San Francisco Weekly, March 16, 2011 by Joe Eskenazi
http://digitalissue.sfweekly.com/article/The+Unkindest+Cut/670411/64234/article.html
Adds Jesse Choper of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, “Under the federal Constitution, unless you could show that the purpose of this was to disadvantage Jews generally, and since it’s a neutral law and applies to everyone, it’s not a violation of the free exercise clause.”
The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, March 16, 2011 by Stanley Lubman
http://on.wsj.com/e1bfqO
There is no doubt that China’s product safety issues are serious and ongoing, despite measures taken in recent years. Only last month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced discovery of a plot to fake certification of Chinese grains as organic. Three years ago, adulterated heparin, a blood-thinning drug, was exported to the U.S. in a case that continues to baffle the FDA and fuel anger in Congress.
-San Francisco Chronicle, March 15, 2011 by Chip Johnson
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/14/BAUR1IB04S.DTL
“California used to have a network of youth forestry camps that taught kids to fight fires and how to reclaim pieces of the wilderness; that taught them discipline and self-respect and hard work…. And those are things many of them would like to do instead of sitting around and waiting for the next gang fight,” Krisberg added.
-New American Media, EthnoBlog, March 15, 2011 by Rachel Pfeffer
http://bit.ly/i93nma
“Once in the criminal justice system, African American girls are treated with brutality, so much emotional and sexual abuse. We are violating African American girls’ human rights everyday in all 58 counties of California. Where are the lawsuits? Where is the accountability?”
-Beyond Chron, March 14, 2011 by Paul Hogarth
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=8982
Onek spoke about his background at Walden House and Legal Services for Children, his work on the SF Police Commission and as Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. “For tough issues, let’s bring everyone around the table to get programmatic, common-sense reforms,” said Onek, as he described his work to help people out of prison get jobs.
-SF Weekly, The Snitch, March 14, 2011 by Matt Smith
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/03/george_gascon_david_onek.php
Onek added he would reverse a long-standing District Attorney’s office policy of disregarding the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance, which requires local officials to respond forthrightly to public records requests. “The default is always to be as transparent as you possibly can be, because that’s how you build trust with the community, and trust with the community is what makes us safer,” said Onek.
KGO-TV, March 14, 2011 Host Mark Matthews
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/national_world&id=8013372
Farber says the nuclear engineers are on the defensive because they know what is happening in Japan could jolt efforts to revive U.S. nuclear power industry. “Proceedings are going to take longer and they’re going to require more safeguards, and all of that adds up to more cost,” Farber says.
-California Watch, March 14, 2011 by Louis Freedberg
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/browns-plan-shut-down-youth-prisons-derailed-9158
“Our county juvenile justice system is akin to the Wild West,” said Barry Krisberg, director of the Earl Warren Institute at the UC Berkeley Law School. “Here there are no real standards, and as a result, practices can be good in some places and horrible in other places.”
-KALW News, The Informant, March 14, 2011 by Rina Palta
http://informant.kalwnews.org/2011/03/the-trouble-with-county-juvenile-halls/
Sending more kids to a place like Los Angeles, Krisberg has said, would be unconscionable–worse than the state system, which Krisberg says, has its own (lesser) problems. The counter-argument has been that LA and other troubled counties simply will not change until forced to, and that shutting the DJJ could be a catalyst for change.
-USA Today, March 15, 2011 by Martha Moore
http://usat.ly/fz1mSe
“I’ve seen too many kids die because the state wasn’t appropriately regulating what was going on at the local level,” says Barry Krisberg, a Berkeley law professor and juvenile justice expert.
Daily Journal, March 10, 2011 by Laura Ernde
http://bit.ly/8T4Z6t (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)
Rosenbaum said the current crop of law students began the project as a way to support the protest movement on campus but got mired in a protracted disciplinary process. “Like any good lawyers, they learned to work within that process to advocate for their clients,” he said.
The Associated Press, March 10, 2011 by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
http://bit.ly/hE26cK
The federal government will either have to look overseas for a source or switch to an alternative like pentobarbital following administrative hearings, said Ty Alper…. “I don’t think there’s likely to be any federal executions any time soon,” Alper said.
KQED-FM, March 9, 2011 Host Cy Musiker
http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201103091730
When you ask people the theoretical big question, do you favor the death penalty, you get, I think, morally grounded answers. When you ask people the question that jurors really have to grapple with, then you find that the country is not just evenly divided, but actually slightly favors the punishment of life without possibility of parole.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 9, 2011 by Mary Ann Mason
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Pyramid-Problem/126614/
Put simply: There are far fewer women than men at the top of the academic hierarchy; those women are paid somewhat less than men, and they are much less likely then men to have had children. At the bottom of the academic hierarchy—in the adjunct and part-time positions—there are far more women than men, and they are disproportionately women with children. Women in adjunct jobs have children at the same rate as men but receive the lowest wages in academe.