Ethan Elkind writes for San Francisco Chronicle, August 6, 2014
While we want to ensure careful transit planning with proper community input, safety and cost-effectiveness, the multiyear processes are unnecessary and counterproductive. We must accelerate high-priority transit projects, which are vital for our economic competitiveness, quality of life, and environment.
Joan Heifetz Hollinger quoted in Slate, August 6, 2014
“There are issues across the board with regard to health care of the surrogate and whether the surrogate can or should be required to undergo tests, including fetal diagnostic test or an amnio.” If a surrogate decides to keep a baby against the commissioning parents’ wishes, are they responsible for that baby? If the surrogate raises the child, can she sue the biological father for child support?
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, August 5, 2014
The Internet giants are not just conglomerates but also the largest venture capitalists on the block. Not only are they buying early-stage businesses to incubate and grow, they are starting their own businesses outside their original mission.
Christopher Hoofnagle writes for Medium, August 4, 2014
Privacy surveys find that individuals care about privacy, but any observer of social networks can find a great deal of profligate, ill-advised information sharing.
Jonathan Simon interviewed on This is Hell, August 2, 2014
“2014 is to mass incarceration what 1964 was to segregation – the year that it became totally discredited, but also ended up becoming the norm for American society.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon and Peter J. Henning write for The New York Times, August 1, 2014
Allergan has taken a well-worn route to fight off a takeover bid from Valeant Pharmaceuticals and William A. Ackman’s hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management: Sue them.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, July 31, 2014
The bargain the two competitors struck is completely in Zillow’s favor. It permits the company to walk away from the transaction if regulators take any step to limit the combined company on antitrust grounds. Not only that, the parties agreed to severely limit what Trulia can do in the operation of its business until the deal closes or is terminated.
Catherine Crump quoted in The Washington Post, July 30, 2014
“It truly is a suspicion-less search policy,” said Catherine Crump, an assistant law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. “When you cross the border, the U.S. government asserts the right to search for no reason at all.”
Jesse Choper quoted in Associated Press, July 30, 2014
“If you can prove that they are there to seek money, not simply conveying a message … they are subject to greater regulation,” said Jesse Choper.
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2014
Local protectionism is a systemic defect in China’s governance that has been difficult to control because it exists from the provincial level on down. It is so pervasive that it is not possible to know how provincial officials will respond to the reform, or whether they will encourage, or impede, lower-level reforms.