KQED-Forum with Michael Krasny, Feb. 5
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R802050900
“We’ve learned that George Bush’s legacy to the U.S. is an exploding cigar. We’ve got a lot of things … in the budget that aren’t realistic, and it’s basically becoming a budget of defense spending, entitlements, and tax cuts and there’s very little left to spend on other programs.”
Sacramento Bee, Feb. 6, by Matt Weiser
http://www.sacbee.com/378/story/691079.html
“A number of folks feel, for whatever reason, they are reduced to pursuing litigation as the last available option to vindicate their interests,” said Richard Frank.
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 7, by Peter Fimrite
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/02/07/BAD6UT9IE.DTL&type=printable
Kirk Boyd said the Seadrift Association promised not to interfere with his client’s right to sit or lie on the beach up to within 60 feet of the top of the rock seawall. The agreement was reached Jan. 28. “He did not seek money nor was he paid money,” said Boyd.
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 11, by Molly Selvin
http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-milberg11feb11,0,6389527.story
“What you’re watching is a bit of a transition from a world in which class-action practice did have some disreputable aspects to a different model that’s much more responsible, publicly oriented and closely regulated,” said Stephen Bundy.
KGO-TV, Feb. 15, by Eric Thomas
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/national_world&id=5961493
“It is important to recognize that for certain neighborhoods in Medellin, Pablo Escobar was a policeman, he was the judge, he was the executioner, he was the bank, he was a social service provider,” said human rights attorney Roxanna Altholz…. “Pablo’s rise to power is a story about the weakness of the Colombian government.”
Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 15, by Randy Dotinga
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i23/23a01501.htm
“A lot of this is about trying to separate reality from hype, and find what will actually work and what won’t,” says Jennifer King…. “RFID [radio-frequency identification] isn’t as simple as everybody thinks it is.”
KGO-TV, Feb. 15, by Mark Matthews
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/politics&id=5961290
“If the government feels that it needs to do something that the law does not allow, what they need to do is go to Congress and say, look, we’ve got to change the law,” said Paul Schwartz.
Los Angeles Times, June 25, by John Horn
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/news/mediacoverage/inthenews/June-07.pdf#kay
“I think they have a very strong case…at the very least, you should get an apportionment of the profits…”
San Francisco Chronicle, June 26, by Bob Egelko
Although the ruling is limited to drug-related speech, it shows that the court is no longer “putting a strong thumb on the First Amendment scale (in favor of) students.”
First Amendment Center Online, June 26, by Tony Mauro
The two new conservatives want to be modest, “at least in the First Amendment realm.”
KTVU-TV, June 26, Reporter Randy Shandobil
To view the report, go to: http://www.ktvu.com/video/13569014/index.html
Time, June 28, by Justin Fox
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/news/mediacoverage/inthenews/June-07.pdf#auerbach
“It seems like a reasonable argument… I don’t think there are many people in the tax-policy community who believe that it isn’t.”