Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by The Daily Californian, Dec. 5, 2017
“All ideas and views can be expressed, no matter how offensive,” Chemerinsky said at the event. “The campus (has) to find ways to create inclusivity that are consistent with that. The best remedy for speech we don’t like is more speech.”
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by eNews Channel Africa, Dec. 4, 2017
“I do not think he wants to open that door,” Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley Law and constitutional law expert, told AFP.
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Fox News, Dec. 3, 2017
Further, Chemerinsky notes that “even if this is about speech” that doesn’t mean the government can’t intercede. And in this case, “the interest in preventing discrimination outweighs” other interests. For instance, the baker would lose in court if he were “against interracial marriage and won’t bake a cake for an interracial couple.”
Erwin Chemerinsky writes for ABA Journal, Nov. 30, 2017
The court has to face the question of whether baking a cake should be regarded as expressive activity and whether a company can make such a speech claim. But if so, then almost any kind of work can be seen as being a form of expression. If baking a cake is speech, then so is cooking food or, as in other cases that have arisen, taking pictures or making floral arrangements.
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Los Angeles Times, Nov. 30, 2017
Erwin Chemerinsky … said Thursday that he has agreed to invest in Semanal, in part because he has “enormous admiration and respect” for Calle. For years, Chemerinsky — then the dean of UC Irvine’s law school — wrote a weekly column for the Orange County Register’s opinion pages, which Calle oversaw.
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Gizmodo, Nov. 28, 2017
“I don’t see anything in the First Amendment that says there has to be an intent to cause harm to the victim,” Professor Erwin Chemerinsky … said at the 2017 US Department of Justice Cybercrime Symposium in regards to IPPA. “If the material is intentionally or recklessly made publicly available, I think that is sufficient, and I don’t think it should just be about intent to cause harm to the victim..”
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Yahoo! Finance, Nov. 28, 2017
“I think Carpenter could significantly increase protection for the electronic data,” Erwin Chemerinsky … told Yahoo Finance in an email message. … “The court may well overrule its earlier decisions that there is no privacy interest if third parties have the information.”
Erwin Chemerinsky writes for The Sacramento Bee, Nov. 28, 2017
For decades, our society has made the correct choice that it will interfere with freedom to discriminate in order to have a more just and equal society. The Supreme Court must not abandon this commitment and instead should use Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission to reaffirm it.
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Los Angeles Times, Nov. 26, 2017
“His was a jurisprudence that was really based on the recognition of the dignity of every person,” said UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “For him the law was much less about abstractions and much more about what it would mean in people’s lives.”
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 26, 2017
As Chemerinsky put it, the court read the Constitution’s protections of free speech and a free press as a guarantee that “there is a full and open discussion about those who run for office, even though false things may be said at times. Let the speech go on.”