Roxanna Altholz quoted in The National Law Journal, Oct. 30, 2015
“The defendant in this case is an extraordinarily unique individual. This is not a run-of-the-mill drug conspiracy case,” she said. Giraldo-Serna “committed the most atrocious crimes that you can imagine.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Oct. 30, 2015
Rural/Metro was the first case in which a court held an investment bank liable for monetary damages. … The case has turned into a referendum on when banks should be held liable for misdeeds and whether Delaware courts are too harsh on banks.
Kenneth Bamberger interviewed by Dutch National Public Radio, Oct. 28, 2015
“Privacy regimes in both the European Union and the United States don’t deliver what they promise. They both need to be strengthened. The E.U. has a long way to go, as well.”
Pamela Samuelson writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 27, 2015
The guild argues that the ruling deprives authors of licensing revenues that were sought as a remedy for Google’s use of in-copyright books. But the appellate court was unpersuaded by the guild’s licensing theory, because, it said, what matters for purposes of fair-use analysis is whether snippets displace the market for books, which the court held they do not.
Elisabeth Semel quoted in Daily Journal (registration required), Oct. 27, 2015
The state Supreme Court, which affirmed Crittenden’s conviction back in 1994, would likely take issue with both the majority and the dissent’s approval of “comparative juror analysis” as a tool for resolving these issues, according to Elisabeth A. Semel.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Oct. 27, 2015
The recent turmoil in the shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International reveals a dangerous tendency of these funds to engage in herd behavior, following the crowd as they plunge in and out of a stock.
Fred Smith quoted in The New York Times, Oct. 23, 2015
“Now that federal courts are exposed to how bad things have gotten in so many jurisdictions, I think that federal judges are shocked and want to do something about it,” Mr. Smith said.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Oct. 21, 2015
While the fears of cord cutting, declining viewership and sinking ad revenues have hit media stocks more generally, Viacom has been particularly buffeted by the viewer falloff.
Franklin Zimring quoted in The New York Times Magazine, Oct. 20, 2015
“If you keep throwing people in prison, you run out of the most dangerous guys, and you start suffering from diminishing marginal returns,” says Franklin Zimring.
Jonathan Simon quoted in Daily Journal (registration required), Oct. 19, 2015
UC Berkeley law professor Jonathan Simon would like to see drug courts’ best features integrated into the justice system as a whole, rather than confined to a specialized sub-system. “If we’re now in an era when there’s possibilities for rescaling our ambitions for what the criminal process ought to handle, then I think that drug courts might be part of the problem,” Simon said.