The Oakland Tribune, February 25, 2012 by Tammerlin Drummond
http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_20046550
“It hasn’t done it very well,” UC Berkeley [lecturer] Stephen Rosenbaum says. “Every time an incident like this occurs, it raises the question, what should we be doing? There are no easy answers.”
-Los Angeles Times, February 24, 2012 by Reed Johnson
http://lat.ms/x6ERXC
The authors go on to observe that from 2002 through 2012, “almost 20 percent of nominees were people of color,” a “notable increase” over the 9% of Oscar nominees in the top categories who were people of color between 1990 and 2000. That’s the good news.
-COLORLINES, February 26, 2012 by Jorge Rivas
http://bit.ly/ykOasl
No winner in any acting category during the last ten years has been Latino, Asian American, or Native American, according to a new study titled “Not Quite a Breakthrough: The Oscars and Actors of Color, 2002-2012.”
-LA Weekly, February 26, 2012 by Dennis Romero
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/02/oscars_academy_awards_white_diversity.php
Along with its overwhelmingly white, geezerly voting population, the paper notes that just one of the Academy’s 43 board of governors members is not white. The researchers want the Academy to start a diversity task force.
The New York Times, Room for Debate, February 23, 2012 by Ian Haney-Lopez
http://nyti.ms/Af4rxh
The court seems intent on making federal laws banning discrimination as ineffective as they’ve rendered the constitution in detecting racial mistreatment; and also poised to extend the ban on affirmative action to corporations, private hospitals, foundations and unions. If these come to pass, the court will have curtailed every direct means of achieving an integrated society.
PR Newswire, February 23, 2012 by Galen Munroe
http://prn.to/xlB4wV
“Loomis is violating various international labor standards which protect the right of workers to be represented by the union of their choice,” said David Rosenfeld, Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law.
The North Coast Journal Weekly of Politics, People & Art, February 23, 2012 by Zach St. George
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/news/2012/02/23/justice-ashes/
In cases when police don’t have time to get a warrant, Choper explained, there are circumstances that make it legally excusable to enter someone’s property warrantless. Those are called “exigent circumstances.” He also said that on the bomb squad’s way to the bomb, whatever evidence of other criminal activity that was in plain view would be usable in court.
The Independent Voter Network, February 23, 2012 by Daniel Farber
http://ivn.us/2012/02/23/founders-original-intent-far-from-crystal-clear/
People rely on rulings by the Supreme Court to provide consistency and prevent the proverbial rug from being pulled out from under them. But it can be difficult to decide when an erroneous ruling should be left intact. Again, reasonable judges can reach different conclusions even if they are both believers in upholding the original intention of the Constitution.
Bloomberg Businessweek, February 21, 2012 by Karen Weise
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/why-facebook-must-stay-quiet-02212012.html
Since the 2005 reforms are fairly recent, and the IPO market has been cool during much of that time, lawyers are still quite conservative about how they interpret the relaxed rules, Talley says. They advise their clients to keep extra quiet, which can prove to be particularly hard for tech companies, where “part of the culture is to have a little bit of public swagger,” and showmanship is part of the business plan, he says.
-San Francisco Chronicle, February 21, 2012 by Marisa Lagos
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/20/BA311N818B.DTL&ao=allo
“If California were to close the entire system, we would be, as far as I can tell, the first state in the nation to do so,” he said. “I think what the LAO is saying is, ‘Here are all the things you need to do if you want to make it work.’ I agree with all the things that need to be done … but I don’t see the infrastructure in place to pull this off.”
-KQED Forum, February 24, 2012 Host Dan Iverson
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201202240930
“I do not think that any of the counties currently have either the training or the programs to manage the youth that are currently in the Department of Juvenile Justice. I think the notion that the counties are already managing people like those in DJJ is just not true.”
The New York Times Upfront, February 20, 2012 by Erica Goode
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BUE/is_10_144/ai_n58571231/?tag=content;col1
One concern is what happens to any potentially embarrassing footage, says Franklin Zimring, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. “I sure don’t want it on YouTube,” Zimring says. “The potential for a sort of permanent embarrassment is a looming presence when everything is filmed.”
-Salon, February 19, 2012 by Irin Carmon
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/19/what_its_like_to_be_shipped_home/singleton/
Another report by the University of California at Berkeley Law School found that about one-third of the 226,000 immigrants deported under “Secure Communities,” a program that links local law enforcement to immigration status, had spouses or children who are U.S. citizens.
-Star Tribune, February 24, 2012 by Ian Bratlie
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/140372963.html
A study by the Warren Institute at the Berkeley Law School estimated that more than 3,600 U.S. citizens were unlawfully held due to Secure Communities flags. From the time Secure Communities began in October 2008 through April 2011, Homeland Security received 7.8 million sets of fingerprints.