Catherine Crump interviewed by KQED News, Jan. 22, 2016
“It’s an example of a community trying to grasp hold of how technology is changing, and actually exert some control over the degree which people are going to be subject to surveillance and then in what ways,” she said. … “Oakland has the capacity to really be a model here.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Jan. 22, 2016
For years, companies have complained that nearly every acquisition attracts a flurry of lawsuits. Nearly 95 percent of all deals in 2014 had a lawsuit. But a new study … finds that this all changed in 2015. A Delaware court crackdown on takeover litigation has driven the litigation rate to less than 22 percent.
Megan McCracken and Jennifer Moreno interviewed by San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2016
The proposal by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation “is not based on sound research and amounts to experimentation” on human beings, said Megan McCracken.
State prison officials haven’t specified “how they will choose the pharmacy, what guidelines the pharmacy will use, what testing will be done, if any,” Moreno said. “They haven’t given any information about doses, concentration” and other critical details, she said.
Megan McCracken interviewed by San Jose Mercury News, Jan. 20, 2016
“The proposed regulation is replete with legal, ethical, medical and logistical problems,” said Megan McCracken, a lethal injection expert with UC Berkeley law school’s death penalty clinic.
Stephen Sugarman interviewed by The Daily Californian, Jan. 20, 2016
Sugarman added that the university’s prevailing idea is “‘we may not pay you as much as competitor schools, but we give you a better pension.’”
Christopher Hoofnagle interviewed by The Washington Post, Jan. 20, 2016
“An ISP has access to your full pipe and can see everything you do” online if you aren’t taking extra steps to shield your activities, said Chris Hoofnagle. … Other than corporate privacy policies, he said, nothing under current law prevents broadband companies from sharing information with marketers about what types of Web sites you visit.
John Yoo quoted by U.S. News & World Report, Jan. 19, 2016
“I think the deferred action for ‘dreamers’ will rise and fall with DAPA,” Yoo says. “If Obama loses on DAPA, which I expect he ultimately will, then he will have thrown out a measure that a majority of Americans support in order to unconstitutionally remake all of immigration law.”
Ian Haney López interviewed by National Journal, Jan. 19, 2016
“We need to talk about racism as a structuring force that hijacks our politics and the economy,” López said.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Jan. 19, 2016
The unicorn wars are coming, as the downturn in the market will force these onetime highfliers to seek money at valuations below their earlier billion-dollar-plus levels, known as “down rounds.”
Franklin Zimring interviewed by San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 18, 2016
“They’re good numbers — they’re wonderful news in terms of feeling less at risk,” Zimring said. “They are not clearly indicating that something particular worked. The person who reads Bay Area homicide numbers should be a cheerful agnostic.”