San Francisco Daily Journal, May 15, by Gabe Friedman
http://www.dailyjournal.com
Sometimes, he said, a person’s value to the company outweighs the risks of fallout from a potential SEC investigation. He noted that in other instances, officers can continue at a company because they own large shares of stock…. “I see two possible explanations for them staying on,” Fried said about Dull and Samueli. “One is that their technical skills are needed, the other is that they’re powerful.”
San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, by Deborah Gage
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/15/BUJT10MD33.DTL&type=printable
“Businesses are allowed to sell information unless consumers object,” said Chris Hoofnagle, the [Samuelson] clinic’s associate director and a co-author of the report. “There’s a (significant) gap between people’s understanding of the rules and actual marketplace practices.”
East Bay Express, May 14, by Robert Gammon
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/PrintFriendly?oid=727134
“Assuming one believes as I do that Professor Yoo offered bad ideas and even worse advice during his government service, that judgment alone does not warrant dismissal or even a potentially chilling inquiry.”
KTVU Evening News, May 14, by Amber Lee
http://www.ktvu.com/video/16269552/index.html
“I think other states where there is litigation taking place over this issue will take note of what California has done.”
Contra Costa Times, May 14, by Mike Taugher
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nationandworld/ci_9261474
“The potential implications are limitless in terms of federal projects,” said Richard Frank.
Esquire, May 13, by John H. Richardson
http://www.esquire.com/features/john-yoo-0608
“Torture violates the very premise of the legal system itself, that there is something irreducible and inviolable about every person,” says Yoo’s fellow Berkeley law professor Robert H. Cole. “You can’t write a memo about it the way you would write about snowmobiling in Yosemite.”
Esquire, May 13, by John H. Richardson
http://www.esquire.com/features/john-yoo-0608
But those harsh interrogation techniques migrated straight to Iraq. What about that? “That was definitely not permitted under the decision-making level I was at,” Yoo says. “It was clearly not. The Geneva Conventions fully applied in Iraq…. In World War II, we interned people, tens of thousands of citizens. We tried citizens who were enemy spies under military commissions which had no procedures at all…. We dropped a nuclear weapon on Japan. Waterboarding we think is torture, but it happened to three people. The scale of magnitude is different.”
San Francisco Daily Journal, May 12, by Lawrence Hurley
http://www.dailyjournal.com
Congressional action couldn’t do any harm, Talley suggested. “Shining a light on the practice will act as a deterrent,” he said. Why prosecutors didn’t act sooner in pursuing Milberg Weiss is another key question. “That’s where we want to be spending a lot of our time,” Talley said. “Why wasn’t the Justice Department able to uncover this evidence for such a long period of time?”
National Law Journal, May 12, by Elisabeth Semel
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202421171423
“Politicians like Schwarzenegger have grabbed hold of Baze, proclaimed that it has ended challenges to lethal injection and hope to ride it through a wave of soon-to-be-scheduled executions. Whether they are successful depends on whether lower courts heed, or ignore, the complexities of the court’s seven opinions.”
San Francisco Daily Journal, May 8, by Linda Rapattoni
http://www.dailyjournal.com
“Whatever the bar calls it, $50 over five years is a significant increase, and the bar hasn’t shown any need for it,” he said. “As usual, the bar seems driven primarily by a desire to squeeze more money from its members.”