KTVU-TV, May 5, 2010 by Tori Campbell
http://www.ktvu.com/news/23469913/detail.html
“It may be an issue of trying not to live beyond your means, there may also be an issue of not understanding,” said Alan Auerbach…. “It may be in this case the products that were being sold and the people who were purchasing it were less sophisticated than the people who were selling them.”
-UC Berkeley News, May 4, 2010 by Cathy Cockrell
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/05/04_krisberg.shtml
We can’t simply arrest our way out of community challenges such as gangs, violent crime, or drug addiction. We need a much more comprehensive approach. Nowadays people are starting to think about a public-health response—treating these issues and behaviors just like we do AIDS or TB or a broad range of contagious diseases. The popular singer Sting is launching a national campaign to call off the war on drugs. That’s what we need, for prominent people to step up and say the military-style approach hasn’t worked.
-Contra Costa Times, May 14, 2010 by Federal Glover
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_15071061?IADID&nclick_check=1
What does it take to get off the criminal merry-go-round? “The research shows that a big factor is employment—to come out and have some financial stability,” said Barry Krisberg…. “Another crucial factor is family connections,” he continued in the Internet interview. Those inmates who stay connected to family members do substantially better upon release. “A third is transitional housing.”
San Francisco Chronicle, May 4, 2010 by Jaxon Van Derbeken
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/04/MNJ71CTL6A.DTL
Clifford Gardner, an adjunct faculty member of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall law school who specializes in appeals, said courts have been receptive to overturning convictions under a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision involving disclosure of witnesses’ pasts, Brady vs. Maryland. “If the witness is important and the evidence impeaches the witness,” Gardner said, “Brady usually is going to require reversal.”
Nature.com, The Great Beyond Blog, May 3, 2010 by Alla Katsnelson
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/05/stem_cell_patent_battle_contin_1.html
The decision may have limited practical implications, says Ken Taymor…. All three patents expire in 2015, and it’s unlikely that efforts to commercialize stem-cell technologies will bear fruit by then, he notes. “Time will be much more likely to moot the significance of the patent than this decision.”
San Francisco Chronicle, May 3, 2010 by Kevin Fagan
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/03/MN731D621H.DTL
“It’s hard to imagine how the discussion of legalizing marijuana would have even gotten off the ground if not for the state budget crisis,” said Robert MacCoun, a UC Berkeley law professor who specializes in drug policy.
Chicago Tribune, May 2, 2010 by Clarence Page
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-oped-0502-page-20100502,0,557609,full.column
In his 2007 book about the sudden, unexpected nationwide crime drop in the mid-1990s … Franklin E. Zimring, a University of California at Berkeley law professor, found that experts were consistent in their complete failure to forecast that the crime drop was going to take place and how long it would last. Instead, he found “cascades of good news encourage optimistic assessments” about the crime-fighting abilities of government, adding that “crime increases invite observers to conclude that ‘nothing works.’ “
The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 2, 2010 by John Yoo
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/92606454.html
Republicans can use the confirmation process to draw even sharper contrasts on the issues that have sparked popular opposition to Obama. They will have to accept a nominee who supports abortion and racial preferences; they will get no one else from this administration. But they can draw the line at judges who support the massive expansion of the welfare state at home while restricting the government’s power to safeguard the nation from its foreign enemies.
thestar.com, May 2, 2010 by Olivia Ward
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/803156–a-100-year-struggle-for-human-rights
Unlike the Universal Declaration, thrashed out by a high-level committee led by Eleanor Roosevelt—and researched and drafted by Humphrey—Boyd’s plan is a grassroots one, using 21st-century tools to create a public groundswell: a document written by the people and for the people. “We have to think together, write together and decide together,” he says.
-The Washington Post, May 2, 2010 by Rob Stein
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/01/AR2010050103190.html?hpid=topnews
“If I were lying there on the gurney and someone was administering a paralyzing drug … I would want someone there who knew what they were doing,” said Ty Alper, associate director of the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law. “Just like if I was getting surgery—I wouldn’t want a prison guard administering the anesthesia.”
-KTVU, May 4, 2010 by KTVU.com
http://www.ktvu.com/news/23456499/detail.html
“I think it’s possible to conduct lethal injections in a way that is humane. I don’t think that the three drug formula that most states use, that California uses, is likely to lead to safe, humane executions,” said UC Berkeley Death Penalty Clinic Associate Director Ty Alper.
LWN.net, April 30, 2010 by Jonathan Corbet
http://lwn.net/Articles/385600/
According to this survey, 65% of software companies have no interest in software patents; they do not see patents as an important part of doing business. That compares with 82% of non-software companies which said they were working toward the acquisition of patents. It is worth noting that companies with venture capital backing had a higher level of interest in software patents than those without.