The Wall Street Journal, April 27, 2011 by John Yoo and David Marston
http://on.wsj.com/ikTYlo
Suppose that during the civil rights movement segregationist governors ordered all state contractors to disclose their political donations in an attempt to expose civil rights supporters to harassment and retaliation. The Supreme Court would have had none of it.
KALW News, The Informant, April 26, 2011 by Rina Palta
http://informant.kalwnews.org/2011/04/debating-what-to-do-about-oaklands-homicide-wave/
Where Johnson falls victim to his own “common sense” is in believing there is a way to deter those bullets today (or the hands firing them). But everything we know from empirical research and the experience of our own failed war on crime is that young men do not put enough stock in the future to be deterred by crackdowns and long prison terms (they already accept those consequences).
San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 2011 by James Temple
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/24/BUPR1J4HRL.DTL
“Courts have become more skeptical of these claims, but as the stakes in them have gone up, they’re more frequently asserted as well,” said Eric Talley, co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. “They have a lower probability of success, but if they succeed they’re worth a lot of money.”
Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2011 by David Kirp
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kirp-esteem-20110424,0,4748601.story
Success in school doesn’t necessarily result from ceaselessly drilling students to prep them for achievement tests. “Noncognitive” factors, such as students’ sense that they fit in and are capable of doing the work, profoundly affect what they learn. Whether they believe they have the brainpower and the social skills to make it in the achievement-oriented world of school can shape how well they actually do.
Times-Standard, April 22, 2011 by Thadeus Greenson
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_17907205
Over the decades, the reach of the Brady ruling has expanded, and it now requires that prosecutors turn over any material that might impeach a witness or their testimony…. Some are even starting to craft “Brady lists”—lists of officers whose mere involvement in a case will trigger automatic disclosures. “This can, obviously, create a tremendous amount of anxiety among officers,” Russi said. “It’s incredibly serious. It can impact a person’s career or even end it.”
The New York Times, Room for Debate, April 22, 2011 by Holly Doremus
http://nyti.ms/gJUwh2
The great virtue of the Endangered Species Act is that it fights the human tendency to ignore problems indefinitely. It doesn’t force us to save endangered species, but it forces us to notice their plight. It’s a vital attention-getting device, and we need to be sure it continues to serve that purpose.
Daily Journal, April 21, 2011 by David Sklansky
http://bit.ly/erOxvN (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)
I’ve watched him mediate faculty conflicts as associate dean and assess personnel cases objectively and without ideological favoritism. I’ve never seen him to be anything but thoughtful, evenhanded, and painstakingly fair. That’s not just my impression. It’s the widely shared view of those who have been fortunate enough to have Liu as a colleague or as a teacher. We know he would be an exemplary — and fair-minded — judge.
Reuters Legal, April 21, 2011 by Jeff Roberts and Greg McCune
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/21/us-wine-mommy-idUSTRE73K58B20110421
Trademark conflicts between winemakers are relatively common, said Richard Mendelson, a California vintner who teaches a course on wine law…. “For a wine coming out to market, it’s hard to find a name that’s not in use,” he said.
Los Angeles Times, April 21, 2011 by Jessica Guynn
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-winklevoss-lawsuit-20110421,0,6720470.story
The Winklevosses gave up all claims—even the ones they didn’t know about—when they entered into the agreement, said UC Berkeley law professor Robert Bartlett, citing the 9th Circuit opinion. “It sounds very much like a Hail Mary,” Bartlett said.
-Los Angeles Times, April 20, 2011 by Maura Dolan
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0420-judge-walker-20110420,0,2466137.story
The federal judge who presided over the Proposition 8 trial is under fire from Christian conservatives for showing a three-minute videotape of the trial on the lecture circuit…. “The basic point of the presentations is that videos or films of actual trials are more interesting, informative, compelling and, of course, realistic than reenactments or fictionalized accounts,” wrote Walker.
-San Jose Mercury News, April 25, 2011 by Howard Mintz
http://www.mercurynews.com/samesexmarriage/ci_17927447?nclick_check=1
In recent court papers, Prop. 8 lawyers also targeted Walker for showing a video clip of the trial at a lecture in Arizona in February, asking a federal appeals court to order him to return the video because it was supposed to remain under seal.