Bloomberg, October 8, 2009 by Bill Rochelle
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&tkr=MER:US&sid=aQZ6DBooLQAA
Katherine M. Porter said that … “bankruptcy is not effective for people whose mortgage payments are now higher than their incomes.” Porter, who’s a visiting professor this year at the University of California, Berkeley, added that bankruptcy isn’t useful for “outright poverty or income shortage.”
Public Radio International, The World, October 7, 2009 by Katy Clark
http://www.theworld.org/2009/10/07/life-after-gitmo/
We heard of cases in many countries where former detainees were trying to find work but unable to do so. You know, they were away, and a three or four years hole in resume, and if they said they were in US custody, they often didn’t get the jobs they were seeking.
San Francisco Chronicle, October 7, 2009 by Aarti Kohli and Antonia Hernandez
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/07/EDF01A1TI1.DTL
The report supports what advocates in cities nationwide have been saying for a long time: These enforcement programs result in rampant racial profiling by local police.
The Washington Post, October 5, 2009 by Maria Echaveste
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/04/AR2009100401742.html
It may be that Chief Justice John G. Roberts will seek her support on major cases in hopes of reducing the stark division heretofore exhibited on the court. This may result in more moderate decisions than might otherwise have emerged.
San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2009 by Chip Johnson
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/01/BA9H19V673.DTL
“The prosecution may want this out of town because the political implications are that if you get an unpopular verdict, the town may burn,” he said.
-Library Journal, October 1, 2009 by Francine Fialkoff
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6698035.html
The more experts like Peters and Samuelson delve into the settlement, the more they uncover troubling implications. It is clearly not in the best interest of libraries or the various publics they serve.
-The New York Times, October 7, 2009 by Motoko Rich
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/technology/internet/08google.html?_r=2
Pamela Samuelson, an Internet and copyright expert at the University of California, Berkeley, who has led a group of scholars objecting to the settlement, said she also had doubts about the timeline. “It’s hard to believe that so much could change that it would respond to all serious objections,” Ms. Samuelson wrote in an e-mail message.
-The Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2009 by Jessica E. Vascellaro
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574459042709660608.html#printMode
Pamela Samuelson, an intellectual property professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said she invited around two dozen people in February to a private conference to study the settlement in secret. Instead of inviting Google, she invited class-action lawyers and others to provide “tutorials” on various aspects of the 141-page legal document, she said.
-Contra Costa Times, October 1, 2009 by Matt Krupnick
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13464661
For the most part, instructors seem to be accepting that, said law professor Christopher Kutz, chairman of the campus Academic Senate. “We were really impressed by Bain,” said Kutz, who was involved in choosing the company. “They said the right things, and they understand their limits.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, October 5, 2009 by Nanette Asimov
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/05/BAJ41A0EVD.DTL
Law Professor Chris Kutz, who chairs the Faculty Senate, likened the situation to a homeowner who wants to save money on the heating bill and invests in a new furnace. “We think there’s a good chance of achieving savings that dwarf this investment,” Kutz said.
-Capitol Weekly, October 1, 2009 by John Howard
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=yb3tpdhr9clsh5&xid=yb3frcf559pqdb&done=.yb3tpdhr9d5sh5
Nine of the commission’s 14 members, liberals and conservatives, endorsed the proposals. Commission member Christopher Edley Jr., the dean of the Boalt Hall Law School, called it a search for the “pragmatic center.”
-KQED Forum, October 1, 2009 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R910010900
“There is a difficulty, there’s uncertainty that is always going to be associated with any kind of change that’s bold. The only things that you can have total confidence in are the status quo. So, from the start, the issues that the legislature and the public face is, ‘Are we concerned enough with the problems in the current system that we’re willing to swallow a little bit of uncertainty in order to make a change that may have a very positive upside?'”
-Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2009 by George Skelton
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap1-2009oct01,0,4401051.column
The commission toyed with recommending an increase in commercial property taxes, said one liberal member, UC Berkeley law school dean Christopher Edley Jr., but that quickly became “a total nonstarter. I mean, forget first base. It didn’t even get out of the batter’s box.”
The New York Times, October 1, 2009 by Malia Wollan and Jesse McKinley
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/us/02lodi.html?_r=2
Jesse H. Choper, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, said that the 1983 Supreme Court ruling in Marsh v. Chambers found that prayer before public meetings was allowed if the prayers remained nonsectarian. “What we do know is the use of God is not unacceptable,” Professor Choper said.
Governing, October 2009 by Alan Greenblatt
http://www.governing.com/article/what-age-responsibility
Franklin Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor, suggests that it’s easier to block youngsters from obtaining rights than it is to take away rights to which adults have grown accustomed. That’s because states aren’t really denying young people rights, Zimring says. They’re asking them to wait.