Jesse Choper interviewed by CBS News, Jan. 5, 2016
“If you were to replace one of the conservatives, Kennedy or any of them, with a liberal, then you would have a radical change going forward and you may even have some changes going backwards,” said Choper, who pointed out that a court with a liberal majority could reverse earlier cases.
Franklin Zimring interviewed by The Washington Post, Jan. 5, 2016
“It is certainly consistent with the capacity and responsibility of the executive branch of government to make legislative standards coherent and clear,” Zimring said. Obama is “trying to make it coherent and clear—and give it more reach.”
Christopher Hoofnagle and Eduard Meleshinsky paper cited on MediaPost, Jan. 4, 2016
“Our findings suggest that even with a prominent disclosure, a substantial number of consumers are misled about the advertising nature of advertorials,” Hoofnagle and Eduard Meleshinsky, a former Berkeley Law Public Interest Fellow, write in Technology Science.
Justin McCrary quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 31, 2015
Banks have been successful at limiting the amount of cash on hand and initiating other “target hardening” efforts. “It’s not as lucrative today,” McCrary said. “It’s either a crime of desperation or a crime of the uninformed.”
Franklin Zimring interviewed by KQED-FM, Dec. 30, 2015
“If you’re a police officer there, and there’s a brick through a Muslim house of worship, then what you have to do is round up the usual suspects. They’re the same people who drink too many beers in bars and will in other situations go off gay-bashing or finding themselves racial minorities,” he said. “Those are essentially thugs taking on different targets because Muslims are in the news.”
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 30, 2015
In the current political atmosphere, courage to speak out for change faces heightened threat, and the party-state’s treatment of Pu serves as a tough reminder that its authority cannot be challenged by critical speech.
Melissa Murray interviewed by KPCC-FM, Dec. 30, 2015
Melissa Murray said the cases represent a collision of legal rights. She said the courts have recognized both freedom of speech and the right to an abortion as protected freedoms under the Constitution, so “the question here isn’t does one prevail over the other, but how do you accommodate both of them?”
Elisabeth Semel interviewed by Daily Journal (registration required), Dec. 30, 2015
“It is entirely in keeping with the precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court,” Semel said. In recent cases reviewing the use of a causal nexus rule in Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a “nexus requirement prevents a sentencer from giving meaningful consideration to constitutionally relevant mitigation,” Semel said.
Kim Thuy Seelinger interviewed by The Guardian, Dec. 22, 2015
“This case is quite extraordinary in that not only do we have allegations of sexual violence committed by the defendant’s subordinates, but we also have allegations of rape and sexual torture committed by Habré personally. This is really rare,” said Kim Thuy Seelinger.
Melissa Murray interviewed by C-SPAN, Dec. 21, 2015
“Not all of the rights in the Constitution are actually enumerated in the Constitution’s text. … There are other kinds of rights that might be divined later through judicial interpretation, and the 9th amendment sort of speaks to that. The three-judge panel talked about the 9th amendment being a source of rights like this one: the right to have an abortion.”