Stephen Rosenbaum interviewed for KPCC-FM, Feb. 24, 2016
“This is about releasing personal data to the plaintiffs’ organizations. This information is going to be handled by the attorneys under a strict protective order. … Information that’s presented to the court at trial or at some motion before trial … is not going to come even close to identifying individual students.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Feb. 23, 2016
As growth slows at home, more and more Chinese companies are looking to do deals in the United States. And they are increasingly running smack into the American national security apparatus.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2016
The announcement last week that the board is officially exploring “strategic alternatives”—code for a sale—and hiring advisers is confirmation that it is still stumbling, refusing to take a stand as its chief executive, Marissa Mayer, flounders.
Melissa Murray and Claudia Polsky interviewed by The Daily Californian, Feb. 22, 2016
“Laws that unduly target access to reproductive health services compromise the dignity of women and impair their ability to participate in society as equal citizens,” Murray said in an email.
“I feel like millions of women are in peril of losing rights that we’ve taken for granted for a few decades,” said Claudia Polsky, a Berkeley Law assistant professor and director of Berkeley’s Environmental Law Clinic. Polsky was one of 113 women in the legal profession to sign an amicus curiae brief in which they detailed their experiences with abortion.
Jim Dempsey quoted in Los Angeles Times, Feb. 22, 2016
“The government is being a little disingenuous in arguing it’s just about this one case,” he said. “I think Apple is being a little disingenuous in arguing the resolution in this particular case will decide the issues forever in all future cases.”
Deirdre Mulligan quoted in San Jose Mercury News, Feb. 21, 2016
The global implication of this case is that “our devices will be built in a way that allows evidence gathering,” said Deirdre Mulligan. … “Once we introduce vulnerability into the network, it can make different sorts of attacks possible.”
Jonathan Simon interviewed by Salon, Feb. 21, 2016
“Scalia was perhaps the strongest opponent of proportionality analysis of any kind under the Amendment,” emails Jonathan Simon. … “A more robust proportionality rule would go a long way to eliminating some outsized determinate sentences that drive a big part of mass incarceration.”
Franklin Zimring cited in The Washington Post, Feb. 20, 2016
Expanding inmates’ eligibility would have been a calculated risk, said University of California, Berkeley, law professor Frank Zimring, who has studied California prisons for more than 30 years. He warned that recruiting in jails may be tougher because many prisoners there have shorter sentences and may have active drug or mental health problems.
Melissa Murray quoted in Medical Xpress, Feb. 19, 2016
The report fails to take into account that pregnancy is not something every woman wants. “There are maybe lots of women who want to be pregnant,” says Murray, “but there are also women who have no interest in being pregnant, don’t want to be mothers, or at least don’t want to be mothers through pregnancy.”
Christopher Edley quoted in The Daily Californian, Feb. 19, 2016
“In the longer run, we hope to play an important role in building and supporting a national network of equity-oriented efforts to improve educational opportunities,” Edley said.