Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2009 by Josh Meyer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mosque-seizures13-2009nov13,0,3625317.story
“Whether it is seizing a mosque or seizing a bookstore, it doesn’t mean there is a special 1st Amendment scrutiny,” or protection, Choper said.
Law.com / The Recorder, November 13, 2009 by Zusha Elinson
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202435428489&Intel_Agrees_to_Pay_AMD__Billion_in_Sudden_Settlement&hbxlogin=1
“The business concessions could be more valuable than the money,” said Edlin, who was not involved in the case. “I would judge from the settlement that the parties thought AMD had a very good likelihood of winning the trial. I would say that AMD, from what we know, appears to come out with what they wanted.”
-The New York Times, November 13, 2009 by Ian Urbina
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/us/14ohio.html?_r=4
“The hope is that other states will realize that there is no need to paralyze inmates before executing them,” he said, “and that, in fact, doing so risks a horribly torturous execution.”
-The Associated Press, November 14, 2009 by Julie Carr Smyth
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjqm49b-nlUteJMPUmp_qKOuxu6gD9BUTUPO0
“This is a significant step forward,” said Ty Alper, associate director of the Death Penalty Clinic…. “Paralyzing inmates before executing them — so we can’t tell whether they are suffering — is a barbaric practice, and Ohio should be commended for stopping it.”
-Toledo Blade, November 14, 2009 by Jim Provance
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091114/NEWS24/911140361
“Ohio had said that everything was on the table, and getting rid of the second two drugs is something that lawyers have recommended many times in other cases,” said Ty Alper.
-Delaware Online, November 15, 2009 by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20091115/NEWS01/911150358/Ohio-changes-execution-method
“If tomorrow every death-penalty state got rid of the second two drugs in their protocols, certainly the Eighth Amendment concerns would be significantly alleviated,” said Ty Alper.
The Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2009 by Carl Bialik
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125789565331042445.html#printMode
“The famous statistician George Box once wrote that ‘all models are wrong, but some are useful,’ ” Kevin Quinn, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied changing attitudes of Supreme Court justices, said in an email.”I think that is a useful way to approach what we’re doing.”
St. Petersburg Times, November 11, 2009 by Aaron Sharockman
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/gov-charlie-crists-claim-of-biggest-tax-cut-doesnt-add-up/1050870
“Even if this policy hadn’t been enacted, the future would look different than today,” Gamage said.
BNA Electronic Commerce, November 11, 2009 by Amy E. Bivins
http://www.hunton.com/files/tbl_s10News/FileUpload44/16728/Privacy_Advocates_Urge_FTC_Lawmakers_To_Scrutinize_Data_Sharing_11.09.pdf
“Privacy notices make companies think about what their privacy practices are,” Schwartz said. “Policies also give privacy advocates an opportunity to examine business practices related to consumer information.”…When it comes to data-sharing between online services, transparency gains additional importance, he added.
San Francisco Chronicle, November 10, 2009 by Demian Bulwa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/crime/detail?&entry_id=51377
Elisabeth Semel, who directs the death penalty clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law, added, “In my experience, individuals who want to represent themselves are often lacking the legal skill to do so and have profound emotional problems.”
-Science Progress, November 10, 2009 by Andrew Plemmons Pratt
http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/11/women-and-sciences/
“The leak is almost entirely, or least due primarily to family formation,” said Mason.
-The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 10, 2009 by Audrey Williams June
http://chronicle.com/article/CollegesFederal-Agencies/49101/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
“This is really a wake up call that we’re losing our women scientists,” said Mary Ann Mason, a Chronicle contributor who is an author of the report and a professor and co-director of the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security. “But there are some things that we can do about that right now,” she said.
-The Scientist, November 11, 2009 by Edyta Zielinska
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56144/
Universities have responded to the call for better support of scientists who want to start families with policies such as stopping the tenure clock and offering paid parental leave. However, “there is a huge variation” in how these policies are administered, said Mary Ann Mason…. Often “researchers don’t know what [these policies] are” and how they work. Also, few of these programs are offered to early career scientists, who need them the most, she said.
The Sacramento Bee, November 9, 2009 by Bobbie Stein
http://www.sacbee.com/1190/story/2314027.html
According to the FBI’s new Uniform Crime Report, in 2008 there were more than 1.7 million people arrested and more than 500,000 men and women in jail or prison for drug offenses. You don’t have to be a radical to understand that a smarter approach to drug policy will go a long way toward both easing the prison population and saving money.
The New York Times, November 9, 2009 by John Schwartz
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/business/10patent.html?_r=2
Pamela Samuelson, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, said, “It’s not very often that some obscure issue of patent law can excite so much attention.” Professor Samuelson, who was an author of a brief … said it was time for the court to tap the brakes on the business patents rush.