Jim Dempsey quoted in Newsweek, Feb. 17, 2016
“I would strongly oppose the legislative mandate that Apple designs all future phones to be accessible,” Dempsey says. “I would rather have the courts decide this. It often happens that legislations happen without a full attention to the facts.”
David Carrillo and Melissa Murray quoted on NBCNews.com, Feb. 16, 2016
David A. Carrillo, executive director of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law, agreed: “California is the tail that wags the dog on so many issues.”
Maybe the famous swing justice would have extra sympathy for a Californian. As Murray put it wryly, “We are always thinking about how to resonate with Justice Kennedy.”
Christopher Edley quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 16, 2016
“We take a cradle-to-career approach to ways education policy changes could improve opportunities for upward mobility and equity,” Edley said.
Christopher Edley writes for The Huffington Post: HuffPost Education, Feb. 16, 2016
Education is the key to make opportunity less serendipitous and more systemic for all of us. True educational opportunity is the best path to the promised land where difference is not destiny and dreams are not coded by color or class. But narrowly understood, it is not enough.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Feb. 16, 2016
The battle over Argentina’s debt is at the end stage, as the hedge funds and the country enter into negotiations to resolve the dispute. The hedge funds may claim victory, reaping billions of dollars on legal technicalities, but there are no real winners in this sorry affair.
Dan Farber interviewed by Politico Magazine, Feb. 14, 2016
Scalia’s prose can make for entertaining and sometimes invigorating reading. But Scalia’s tone was always calculated to deny any legitimacy to the opposing side.
Susan Gluss quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, February 13, 2016
“In previous decades, the state heavily subsidized the cost of an education for California’s public university students — thus, California students were able to pay substantially less than out-of-state students who weren’t subsidized,” said Susan Gluss.
Pamela Samuelson writes for The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 13, 2016
The Authors Alliance represents authors who want their books to be discoverable and reach new generations of readers. Book Search helps to achieve this goal. It consists largely of nonfiction books written by scholars in the hope that the books would be read by others and contribute to the ongoing progress of knowledge creation and dissemination, in keeping with the constitutional purpose of copyright.
Alexa Koenig writes for The Huffington Post: HuffPost Politics, Feb. 12, 2016
My daughter isn’t saying she wants to be president because of the issues. She’s saying she wants to be president because she wants to break a barrier—and the only way to break that barrier is to capitalize on her identity to rectify the fact that women have been absent from our highest levels of leadership for far too long.
Steven Davidoff Solomon and Matthew D. Cain study cited in Daily Journal, Feb. 11, 2016
According to a recent study, stockholder suits in Delaware were filed in 87 percent of all transactions last year, a decline from 95 percent in 2014. But the plaintiffs’ bar hit the brakes hard in the fourth quarter of 2015 – filing lawsuits on just 21.4 percent of the deals involving Delaware-incorporated companies.