The Christian Science Monitor, October 15, 2010 by Daniel B. Wood
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“There is no question … that California can pass a law saying it’s no longer illegal to have, grow, or smoke marijuana,” says Jesse Choper, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law. “But that has absolutely nothing to do with the continued existence of validity in enforcement of the federal statutes.”
The Dallas Morning News, October 15, 2010 by Brendan Case
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The legal tug-of-war between courts in Dallas and London isn’t uncommon if each court has grounds for some jurisdiction over the parties, said Richard Buxbaum…. “Usually this kind of impasse gets resolved when the court that, on the total fact situation, has less claim to hear the merits [and] yields to the other,” he said. “Here, assuming that the club sale is a matter of English law, that would speak in favor of the English court eventually being the one to decide on the substantive claim.”
The Huffington Post, October 14, 2010 by Alex Gronke
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-gronke/forget-white-boys-the-rea_b_761839.html
Even as sentencing guidelines increasingly limit judicial autonomy, prosecutors enjoy tremendous leeway in the deals they make with defendants in return for guilty pleas. “Plea bargaining, by its nature, is done behind the scenes,” said Barry Krisberg, a criminologist at the University of California’s Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. “It’s one of the least understood areas of the criminal justice system.”
The Daily Californian, October 14, 2010 by Aaida Samad
http://www.dailycal.org/article/110769/online_education_moves_forward_despite_concerns
However, Edley asserted Tuesday that while online education is not a substitute for on-campus instruction, it makes high-quality education more accessible and affordable. “The ambitions that I have relate to building something … that would enable us to offer a UC quality of excellence to a population that simply can’t fit in the bricks and mortar campus we have today,” he said at the forum.
National Journal, Tech Daily Dose, October 14, 2010 by Eliza Krigman
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/10/telecom-community-gathers-for.php
Pamela Samuelson, professor at UC Berkeley’s Law School and School of Information, took home the Information Policy prize. “I can’t even program my way out a paper bag,” she joked to the crowd about her lack of technical expertise while thanking everyone for appreciating her work on the legal side of digital issues.
The Daily Beast, October 14, 2010 by Ben Crair
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Ty Alper of the Death Penalty Clinic at Berkeley says, “State and federal laws regarding transfer of drugs from one entity to another are there for a reason. The reason they’re there is to ensure the integrity of the drugs.”
PC World, October 13, 2010 by Mark Sullivan
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“Buzz was a direct reaction to the possible disintermediation of Google by Twitter and Facebook,” says Chris Hoofnagle, director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. “It was Google’s way of keeping people from switching to Facebook or Twitter as their default communication vehicle on the Web.”
The New York Times, October 12, 2010 by Erica Gies
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/business/energy-environment/13iht-rencalifact.html?src=busln
A five-year suspension would leave just five years for companies to comply with 2020 emissions targets. “It would be an economic disaster to push compliance in just five years. It’s a rolling form of uncertainty if you do this,” he said.
The Christian Science Monitor, October 12, 2010 by Daniel B. Wood
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[Choper] says Judge Phillips’s arguments are strong and not dissimilar to the reasoning of US District Court Judge Vaughn Walker in California’s landmark Proposition 8 gay marriage case, which found that “California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians.” Phillips “is saying there is insufficient reason that the government needs to be engaging in this form of discrimination, and that this is a cohort that ought to be given sympathetic treatment by the courts,” says Choper.
Slate, October 8, 2010 by Sasha Abramsky
http://www.slate.com/id/2270328/?from=rss
University of California at Berkeley professor of law Jonathan Simon writes that these men and women in many ways become the human equivalent of underwater homes bought with subprime mortgages—they are “toxic persons” in the way those homes have been defined as “toxic assets,” condemned to failure.