The New York Times, July 17, 2011 by Binyamin Appelbaum
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/us/18econ.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt
“It’s coming to be accepted wisdom that it’s better to have spending cuts than tax increases,” said Alan Auerbach.
Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2011 by Jim Puzzanghera
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/16/business/la-fi-bryson-profile-20110716/2
“The fact that the company was in financial trouble during the crisis is really not so much a reflection of … the way it was managed,” Weissman said. “It was an indictment of the underlying premise for deregulation as it was designed in California.”
Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2011 by Jonathan Kaiman
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/14/world/la-fg-china-oil-spill-20110715
This week, a coalition of 11 Chinese environmental advocacy groups announced plans to file a joint lawsuit in hopes of garnering more transparency in the oil industry. Alex Wang, a Chinese environmental law expert at UC Berkeley Law School, said there was little hope of the lawsuit reaching court. “In China, incidents of this magnitude are seldom ever handled in the courts,” Wang said. “They’ll almost always be handled by the government.”
The Christian Science Monitor, July 13, 2011 by Daniel B. Wood
http://bit.ly/qDavAs
“This is not about the Browns’ attempt to get Utah to recognize polygamous marriage, but rather to ask the federal courts to tell them they cannot punish intimate conduct,” says Melissa Murray, assistant professor of law.
Adds Herma Hill Kay, a UC Berkeley law professor: “They are not seeking to have their relationship validated as a marriage. They’re just trying to avoid criminal prosecution.”
Progressive Railroading, July 13, 2011 by Editorial Staff
http://bit.ly/oHLW2V
“A good public transit system can create jobs, reduce commute time and expenses, and encourage smarter development that gives people more mobility and housing options,” he said.
ABC News, July 12, 2011 by Courtney Hutchison
http://abcn.ws/nxvh8J
“The statement ‘it has no accepted medical use’ is simply wrong as a statement of fact,” said Rob MacCoun…. “There is now considerable evidence showing medical benefits, at or exceeding standards of evidence for many other pharmaceuticals. Prescribing physicians in over a dozen states clearly see an accepted medical value for their patients.”
The New York Times, July 11, 2011 by Lawrence Hurley
http://nyti.ms/qiqmbJ
Legal experts do agree that there are enough differences between the GE and Sackett cases to explain why the court did not treat them the same. Holly Doremus, an environmental law professor … noted, for example, that the conservative wing of the court has a particular problem with wetlands regulation, which it sees, in her words, as a “breathtaking expansion of federal authority into virtually every corner of the geographic world.” The Superfund law does not attract “the same overt hostility” from those justices, which include the outspoken Antonin Scalia.
The Daily Californian, July 7, 2011 by Jonathan Tam
http://bit.ly/qcJRxX
Virginia Abascal, who has been a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Law for the past 15 years, said she would like to see more lecturers on campus because they “are vital to the classroom.” Abascal said she understands why the Academic Council recommended the utilization of more lecturers, because hiring lecturers saves the campus money.
The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, July 5, 2011 by Stanley Lubman
http://on.wsj.com/nqlxGz
Although there is no sign of any national movement taking shape, the central government is haunted by the Mideast revolutions. Local governments have responded to the protests with repression, sometimes violent. If the growing social unrest provokes further repression, might that response then provoke further social unrest? Or can the central government initiate reforms that would quiet discontent? The rise of protests suggests that it may be necessary to choose soon.
The Daily Californian, July 4, 2011 by Aaida Samad
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/07/04/concerns-arise-in-code-of-student-conduct-revision/
Task force member Daniela Urban, a UC Berkeley School of Law student and member of the Campus Rights Project, said that in terms of helping future protest-related student conduct cases, “regardless of what code of conduct is in effect, if the university is still viewing the protest as a disruption instead of a necessity, then they are still going to have problems with student conduct and student protests.”