Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, October 11, 2011 by Jeffrey Gonzalez
http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/12/cameras-for-me-but-not-for-the
The president needs to be held accountable for his administration’s actions in losing millions of dollars by betting on a failing company with strong ties to his campaign.
San Jose Mercury News, October 5, 2011 by Matt Krupnick
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19040362?nclick_check=1
“I think the genie’s out of the bottle, in terms of amateurism and college sports,” he said after the event. “We need to recognize (athletes) for what they are, which is employees.”
The Deal Magazine, October 14, 2011 by David Marcus
http://www.thedeal.com/magazine/ID/042051/features/trolls,-geeks-and-lots-of-lawyers.php
“One way to think about how many patents you need is to look at how many patents companies with similar revenues have,” Barr says. “I looked at reaching at least a filing rate per year that met what other companies were doing adjusted for revenue.”
Patently-O, October 14, 2011 by Dennis Crouch
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2011/10/merges-justifying-intellectual-property.html
Merges believes that utilitarianism is important to intellectual property…. As Merges writes in his introduction “[m]aximizing utility, I have come to see, is not a serviceable first-order principle of the IP system. It is just not what IP is really all about at the deepest level.”
The New York Times, October 13, 2011 by Nancy K. D. Lemon and Heather B. Warnken
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/opinion/domestic-violence-and-a-murder-acquittal.html?scp=5&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt
There is no special battered woman’s defense. What we are talking about is evidentiary support — highly relevant and admissible — as to whether or not the defendant reasonably believed that her life was in danger.
San Francisco Chronicle, October 13, 2011 by David R. Baker
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/12/BU1A1LGVP3.DTL&type=business
“When a CEO gets into a position where the company may be facing criminal prosecution or a criminal investigation, the likelihood of the CEO leaving gets pretty high,” said Eric Talley, co-director of the UC Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy.
The Reason, October 12, 2011 by Jacob Sullum
http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/12/cameras-for-me-but-not-for-the
If a police officer is taking a picture of every interaction, one of the things that he may find is me, naked as a jaybird, when my wife calls to complain. Let’s assume that it’s either against the law or not, but I sure don’t want it on YouTube. The potential for a sort of permanent embarrassment is a looming presence when everything is filmed.
-The Baltimore Sun, October 12, 2011 by David Zurawik
http://bit.ly/s5Q3tM
“THE WAR ROOM will be a nightly show for political junkies like me and anyone who cares about the future of our country, focusing on the 2012 election from all angles. As a former governor, I want to take the viewers backstage to the great American drama that is democracy.”
-Associated Press, October 12, 2011 by Frazier Moore
http://news.yahoo.com/former-mich-governor-host-current-tv-talk-show-163841528.html
“I’m really interested in solutions,” Granholm said. “We’ll be taking a deeper dive to solutions to the most pressing problems out there.”
The Nation, October 11, 2011 by Sasha Abramsky
http://www.thenation.com/article/163894/questions-san-francisco-da-candidate-david-onek
In California, we’ve embarked on the biggest prison-building binge in history, and we’re paying the price for it. We have what can only be described as an absolute fiscal crisis. The number-one driver of that crisis is the cost of prisons.
Star-Telegram, October 8, 2011 by Aman Batheja
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/10/08/3430436/legislature-still-using-gimmicks.html
“Every state uses a number of less than perfectly transparent or gimmicky tools to balance their budgets,” said David Gamage, an assistant professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies public finance and taxes.