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.”
Barry Krisberg quoted in The Washington Post, June 1, 2015
“The study looked at who was committing the violence, who was doing the shooting and when,” said Barry Krisberg. “And it came down to a small number of people. … Violence tends to be concentrated in certain social areas, and most of the people who engage in criminal violence engage people they know, or are related to, and it spreads from generation to generation.”
Stanley Lubman quoted in The New York Times, May 29, 2015
“The ideology is far thinner and holds the attention of the populace far less powerfully than before,” said Stanley Lubman. … “As a result, the Chinese Communist Party needs more institutional support than before, and may need even more. This helps to explain the attention that law has recently been receiving since Xi came to power.”
Jesse Choper quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, May 28, 2015
“Government restrictions have got to be reasonable,” added Professor Jesse Choper. … “They can restrict what (protesters) are carrying, whether it’s a garbage-can lid or weapons of mass destruction,” Choper said. “You can’t hold a peaceful antiwar march on the Bay Bridge in the middle of the afternoon, so I think the burden of proof will be on the city to show these are reasonable restrictions.”
Franklin Zimring quoted in San Jose Mercury News, May 26, 2015
UC Berkeley Professor Frank Zimring, who has written books about America’s crime rate, says ascertaining the root causes of crime is more complicated than many believe. He looked at declining crime rates in the 1990s, for instance, and determined that there was “practically nothing” that could be used to explain crime’s decline during that era. “I ended up calling it ‘criminological astrology,’” Zimring said.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, May 26, 2015
This would all be just another story of an entrenched chief executive who treats the company as his own playground were Gamco not an asset manager, which is a fiduciary to the ordinary people who give Gamco money to invest. Not only is it an asset manager, it is an active one, pressing companies to improve their corporate governance. In other words, Gamco appears to be a shareholder advocate for everyone but itself.