Deirdre Mulligan quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 23, 2017
Uber, which is based in San Francisco, said names, email addresses and phone numbers for millions of riders were accessed, as well as the driver’s license numbers for about 600,000 drivers. The unauthorized access of those names and numbers would have triggered the requirement for such a disclosure in California, Ms. Mulligan said.
Erwin Chemerinsky cited by The Virginian-Pilot, Nov. 21, 2017
Erwin Chemerinsky … wrote that the idea of a wall between church and state was “left in disarray, if not shambles” by the ruling.
Adam Sterling quoted by Daily Journal (registration required), Nov. 20, 2017
Berkeley’s law school, in conjunction with the university’s business and engineering schools, will offer a class this spring titled, “Blockchain, Cryptoeconomics, and the Future of Technology, Business and Law.” … “If we can put our students on the front lines of this, they will leave law school very well prepared,” Sterling said.
Erwin Chemerinsky writes for The Sacramento Bee, Nov. 20, 2017
Trump already has nominated 58 individuals to federal court of appeals and district court judgeships. The American Bar Association, an independent and nonpartisan organization, for decades has evaluated federal judicial nominees. It has found four of these nominees to be “unqualified,” something that prior to the Trump presidency had occurred only four times since 1989.
Prasad Krishnamurthy quoted by Courthouse News, Nov. 20, 2017
“It will largely depend on the court and how willing the court is to believe these mergers can harm competition and how much deference they’re willing to give the government in what is largely a prospective case,” Krishnamurthy said in an interview.
Jesse Choper quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 18, 2017
“There’s very little speech that you can compel by law,” said … Choper. “You can require an organization to give very basic information. I don’t think you can require an organization to make statements that are disputed. … Those statements (about the harmful effects of abortion) are in dispute.”
Lauren B. Edelman writes for The Washington Post, Nov. 17, 2017
Human resources publications from that time show that there wasn’t much concern for the potential targets of harassment. Instead, management scholars and HR officers claimed that these policies would protect employers from liability in the event that a supervisor harassed an employee.
Nancy Lemon interviewed by KQED, Nov. 16, 2017
“Guns are used not just to kill people, but also to intimidate people and keep them under control. … [When seeing or hearing domestic abuse,] it’s really important to not just say ‘Oh, they’re at it again,’ but instead to call 911.”
Mark Gergen interviewed by KTVU, Nov. 16, 2017
“Under their budget rules, to have a 20% top corporate tax rate, they had to come up with a lot of revenue. Where they came up with revenue was by largely eliminating the deduction for state and local taxes.”
Jesse Choper quoted by California Magazine, Nov. 16, 2017
At this point, whether or not the university would eventually be allowed to restrict speakers based on cost can only be speculated, Choper says, and until such a case makes it to the Supreme Court, there’s no authoritative answer.