 lawyers/startup lawyers/general counsel/etc. are not born, they are made.”
Claudia Polsky writes for The Sacramento Bee, April 23, 2018
Under California’s Proposition 65 right-to-know law, the levels of acrylamide present in a cup of coffee trigger an industry obligation to warn consumers of the chemical’s presence. No other regulatory consequences flow from a Proposition 65 warning.
Erwin Chemerinsky writes for The Sacramento Bee, April 23, 2018
Trump cannot directly fire Mueller. But he can order Sessions to fire Rosenstein and replace Sessions if he refuses to do so. In this way, Trump can put someone in Rosenstein’s position to fire Mueller.
Nancy Lemon quoted by The Sacramento Bee, April 20, 2018
“If there is really no other evidence besides the victim’s statement at the time of the arrest or right afterward, then it’s much harder to go forward. However, if they do have a lot of other evidence like photos – if the police took a lot of photos – that kind of thing can enable them to go forward without the victim’s testimony.”
Leti Volpp quoted by Pacific Standard, April 18, 2018
“Limiting the access of immigrants to due process through defunding the Legal Orientation Program, through creating judicial quotas, or through mass deportations, will not reduce backlogs. As we have seen in the past, less process at the immigration judge level results in more appeals to federal court,” says … Leti Volpp. … “The best way to reduce the immigration court backlog would be to reduce how many immigrants are issued with notices to appear in the first place.”
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted by Phys.org, April 18, 2018
“One has to make an argument that consumers were deceived about friend information sharing, and that’s a difficult point to prove,” said Chris Hoofnagle.
Ethan Elkind quoted by The Mercury News, April 18, 2018
“For them to just strangle it in the crib like that,” he said, “indicates that this relatively big approach to rein in local government isn’t going to fly anytime soon in California.”
Ethan Elkind quoted by San Francisco Magazine, April 17, 2018
Elkind poses the challenge to the Sierra Club as though it’s a parable: “What do you do when building something produces an environmental good?”
Erwin Chemerinsky writes for The Sacramento Bee, April 15, 2018
Trump had the constitutional power to pardon Libby. A president may pardon anyone accused or convicted of a federal crime. But there is a perverse irony in Trump blasting James Comey as a “leaker” and then on same day pardoning someone who engaged in exactly that behavior and then lied about it.