Politico.com, June 3, 2009 by Jacqueline Klingebiel and Ariel Alexovich
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23243.html
“We could not ask for a better leader than Caroline Fredrickson to take ACS into its next stage of development and growth,” said Goodwin Liu, chairman of the society’s board of directors and associate dean and professor at the University of California, Berkeley Law School.
San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2009 by Ian Haney Lopez
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/01/EDV017URB2.DTL
Sotomayor posited that racial identity matters in how judges make decisions. She said: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life….” Does this sound like a racist? No. It sounds like someone wrestling frankly with the heterogeneous identities we previously used to erect inequalities, and on which America now seeks to build its strength.
The Sacramento Bee, June 2, 2009 by Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News
http://www.sacbee.com/inauguration/v-print/story/1912999.html
Speaking for many Democrats, Jacob Hacker, a political science professor at the University of California-Berkeley, said a public plan would provide “a source of coverage that is much more stable and predictable than private plans.”
The New York Times, June 2, 2009 by Miguel Helft
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/google-is-top-tracker-of-surfers-in-study/
“Consumers were complaining to the F.T.C. about a lack of control over personal information,” Mr. Hoofnagle said. “That is very different from how the F.T.C. has framed the issue,” he said, noting that under the Bush administration, the agency frowned on privacy practices only if they caused harm to consumers. Mr. Hoofnagle added: “We have a new F.T.C. now. They may scrap the ‘harm’ approach and look at some other method for balancing rights and responsibilities.”
The New York Times, June 1, 2009 by Solomon Moore
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/us/02fbi.html
“Serious criminal behavior is so intensely concentrated in pockets of the nation that the kids who are committing crimes are usually not part of the factory layoff, they’re not affected by the credit freeze or failing mortgages,” said Frank Zimring, a criminologist at University of California, Berkeley.
San Francisco Chronicle, May 31, 2009 by David L. Kirp
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/31/ING317S58S.DTL&type=printable
All the research tells the same story: Expectations are crucial. Advise minority students with comparatively weak paper records that they have a decent shot at succeeding, enroll them in highly demanding schools, and they’re more likely to thrive than if they’re fed an intellectual diet of pabulum.
San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 2009 by Carolyn Lochhead
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/29/MNGF17SNET.DTL&type=printable
“She has sterling credentials,” Murray said. “She’s incredibly smart, she’s incredibly fair. I think she takes every case on its merits. She’s very rigorous in researching cases and she applies the law. The idea of her as an activist is absolutely ludicrous. In my time with her, I’ve never seen anyone more sensitive to what the law in our circuit actually required.”
Jesse Choper, a UC Berkeley constitutional law professor, said Sotomayor might take back her Berkeley words if she could, saying they were inelegantly put. “But having said that,” Choper said, “every Supreme Court justice, every human being, is the product of their own experience, their own education, their own background, their own values.”
Daily Journal, May 29, 2009 by Lawrence Hurley
http://www.dailyjournal.com/law/index.cfm (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
Taken with the other cases she either wrote or voted on, Frank added, the decision indicates she is “a moderate judge who takes each of these environmental cases as she finds them.”
Wired, May 27, 2009 by Kim Zetter
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/lifelock/
Chris Hoofnagle, director of information privacy programs for the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, says the ruling is a disappointment. “The idea that we could some day see a market where we pay $10 a month to a company to opt us out of junk mail, to monitor our credit, to do all sorts of privacy-enhancing steps that we don’t have time to take … for that market to emerge, LifeLock’s business model and similar ones have to be legal,” Hoofnagle says.
CNET News.com, May 27, 2009 by Erica Ogg
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/business/0,39044229,62054386,00.htm?scid=rss_z_nw
“The bankruptcy court may say this company (owes) Apple US$10 million. But that doesn’t mean Apple will get that money,” said Fried. “They’ll be treated like an unsecured creditor.… They (probably) hope to have Apple’s suit quickly resolved, have the dollar amount figured out, and pay Apple only a fraction of the dollar amount determined by court.”