Franklin Zimring quoted in The Washington Post, July 7, 2015
“What sets the American pattern so clearly apart from the rest of developed nations is a byproduct of the generation after 1972,” said Franklin Zimring, a University of California at Berkeley law professor.
Roxanna Altholz and Laurel E. Fletcher write for The New York Times, July 5, 2015
For decades, Haitians and their progeny have served as a scapegoat for Dominican politicians who blame them for poverty, disease and crime. The Dominican Republic should put a halt to the sporadic roundups and summary expulsions. If it doesn’t, the international community must step in.
Jesse Choper quoted in The Daily Californian, July 5, 2015
Because of the characterization of SCR 35 as a resolution, it does not have the force of law, which means it places no restrictions on speech. According to Jesse Choper … the legislature can take most kinds of symbolic action as long as it doesn’t amount to telling citizens what they can and cannot do.
Andrea Roth quoted in Contra Costa Times, July 4, 2015
“I think in general in this country, you don’t see the homicide law used against corporations in the past because we don’t want to chill commerce,” Roth said. “It’s looked at as something that is part of the risk of living and doing business…. That’s always the balance the law tries to find.”
Jesse Choper quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, July 4, 2015
Choper said the current court consists of nine justices who are “all very smart, and they write strong opinions.” They also are, he added, “highly polarized and highly partisan” even as they profess to “get along famously” on a personal level.
Justin McCrary interviewed for KQED-FM, July 2, 2015
“The goal that we had was to look back over the past half century of U.S. experience with respect to police hiring … trying to understand the extent to which it’s true that police get hired in idiosyncratic years versus years that are, for example, associated with fears about an upcoming crime wave. And what we largely determined is that there seems to be a lot of idiosyncrasy with respect to police hiring.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, July 1, 2015
The $50 billion valuation of Uber, the car-hailing service, has been held up as an illustration that Silicon Valley is in the middle of another bubble. Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital giant, disagrees.
Jennifer Moreno quoted in The New York Times, June 30, 2015
“I don’t think that the Supreme Court’s stamp of approval cures the deficiencies with this drug,” said Jennifer Moreno.… “The drug has proven itself to not do what people thought it was going to do. Any of the department officials who are following this and have looked at the science would be very right to be nervous to include this drug.”
Jesse Choper quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, June 30, 2015
Throw in the health care case, a 6-3 ruling last week upholding insurance subsidies for 6.4 million low- to middle-income people in 34 states, and you have “the biggest year for the liberals in many that I can remember,” said Jesse Choper.
Pamela Samuelson quoted in The New York Times, June 29, 2015
“I don’t think this decision will have much effect” on the software industry, said Pamela Samuelson.… “Some of us were hoping for a little more clarity on copyright, but that will come from other courts.”