Daniel Farber Examines ‘Supreme Mistakes’ of U.S. High Court

Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2011 by Carol J. Williams
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/02/local/la-me-scotus-scandals-20110402

The high court’s decision in Dred Scott vs. Sandford in 1857 held that the descendants of slaves weren’t entitled to U.S. citizenship or the protections of the Constitution…. “It was a deeply racist opinion that goes far out of its way to warmly embrace the institution of slavery,” said Daniel Farber, a UC Berkeley law professor who said the decision arguably led to the Civil War and hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Jason Schultz Discusses Zediva and Tenenbaum Copyright Conflicts

-Variety, April 1, 2011 by Ted Johnson
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118034775?refcatid=13&printerfriendly=true

“I think (Zediva) is in a gray zone,” Schultz says. “I think that they have good arguments that what they are doing is legal, and I would bet that they would end up winning in the end, but it is a close call.”

-The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 5, 2011 by Marc Parry
http://bit.ly/gj6QzX

“Even if you don’t like Joel Tenenbaum, even if you think he’s a jerk and deserves to go down in flames, this constitutional-due-process review is important,” says one of the brief’s authors, Jason M. Schultz…. “Because when the court rules, it will not only affect Joel Tenenbaum. It sets the law in place for everyone else who ever gets sued for copyright infringement.”

Samuel Miller Calls Google a Monopoly

CNNMoney, March 31, 2011 by David Goldman
http://money.cnn.com/ (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)

“Having prosecuted the Microsoft case, its seems to me that Google, as a monopoly, is engaging in the same tactics to keep its dominant position as Microsoft was engaging in,” Miller says. “Those are the same tactics that got Microsoft in trouble.”

Stephanie Brauer, Jared Fish, Nell Green Nylen Present Research at Energy Event

The Huffington Post, March 30, 2011 by Dan Worth
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-worth/a-revolution-in-the-stree_b_842825.html

From the other side of the country, a group of Boalt Hall law students from UC Berkeley—Stephanie Brauer, Jared Fish, and Nell Green Nylen—followed with a presentation on their efforts to shine a similar light on the exploration for and extraction of natural gas. The students showed the invisible costs incurred—poisoned wells, dangerous gas explosions, millions of threatened residents from Pennsylvania to New York to California—every time we turn up the thermostat during our cold Boston winters.

David Onek Emerges as District Attorney Contender

Daily Journal, March 30, 2011 by Brandon Ortiz
http://www.dailyjournal.com/ (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)

He said it’s the district attorney’s job to set a vision for the office, and he said his time in academia, on the city’s police commission from 2008 to 2010 and as a criminal justice adviser to Newsom from 2004 to 2006 qualifies him for that. “The job isn’t to be the chief trial attorney of San Francisco,” Onek said. “If that were the case, I wouldn’t be running.”

Paul Schwartz, Christopher Hoofnagle React to Facebook’s Political Strategy

The New York Times, March 28, 2011 by Miguel Helft and Matt Richtel
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/technology/29facebook.html?scp=2&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt

Mr. Schwartz said Facebook seemed to have learned quickly that demands for regulation would pile up, not just from users and advocacy groups, but from competitors. “What they’re doing is pragmatic, and it’s pragmatic to do it sooner rather than later,” he said.

“The practical implication is it’s going to make it more difficult for advocates to convince members of Congress that Facebook presents a privacy problem,” said Chris Jay Hoofnagle…. “One of the big points is to show lawmakers that Facebook is important to their own campaigns,” Mr. Hoofnagle said. “Once that fact is established, Congress will not touch Facebook.”