Christopher Hoofnagle quoted by The Mercury News, Aug. 14, 2017
“We have very strong protections for our speech and a right to assembly against our government, but virtually no protection against private retaliation for free speech,” he said. … “This is all about private censorship and shame,” Hoofnagle said. “If you’re willing to accept it as OK, then think about what this would mean if this were done to you.”
Angela Onwuachi-Willig cited by Ebony, Aug. 11, 2017
“What’s troubling is that banning these hairstyles essentially tells Black girls and women … that the hair they were born with is faddish, extreme, distracting, and unprofessional. It sets up a standard that appears neutral in its language but is actually racially discriminatory.”
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Fox Business, Aug. 10, 2017
Lower court rulings say the government can’t deny credentials to journalists because their reporting is critical, he said. “These are government officials communicating about government business. They can’t pick or choose based on who they like or who likes them,” Chemerinsky said.
Robert Bartlett quoted by Wired, Aug. 10, 2017
“Benchmark needs to look uninformed to win on the fraudulent inducement claim,” Bartlett says. “But it makes it look this was a board that let management have free reign.”
Robert Bartlett quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 10, 2017
Robert Bartlett …said the lawsuit “paints a picture of a company that Travis basically was ruling without a lot of direct oversight” by the board. “It’s an indictment of the governance of Uber.”
Victoria Plaut quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 8, 2017
Victoria Plaut … suggested that companies can enhance their internal message boards with more-structured environments where difficult conversations can take place. … “Google could use this as a learning opportunity-both to reflect on how the climate is experienced by all employees and to pinpoint sources of resistance to its initiatives,” said Ms. Plaut.
Elaine Rushing quoted by The Mercury News, Aug. 8, 2017
California employers can fire workers at will, as long as the termination isn’t based on discrimination by race, sex or age, said UC Berkeley Law lecturer Elaine Rushing. “He doesn’t fit into any of those categories,” Rushing said. “He will have a very steep uphill battle in my view of winning a wrongful termination case.”
Franklin Zimring cited by The American Interest, Aug. 7, 2017
According to Berkeley Law Professor Franklin Zimring, author of When Police Kill, African Americans are 2.3 times more likely to be killed by police than are whites. Worse yet, American police kill much more often than police in other countries because of the riskiness of American policing: “The threat of lethal attack is a palpable part of being a police officer in the United States,” Zimring writes.
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by The Sacramento Bee, Aug. 5, 2017
But as UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes on these pages, Trump also is toying with “the rights and dignity of millions of Americans.” Our guess is that Trump doesn’t care.
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by The New York Times, Aug. 3, 2017
“Sessions as attorney general has been everything conservatives could have dreamed of and liberals could have feared,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley.