Paul Schwartz co-writes for Lexology, May 17, 2016
Because the failure of a target company to meet its privacy and data security obligations can present a significant risk to the acquiring company, compliance with applicable laws should be an important consideration in merger and acquisition transactions.
Pamela Samuelson writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 17, 2016
If the overwhelming majority of the university’s uses were fair, it doesn’t make sense to impose substantial and costly compliance measures on it. Colleges, students, faculty members, and academic-book-chapter authors will win if the publishers lose once again.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, May 17, 2016
Yes, Lending Club deserves more scrutiny. But companies like it are not banks — they do not have the same central importance, and are not too big to fail. So far, peer-to-peer lending seems to do more good for consumers than bad.
Jamie O’Connell quoted by Al-Monitor, May 17, 2016
“Even [US President Barack] Obama saying something wouldn’t transform a government’s behavior,” said Jamie O’Connell, a senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley law school. “But the difference between leading rights groups like Amnesty [International] or Human Rights Watch making such comments and a UN official doing so is considerable,” he told Al-Monitor in an interview.
Megan McCracken interviewed by KPBS, May 16, 2016
“We see states moving away from capital punishment, as more and more people see that there are so many problems with capital punishment and that it is really a broken system — a costly broken system.”
Holly Doremus and Michael Kiparsky write for The Fresno Bee, May 16, 2016
Groundwater provides about one-third to half of the state’s water supply and an essential lifeline when rivers run low during drought. Groundwater mismanagement is distressingly common; with lack of regulation and heavy pumping, overuse has destroyed infrastructure and put farms, communities and ecosystems at risk.
Ethan Elkind co-writes for Capitol Weekly, May 16, 2016
Out of the 9.5 million acres in the stakeholder study area, the groups identified 470,000 acres of ideal, non-controversial land for solar PV development, or roughly 5 percent of the Valley study area. At a generic calculation of 1 megawatt of solar PV production from 5 acres of panels, that means the lands identified could provide 94,000 megawatts of renewable power.
Megan McCracken quoted in The Washington Post, May 13, 2016
“It’s very significant that the pharmaceutical industry is speaking with a unified, singular voice,” McCracken said. “Saying we don’t want our products used this way and actually taking steps to ensure that they aren’t.”
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted by Los Angeles Times, May 13, 2016
“Language like ‘buy now’ confuses the contexts of offline and online purchasing,” Hoofnagle said.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, May 10, 2016
Bill Gates’s Foundation Trust and his personal investment fund are locked in a brutal shareholder dispute in Switzerland over the sale of a controlling interest in the Swiss specialty chemicals maker Sika.