Rocket Lawyer, November 15, 2011 by Charley Moore and Eva Arevuo
http://legallyeasy.rocketlawyer.com/the-road-to-citizens-united-93874
Echoing Stevens, Berkeley Law professor Jesse Choper, who we spoke to in last week’s podcast, agreed that corporate money was a dangerous injection into the democratic system: “the force of big sums of money is really a very corruptive force in American democracy.”
The New York Times, November 14, 2011 by Ben Sisario
http://nyti.ms/uwHypv
“When you own something you get to customize it, modify it, move it around — the things that we do all the time with physical property,” Professor Schultz said. “That needs to be applied to digital music here in order to get it off your hard drive, to their service and to the next person.”
The New York Times, November 14, 2011 by Somini Sengupta
http://nyti.ms/sCvkmr
“It’s convenient,” Mr. Hoofnagle said. “But do you want Facebook and Google to know where you’re going?”
Huffington Post, November 14, 2011 by Ty Alper
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ty-alper/berkeley-protests_b_1087429.html
Bizarrely, the Chancellor suggests that the difference between protestors engaging in a) honorable civil disobedience and b) police obstruction justifying violence is whether the protestors are linking arms with each other. Since when is linking arms and standing ground not non-violent civil disobedience?
The Daily Californian, November 14, 2011 by Aaida Samad
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/14/uc-berkeley-group-scheduled-training-session-for-legal-observers-in-light-of-recent-protests/
The Boalt Hall Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild held a training for legal observers Monday afternoon, according to Daniela Urban, a UC Berkeley School of Law student who has served as a legal observer at past protests. “The role of the legal observer is to document police movement and police abuse,” Urban said.
The Daily Californian, November 13, 2011 by Afsana Afzal
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/13/ucpd-draws-criticism-for-stopping-occupy-cal-protesters-carrying-signs/
“There have been some confrontational incidents in the last couple of hours that demonstrate that the officers expect immediate compliance with their request for ID,” Vanden Heuvel said in the email. “While we do not understand UCPD’s position on this issue, we cannot control or direct UCPD’s behavior and we are concerned for your safety and well being.”
“I don’t know if law students were familiar with UC regulations … but the police response came across as overly aggressive, upsetting our students,” said Susan Gluss, spokesperson for the school.
San Francisco Chronicle, November 13, 2011 by Susan Gluss
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/13/INUO1LT0O5.DTL
Stay focused on financial institutions and Wall Street. What did they do that wrecked millions of American lives? They stole homes. They sold sub-prime loans to unsuspecting homeowners, falsified documents to hasten foreclosures, and packaged mortgage securities for investors that nearly bankrupted America.
NMPolitics.net, November 11, 2011 by Vivek Gopalan
http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2011/11/obamacare-is-an-important-first-step/
With a problem as big as health care, Congress had to start somewhere. They needed to build the infrastructure whereby all future reform can happen, and make immediate changes to address the failings of our current system. And, with ObamaCare, they did just that.
San Francisco Chronicle, November 11, 2011 by Will Kane and Demian Bulwa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/10/MNH21LTC4D.DTL
A review led by Wayne Brazil, a UC Berkeley law professor and retired federal magistrate judge, said the effort to push the crowd back a few feet was “incomprehensible” and “resulted in chaos, confusion and considerable violence.”
San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 2011 by Joe Garofoli
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/09/MN7I1LRKVN.DTL&type=printable
“All of these plans would lower taxes on high-income earners,” said Alan Auerbach, a professor of economics and law at UC Berkeley.