Nancy Lemon Fears High Court Ruling Will Put Guns in Hands of Batterers

YubaNet.com, July 2, 2010 by California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
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Nancy Lemon … said that abusers will frequently use the presence and threat of firearms as a means of coercing and controlling their victims. “Battered women are not only shot daily by batterers, they are terrorized by their batterers’ possession of guns,” she said. “They are often forced to submit to nonconsensual sex or other abuse because they are afraid the batterer might shoot them or the children. Victims and their children are much less safe in their homes once a firearm is present.”

Jason Schultz Explains Shredding of State Documents

Voice of OC, June 29, 2010 by Tracy Wood
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UC Berkeley law professor Jason Schultz said government lawyers who approve requests to shred are simply doing their job, which is to protect their clients. “City attorneys are hired to protect the liability of cities…. It’s not that it’s ill-willed or bad faith.”

Jesse Choper Analyzes Impact of Supreme Court’s Handgun Ruling

KQED-FM News, June 28, 2010 Host Cy Musiker
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201006281730

“I don’t think there’s any question that a ban on assault weapons could not be challenged. Because, two years ago, when the Court first decided this question of gun control and held that the second amendment gave an individual the right to possession of a gun in the home in order to protect yourself, and your family, and your property; it went out of the way to say that the decision granting the second amendment right to bear arms did not extend to such matters as automatic weapons, weapons outside the home, weapons in public buildings and so forth.”

Christopher Hoofnagle Finds Young Adults Care about Privacy

San Jose Mercury News, June 26, 2010 by Scott Duke Harris
http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_15371548?nclick_check=1

Facebook’s collegiate roots have helped foster the popular view that young adults, having grown up with the Internet, are less worried about personal privacy than their elders. But that notion has been called into question by recent surveys led by Hoofnagle and by the Pew Center for the Internet and Society that found keen interest regardless of age.

Oliver Williamson Offers Valuable Outsourcing Lessons

CIO, June 25, 2010 by Stephanie Overby
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Williamson, professor emeritus of business, economics and law at the University of California-Berkeley, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 for his examination of economic governance. Some outsourcing researchers say his lifelong study of transactional cost economics—the practice of accounting for the total costs of a contract, both obvious and hidden—contains valuable lessons for anyone engaging in outsourcing today.