HB2: The wolf in sheep’s clothing driving women away from clinical abortion care in Texas

Jill Adams writes for American Constitution Society Blog, March 4, 2016

Justice Breyer correctly points out that excessive restrictions on abortion provision limit clinic access and increase the necessity for self-administered abortion care. Global data have consistently demonstrated that highly restrictive laws do not reduce the abortion rate, they simply relocate the site of abortion care from the hospital to the home.

Scalia’s blind spot

john a. powell writes for HuffPost Politics, March 4, 2016

Justice Scalia’s full-throated embrace of originalism had a convenient blind spot. He ignored the fact that there were, at least, two different Constitutions.

Edley rebounds, renews fight for social equity

Christopher Edley, Jr., and Ann O’Leary cited in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, March 3, 2016

“This new organization is combating the cycle of poverty with a cycle of opportunity, attacking the obstacles to success at critical stages in life,” Edley said. “Our approach to complex challenges is unique. We work across traditional issue silos and disciplinary perspectives, using an exceptionally broad range of tools to promote change at the local, state and national levels.”

 

The other co-founder of Opportunity Institute is Ann O’Leary, a senior policy adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Apple peels away at DOJ bid to unlock phones with NY win

Paul Schwartz quoted in Law360, March 1, 2016

“While the New York order is not directly binding outside this particular case, it does boost Apple because it undercuts the government’s argument that what is being requested in the San Bernardino case is minimal and unique by showing that these types of requests are being made all over the country,” said Paul Schwartz.

Can the FBI force a company to break into its own products?

Deirdre Mulligan quoted in The New York Times, March 1, 2016

The Federal Communications Commission updated CALEA-related regulations in 2005 to extend the government’s sway to voice-over-Internet phone services. Moves to expand it further, however, have fizzled, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service. …“This is a power that Congress has had numerous opportunities to extend and has chosen not to,” said Mulligan.

New California data security and breach notification requirements

Lothar Determann writes for Bloomberg BNA, Feb. 29, 2016

If a company unreasonably delays notice, it can be held liable under the California breach notification statute based on a general negligence theory. But, unlike other states’ statutes, the California data breach notification statute doesn’t specify a concrete deadline or safe harbor that companies can rely on for their decision about when to notify.