Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, June 16, 2015
Now, not only are human-rights groups being targeted, but a wide range of other organizations hoping to integrate needed social services into Chinese society could be affected. It is not possible at this time to predict how vigorously and selectively the Law will be applied in practice, but the message of increased repression is clear.
Alan Auerbach quoted in San Jose Mercury News, June 15, 2015
“The governor is a very good politician, but he’s not the only politician in Sacramento,” said Alan Auerbach.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, June 11, 2015
These days, the pharmaceutical company Mylan is both the hunter and the hunted. The question is whether Mylan’s defense against a takeover attempt will run afoul of United States market rules and whether those rules will be enforced.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, June 10, 2015
J. Crew, Michelle Obama’s sometime clothing retailer, is yet another struggling private equity buyout. J. Crew’s owners, TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners, are stuck, tied to the bargain they struck with the company’s chief executive, Millard S. Drexler. Call it the “great man” problem.
David Carrillo quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, June 8, 2015
“A California charter city lowering the voting age for its residents is not so clearly legal that no one would challenge it,” said David A. Carrillo. … “It’s a new question. If it’s limited to San Francisco local elections, that probably gets upheld as a municipal affair. But there’s no question that the Legislature controls voter qualifications for statewide elections.”
Andrea Roth quoted in Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2015
“If there is a sense that this is a chronic problem, a habit, then taking away the phone is much more tightly linked to the problem,” Roth said. “There would have to be some showing that … she would do the same thing again.”
John Yoo interviewed for Newsmax TV, June 4, 2015
“What worries me is that the end of the NSA bulk collection program is taking away exactly the kind of tool we need for the kind of attacks we’re going to be getting in the future, which is going to be more dispersed, less like the 9/11 hijackers, and more like the Boston Marathon bombing.”
Jennifer Moreno interviewed on MSNBC, The Rachel Maddow Show, June 1, 2015
“I think that we’re faced with a bit of a different situation now, and that is, over the course of the last few years, a number of states have passed really strict legislation, specifically aimed at preventing the public, prisoners, attorneys, and the media from having access to where they’re getting drugs.”
Richard Rothstein commencement speech reprinted in The Washington Post, June 4, 2015
“Ethical choices do not consist either of civil disobedience that refuses to participate in an unjust system, or of obsequious compliance with corrupt orders. Ethical lives are comprised of compromises, of considering where to take stands and where not to make waves.”
Elisabeth Semel interviewed for Daily Journal (registration required), June 3, 2015
“The 9th Circuit has not hesitated to take on the California Supreme Court when it concludes that the high court has given short shrift to federal constitutional requirements, and did so today in Pensinger.” The circuit panel found that the omitted instruction, Semel noted, “is a constitutional necessity, not mere state law nicety.”