San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2010 by John Diaz
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/21/IN5T1C11R6.DTL&type=printable
“I think he has wonderful values, but at the end of the day, he’s not ideological,” said Christopher Edley, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. “He’s pragmatic, and he understands the difference between law and politics. He understands that law is not just politics by another name.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Wired Campus, March 19, 2010 by Marc Perry
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Facebook-Privacy-Blunder-Is/21933/
“I’m particularly interested in supporting groups with a strong record on consumer-privacy issues, and those who need resources to create usable privacy-enhancing technologies,” he said in an e-mail message.
Yahoo Finance, Tech Ticker, March 19, 2010 Host Henry Blodget
http://bit.ly/dsd9UF
This is absolutely comprehensive and crucial healthcare reform. In the absence of doing anything, our healthcare costs will go out of control. What the healthcare reform bill will do is not to absolutely decrease costs, but to bring down the rate of increase.
Contra Costa Times, March 19, 2010 by Mike Taugher
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14712353
“It could be the launching point for something very significant, or, depending on how it works out, it could be much ado about nothing,” said Richard Frank, executive director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley’s School of Law.
The Daily Online Examiner, Media Post blog, March 17, 2010 by Wendy Davis
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.printFriendly&art_aid=124487
Hoofnagle raised an additional problem with privacy policies: He says some companies that allow consumers to “opt out” continue to collect data on consumers, but stop sending them targeted ads. That type of choice, he says, in which consumers are tracked yet don’t receive whatever benefit comes from the tracking, “is completely illusory.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 17, 2010 by Mary Ann Mason
http://chronicle.com/article/Women-Tenurethe-Law/64646/
Since the 90s, a plaintiff has had to prove not only that the tenure judgment against her was untrue, but also that the real reason for the denial was sex discrimination. If discrimination can’t be proved, even if the department is found to be intentionally lying about substandard work, other reasons for the denial, such as a faculty member’s lack of collegiality, can be upheld.
American Public Media, Future Tense, March 16, 2010 Host Jon Gordon
http://bit.ly/aKpAVb
Smart meters draw information about energy usage within a home thousands of times a month as opposed to one time.… You can tell when people get up, you can tell when they go to bed. You can tell when they’re cooking; you can tell when they’re using certain medical devices. You can tell when they’re home or when they’re away.… The risk is really in how the information might be used and how we might lose control of it.
Student Lawyer, March 2010 by Michael Serota
http://www.abanet.org/lsd/studentlawyer/ (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
Poor individual experiences with lawyers, and the media’s tendency to portray the legal profession simplistically and negatively, will not disappear in the near future…. But through educating individuals about the complexities and competing interests involved in our legal system, I believe that the societal tone might slowly shift.
California Lawyer, March 2010 by Nancy K. D. Lemon
http://www.callawyer.com/ (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
Under California Penal Code section 1203.097, a batterer’s counseling is a term of probation after a conviction or guilty plea, and the probation can be revoked for noncompliance.
Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2010 by Maura Dolan
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-court-pollute16-2010mar16,0,1952414.story
In ruling against the air district, the court said a proper environmental review must now be done, even though the project was completed in 2006. “In all likelihood, mitigation measures will be identified in that report, which can be adopted retroactively,” said Richard Frank, executive director of UC Berkeley’s Center on Law, Energy and the Environment, which represented the plaintiffs.