Los Angeles Times, January 22, 2011 by Carol J. Williams
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-execution-drug-20110122,0,5035954.story
In California, the legal guidance for carrying out executions was amended in August after three years of debate and deliberation. The state’s new protocols specify use of sodium thiopental as the first drug in the three-injection sequence, and any substitution would require the state to again revise the protocols, said Elisabeth Semel.
-California Watch, January 20, 2011 by David Gross and Michael Montgomery
http://bit.ly/emiafk
Barry Krisberg … said the state still needs a small facility for older, gang-entrenched youth….”It is a difficult population, in terms of violence and serious sex offenses,” he said. “It is my view that the counties are not equipped to adequately provide for these youth. One consequence is we will push more of them into the (adult) prison system.”
-The New York Times, The Bay Citizen, January 22, 2011 by Trey Bundy
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/us/23bcjuvenile.html
Barry Krisberg … said that keeping young offenders at the county level might offer them fewer rehabilitation options. “I would bet that those kids would end up in juvenile hall, in isolation, getting fewer services,” Mr. Krisberg said. “I don’t think we can shut down the entire state system.”
-KALW News, January 27, 2011 by Rina Palta
http://bit.ly/gkPwqH
Krisberg says some county facilities are known for being worse than the states’. “So we’re taking them out of not very great facilities, kind of passable programming, and we’re putting them into hell.”
-KQED-FM, January 27, 2011 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201101270900
“These are some of the most troubled youths in terms of mental health challenges. My concern is that the counties really are not geared up to manage these youths, and they’ll probably find their way to the deepest end of the detention centers where programming education is going to be far more limited than what they’re getting now.”
Contra Costa Times, January 19, 2011 by Matt Krupnick
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_17139605?nclick_check=1
Public officials should be responsible when spending tax dollars, he said, regardless of bidding requirements.
It really starts as a matter of local governance,” he said. Public agencies “are responsible to the voters.”
The Daily Californian, January 19, 2011 by Alisha Azevedo
http://www.dailycal.org/article/111546/justice_sotomayor_to_judge_competition_at_uc_berke
Sotomayor agreed to judge the competition because of the law school’s prestige, Gluss said. “Our students win or place in national competitions each year, besting their peers in other top-tier law schools,” she said. “The chance to parry with such bright students is a compelling one.”
“She’s a very exacting jurist—she does her homework and knows the facts and ins and outs of the cases. Students will find that she’s incredibly well-prepared and that they will need to bring their A-game to the competition,” Murray said.
KQED-FM, January 18, 2011 Host Scott Shafer
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201101180900
“One of the really canonical features in political science about who votes and who doesn’t vote is what their socioeconomic background is like. The more well off and the more highly educated people are, the more likely they are to vote. But if you try to use that lens to predict which Asians are going to vote and which aren’t going to vote, you’re not likely to enjoy a great deal of success.”
Los Angeles Times, January 16, 2011 by Cathleen Decker
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/16/local/la-me-0116-theweek-20110116
“The truth is that violent crime is down in the United States and so, in addition to the political barriers on gun control, there isn’t a tremendous amount of personal crime anxiety,” said Franklin Zimring.
California Bar Journal, January 2011 by Diane Curtis
http://calbarjournal.com/January2011/TopHeadlines/TH2.aspx
Halpern says one of the skills that meditation can provide lawyers — “which I view as a crucial professional skill” — is the capacity to listen. “So many lawyers, by training, are always thinking ahead, specifically thinking about what they’re going to say. As lawyers we’re trained to do that, questioning a witness, interviewing a client. I think that’s a very important skill—thinking ahead—but it’s also an important skill to listen fully, be present.”
Bloomberg Radio, January 15, 2011 Host June Grasso
http://www.bloomberg.com/radio/ (Inactive link. Go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)
“If the Winklevosses win, then they get none of the settlement consideration…. If they lose, they will get to keep the consideration in the settlement agreement, which based on the most recent evaluation of Facebook, would actually be worth about 150 million dollars plus, of course, the 20 million dollars in cash.”
San Jose Mercury News, January 13, 2011 by Karen de Sá
http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county/ci_17091138?nclick_check=1
“The cost of sending people to state prison for a week or a month is huge,” said Jeanne Woodford, former warden of San Quentin State Prison and now a senior fellow at UC Berkeley. At state reception centers, she noted, many of the same medical tests, psychological screening and caseworker reports done in the county jails are repeated.
The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, January 13, 2011 by Stanley Lubman
http://on.wsj.com/etaEqE
Although China formally rejects the American concept of controlling government by checks and balances, the enforcement of administrative laws to protect citizen rights raises the possibility of “a distinctly Chinese version of constitutionalism.”