Anne O’Connell quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2015
“A lot of times conservatives are less likely to grant standing,” she said, as the 5th Circuit refused to in the recent Mississippi case, reaffirming the similarly conservative lower court’s denial of standing.
Jonathan Simon interviewed by Slate, March 18, 2015
“Does the Eighth Amendment just prevent torture, or does it protect something more? If it just protects us against torture then obviously it’s a very limited right, and we have to wait until things get really awful in prisons before courts are going to do anything. But if torture is just being protected against because it’s one way to destroy and degrade ‘human dignity,’ then I think almost everything we do in prison has to be rethought.”
Ian Haney López book cited in Victoria News, March 17, 2015
Likely no country has employed dog-whistle politics longer or with more gusto than the United States. Indeed, in a book published last year … law professor Ian Haney López traced the practice back to the 1960s, long before the term was coined in Australia.
Ian Haney López interviewed by Chicago Reporter, March 13, 2015
Dog whistle politics is all about the stimulation of racial fear. And yet, we should be clear on those who are doing the stimulating—on the politicians, the conservative sort of strategists, the Fox News media folks. … What happens in minority communities is just collateral damage. What they care about is winning votes, demonizing government, cutting taxes for the very rich.
David Carrillo quoted in Greenwire, March 13, 2015
The state Supreme Court does not “seek out specific policy issues to resolve,” said David Carrillo. … “Its role in the state judiciary is to settle legal issues of statewide importance as they arise.”
Steven Weissman quoted in SNL Financial (registration required), March 12, 2015
“This agency has extraordinary independence and a lack of checks and balances that would normally apply to voting members of the state Senate,” he said. “There is almost no court review of CPUC proceedings.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, February 24, 2015
At this point you may be scratching your head. How can Dish, a company with a $34 billion market value, be a “very small business”? … Through sleight of hand and aggressive use of partners and loopholes, Dish turned itself into that very small business, distorting reality and creating an unfair advantage.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, February 19, 2015
The surge in appraisal rights cases and the arguments from advocates and opponents have been dumped into the laps of the courts in Delaware, where most companies are incorporated and these actions mostly take place. Delaware judges are beginning to sort this issue out.
Carla Shapreau writes for The New York Times, September 21, 2012
During the war musical manuscripts, printed music, books and instruments were confiscated, swept up as war trophies, lost or displaced under circumstances of crisis. A Nazi unit known as the Sonderstab Musik was among those tasked with such looting. Evidence of seizures and opaque transactions during the Nazi era are scattered in a sea of archival records in the United States and Europe.
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2015
What remains unclear is whether Chinese leaders intend to make meaningful changes within that framework to raise the quality of Chinese justice, or are merely paying lip-service to justice as they continue the old patterns of authoritarian control.