The Daily Californian, April 20, 2011 by Aaida Samad
http://archive.dailycal.org/article/112872/graduate_student_found_not_responsible_for_charges
“It’s clear that when students are given some procedural rights, they’re actually able to prove their innocence in these cases,” said Desai’s adviser Thomas Frampton, a UC Berkeley School of Law student and member of the Campus Rights Project, a group that has been advising students facing misconduct charges.
The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, April 19, 2011 by Stanley Lubman
http://on.wsj.com/l5qk2m
A recent WTO decision is supposed to result in the removal of several barriers to the importation of American movies that have collectively been a sore point in Hollywood for years. It’s been exactly a month since a deadline imposed by the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body passed and China has yet to make any substantive move to comply with the trade body’s decision.
The New York Times, April 19, 2011 by Ty Alper
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/opinion/lweb20lethal.html
Paralyzing prisoners before injecting them with the potassium chloride that kills them serves one purpose: to make the executions appear peaceful and humane. Are they in fact? It’s almost impossible to know. That’s why the veterinary community rejects the practice of paralyzing animals during euthanasia. Our standards for human executions are not as high.
KTVU-TV, April 18, 2011 Reporter Tom Vacar
http://www.ktvu.com/video/27591671/index.html
But with this mass gathering of information, is law enforcement overreaching, given that license plates are mandatory and photographed in public? “I think you’ve got an uphill battle in holding this unconstitutional…. There’s no expectation of privacy.”
Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2011 by Don Lee
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-econ-deficit-20110417,0,642624.story
“I’m sympathetic to the president’s wish to focus on tax increases on the very high incomes, but that’s not going to be enough,” said Alan Auerbach…. “We’ll eventually need more revenue than those tax increases will generate to solve the long-run budget problems we face.”
KQED-FM, April 15, 2011 by Scott Shafer
http://bit.ly/g3HocT
Walker wrote that he decided to use the actual clip because he thought it would be “permissable and appropriate.” He acknowledges that he used the same clip at Federal Bar Association meeting in Riverside last month and in a law class he’s teaching at UC Berkeley…. “If the court believes that my possession of the videos as part of my judicial papers is inappropriate, I shall, of course, abide by that or any other directive the court makes,” Walker writes.
USA Today, April 15, 2011 by Calum MacLeod
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-04-14-china-human-rights-legal-.htm?csp=34news
“Despite the current repression, it is necessary to take a long view as well. Legal exchanges offer U.S. and European organizations some hope of expanding citizens’ rights in China,” says Stanley Lubman, an expert on Chinese law at the University of California’s Berkeley Law School.
jWeekly, April 14, 2011 by Dan Pine
http://bit.ly/g7hE1t
She visited the Bay Area last week to give the keynote speech at the opening of U.C. Berkeley Law’s newly launched Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society. She was impressed with the institute, saying it will “provide a valuable resource to Americans interested in the study of Israeli and Jewish law, and will be a podium in which legal developments in Israeli law can be heard internationally.”
KQED-FM, April 13, 2011 Host Stephanie Martin
http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201104131730/a
“The obstruction charge here referred basically to the same conduct as the perjury charge, but it also included evasive and misleading testimony. One possibility would be that the jury felt the prosecution had not proved that Bonds lied or committed perjury beyond a reasonable doubt. But that he had acted in some sort of evasive or misleading way that wasn’t quite lying.”
The Wall Street Journal, Digits blog, April 12, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/04/12/should-companies-self-regulate-on-privacy/tab/print/
Whether companies must honor opt-outs handled by third parties like Catalog Choice is a question that still hasn’t been determined, said Chris Hoofnagle of the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Hoofnagle, who has been advising Catalog Choice on legal matters, says that the organization is legally an “agent” for people requesting opt-outs.