The Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2011 by John Letzing
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904070604576516211224146034.html
“We’re not rewarding the people bringing products to market,” said Robert Barr, who runs the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a former patent counsel at Cisco Systems Inc. “That’s a net negative for the economy.”
Firstpost, August 19, 2011 by Bernice Yeung
http://bit.ly/p54Md3
“It’s common these days for legal permanent residents”—or green card holders—”with criminal convictions to be placed in deportation proceedings,” said Aarti Kohli, director of immigration policy at UC Berkeley School of Law’s Warren Institute. “It used to be that if you are a green card holder, you had almost all of the same benefits, rights, and protections that a US citizen has. These days, a legal permanent resident is a misnomer. You are not permanent; you are placed in a precarious position, and even low-level offences land you in deportation proceedings.”
-The Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2011 by Julia Angwin
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576508382675931492.html
Major websites such as MSN.com and Hulu.com have been tracking people’s online activities using powerful new methods that are almost impossible for computer users to detect, new research shows.… Separately last month, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, led by law professor Chris Hoofnagle, found supercookie techniques used by dozens of sites.
-San Francisco Chronicle, August 21, 2011 by James Temple
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-08-21/business/29911051_1_cookies-online-privacy-online-marketers
Our study also found over 600 third-party hosts of cookies, most of which are not members of any self-regulatory organization (and thus aren’t bound to the rules of opt-out programs). They’re not even necessarily advertisers, they could be governments. We really don’t know who they are.
-The Baltimore Sun, August 17, 2011 by Justin Fenton
http://bit.ly/n8ns6R
“There’s certainly been no major economic or institutional steps forward that one would confidently expect would be reflected amid crime declines,” Zimring said. “It isn’t that declining crime reflects good news on a lot of other fronts — it’s almost an isolated piece of good news without any obvious linkage to other nice things happening in these cities.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, August 18, 2011 by Matthai Kuruvila
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-08-18/news/29899333_1_oakland-police-mayor-jean-quan-city-council-members/2
Zimring said Oakland’s crime statistics prove that increasing or decreasing the number of police won’t necessarily impact the crime rate.… “There’s nothing crystal clear in the recent statistical patterns of Oakland when you look at them against the statistical patterns of other area cities,” Zimring said.
San Jose Mercury News, August 18, 2011 by Lisa M. Krieger
http://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/2011/08/MercNewsUCOnline-081811.html
UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Dean Christopher Edley, who is leading the effort, persuaded the regents to try the approach. While ambitious, it falls short of his previous scheme: an entirely online UC campus. “We can’t treat UC as a precious little box,” he said. “Demand is growing.”
POLITICO Pro, August 16, 2011 by Michelle Quinn
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“California can refuse to approve the deal unless certain conditions are met,” Weissman said. “This would force AT&T and T-Mobile to alter the agreement in order to move ahead. Even though California’s authority doesn’t reach beyond its borders, the companies can’t merge one way in California, and another way everywhere else. In effect, a roadblock in California stops traffic on a national level.”
-Chicago Tribune, August 16, 2011 by Ameet Sachdev
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0816-motorola-phone-patents–20110816,0,6973280.story
“It’s an escalation of the patent wars,” said Robert Merges, director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California at Berkeley. “Google is raising the stakes.”
-Chicago Tribune, August 16, 2011 by Wailin Wong
http://bit.ly/puNXuY
“If you’re an employee or somebody hoping Motorola stays in the game and stays as a corporate presence, this may not be good news for you,” Merges said.
KQED-FM, Forum, August 16, 2011 Host Scott Shafer
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201108161000
“The three strikes law certainly has had a significant effect on increasing the prison population. Between the third strike provision and the second strike provision, there are almost 35,000 prisoners who are there specifically because of this law. The fact that they’re staying so long increases the prison-crowding situation.”
The Christian Science Monitor, August 16, 2011 by Daniel B. Wood
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0816/BART-puts-social-media-crackdown-in-uncharted-legal-territory
“This is loaded with legal issues that could go one way in a district court and another in a circuit court, but the US Supreme Court is the only one that can really clarify them definitively,” says Jesse Choper, a constitutional law professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at University of California, Berkeley. “Both sides will have lots of ways to articulate their cases, and it will be compelling to see where it all leads. This is substantially uncharted territory.”
San Jose Mercury News, August 15, 2011 by Rick Radin
http://www.mercurynews.com/real-estate-news/ci_18686185
Laura Lane … said her agency also is seeing an increase in evictions because tenants cannot pay the rent. “Historically, our clients have been disabled people or on public benefits,” she said. “In the last couple of years, we’re seeing people who are recently poor and are now spiraling into homelessness because they have lost their incomes.”