Joan Heifetz Hollinger quoted in Slate Magazine, June 25, 2013
“The law shouldn’t be read as giving hyped up protections to birth parents,” Hollinger told me. “Those protections are for parents who had a life with their child. In that sense, Alito’s decision is the correct reading of statute and it saves the core of ICWA—as it should.”
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in WUSA9, June 25, 2013
“Stores can take this information to a data-broker and ask them to match up the name with the zip-code in order to get the person’s home address. And they can get other information too. They might be able to get an e-mail address or a phone number as well,” says Chris Hoofnagle with UC Berkeley Law School.
Joan Heifetz Hollinger quoted by National Public Radio, June 25, 2013
“This is a case that dealt with a situation where a biological father, who knows about the pregnancy and a birth … sits on the sidelines,” Heifetz Hollinger says. “This is a message to mothers and fathers that simply using the biological trump card is not a way to establish or sustain a family relationship.”
Jesse Choper quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, June 24, 2013 (registration required)
Such predictions might be overstated, said Jesse Choper…. He said a ruling overturning the law should send a message to Congress to pass a new version with updated coverage standards. That would be difficult in the current Congress, Choper acknowledged, but “it would depend a lot on the pressure being put on them.”
Andrew Bradt quoted in Orange County Register, June 24, 2013 (registration required)
“It is certainly a very large settlement for this sort of case,” said Andrew Bradt, assistant professor of law and an expert on complex and multi-district litigation at the University of California, Berkeley…. “Toyota had advanced potentially viable defenses here, but what it signals is that rather than face the uncertainty of litigation, it made the most economic sense for them to obtain closure through the settlement.”
Sarah Song interviewed on KALW, Philosophy Talk, June 23, 2013 (registration required)
“Immigration gets at the core of who we are as a nation…. National boundaries are morally significant, even if arbitrary, because they demarcate a political community that provides all sorts of rights and liberties—and maybe more ambitiously, the opportunity for collective self-government.” (This program was recorded live at the Marsh Theater in San Francisco.)
Mary Ann Mason writes for The San Francisco Chronicle, June 20, 2013 (registration required)
The flap in the business community about San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu’s proposal to require more workplace flexibility provoked San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Vice President Jim Lazarus to tell The Chronicle the idea was “beyond unbelievable.” Perhaps relevant lessons can be learned from the pioneering and very successful family-friendly policies instituted across all 10 University of California campuses. They weren’t “unbelievable.” They strengthened the university, making it the beacon that other universities now are imitating.
Andrew Guzman interviewed by Current TV, The War Room, June 20, 2013
“There’s a sense that people have that climate change is a scientific topic, which obviously it is, but it’s also a social topic; how we respond to it is something that economists and law scholars look at all the time.”
Jason Schultz quoted in The New York Times, June 19, 2013
“It comes with inherent biases and prejudices that can be worse than the help it offers,” said Jason M. Schultz…. “It kind of reinforces its own data by redirecting resources to those areas.”
Stephen Sugarman interviewed by KTVU, June 18, 2013
“Winning in court might well be much less than the cost of ongoing battles, and it may be just as well to be done on this basis.”