KGO-TV, Oct. 9, by David Louie
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/business&id=6442008
”The key is what the secretary believes is necessary to restore financial market stability,” said John Hunt, research director of the law and finance program at the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy.
The Miami Herald, Oct. 9, by Frances Robles http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/v-print/story/719236.html
Roxanna M. Altholz, Associate Director International Human Rights Law Clinic … said the U.S. government is not doing all it can to make sure the victims get justice. She represents victims of seven paramilitary chiefs, including bosses Diego Murillo (aka ‘Don Berna’) and Salvatore Mancuso. ”The reality is,” she said, ”that they are striking deals with individuals who are responsible for more murders than [Chilean dictator Augusto] Pinochet.”
San Francisco Daily Journal, Oct. 8, by Lawrence Hurley
http://www.dailyjournal.com/law/index.cfm
Richard M. Frank … countered that the concentration of 9th Circuit cases is simply due to the fact that it hears more environmental cases than other circuits. “That’s an objective fact,” he said…. Frank, for one, is pleased that the court is taking more environmental cases than it has in recent years. “It signals a renewed interest in environmental law,” he said.
San Francisco Daily Journal, Oct. 7, by Richard M. Frank
http://www.dailyjournal.com/law/index.cfm
“The EPIC, Zack’s and CBE decisions signal a reawakening by environmental litigants to the challenges and opportunities presented by the public trust doctrine as a tool of environmental advocacy. Similarly, the thoughtful treatment of public trust principles in each of these decisions underscores the fact that California’s judiciary continues to take the doctrine seriously, and to view public trust principles as a major component of modern environmental law and policy.”
Sacramento Bee, Oct. 6, by Andy Furillo
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1290837.html
“The skies are getting crowded,” UC Berkeley law professor Franklin Zimring said of the air traffic over the criminal justice system. “It’s become a two-sided process, with the left using it as well as the right.”
KNBC-TV, Oct. 3
http://www.knbc.com/news/17611121/detail.html
Liu said courts typically do not favor retroactive application of the law unless it is clearly stated in the law or ballot language. “Nothing in the text of Prop 8, nothing in the voter information guide and nothing in the background of the measure so far indicates that Prop 8 is intended to apply retroactively,” Liu said.
San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 3, by Carolyn Said
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/03/BUFU13AJK4.DTL&type=printable
Aaron Edlin … said the way to “quash the financial firestorm” is to “build a firebreak and prevent bank runs.” Raising depositor insurance to $250,000—a new component of the bailout package—”is a good start, but I would make it unlimited, at a price of course.”
British Medical Journal, Oct. 2, by Stephen Sugarman
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/oct02_2/a1750
“Public health leaders who now distrust industry should accept that public health needs business as an ally. But public health leaders who promote self regulation by business should accept that voluntary cooperation will never achieve enough. Performance based regulation occupies the middle ground—a third way. Let society set legally enforceable goals and then let enterprises loose to accomplish them.”
Berkeleyan, Oct. 1, by Marie Felde
http://berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/10/01_wallstreet.shtml
“I don’t think we can rule out the structure of executive pay as a causal factor on the meltdown. A lot of the pay was based on bonuses based on year-to-year earnings.”
Chicago Sun Times, Sept. 28, by Jeffrey Selbin
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“Lawyers can’t end poverty, but working with clients, community groups, policy-makers and other professionals, we can ameliorate its devastating impact on individuals, neighborhoods and our country.”