Mark Gergen quoted by East Bay Times, March 28, 2017
Mark Gergen, a UC Berkeley law professor, reviewed the lease and said it appears there is little the Coliseum authority can do to force the Raiders out early. … “It looks fairly straightforward,” Gergen said. “It looks like Oakland is bound on the option.”
Ethan Elkind quoted by Builder Online, March 28, 2017
“By encouraging housing near jobs, services and transit, along with savings on household energy use, the state can grow its economy and eliminate almost 1.8 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year,” says Ethan Elkind. … “That’s the equivalent of avoiding emissions from 378,100 passenger vehicles annually.”
Ethan Elkind quoted by The Mercury News, March 27, 2017
“Even building in more expensive markets, you’re providing economic benefits for the people who live there. And there are huge quality-of-life benefits. You’re allowing people to live close to jobs and services; somebody is no longer having to commute in from a place like Tracy, for example. They could live in Santa Clara.”
Prasad Krishnamurthy quoted by Mother Jones, March 27, 2017
The MAC lawsuit could hinge its argument on the premise that Ivanka Trump’s agents in the White House broke the law in promoting her products. Krishnamurthy adds that the remedy for the MAC lawsuit is fairly limited, which might mean a judge could interpret “unfair” pretty broadly in this case. Whatever the outcome, the suit is “symbolic in a way,” Krishnamurthy says.
John Yoo quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 2017
“The more a nominee says, the more ammunition she applies to her opponents,” Yoo and Saikrishna Prakash … said Friday in an article for Fox News. They said Democrats “have tried to ‘Bork’ Gorsuch” — referring to the Senate’s rejection in 1987 of Supreme Court candidate Robert Bork, who expressed some of his conservative views at his confirmation hearing — but Gorsuch outsmarted them.
Mark Yudof quoted by US Daily Review, March 26, 2017
“The ACTA analysis of the BDS movement and academic freedom on university campuses is superb. The essay provides trustees and regents with the knowledge they need to understand the challenges to free speech and the troublesome underpinnings of the BDS movement. The authors also illuminate the legal context in which campus speech issues arise.”
Franklin Zimring quoted by Newsday, March 26, 2017
“One thing you can be certain of is the next step the state takes will not be the last,” said UC Berkeley School of Law professor Franklin Zimring about New York. “There will be inevitable pressure to making the system a standard part of a citizen’s profile.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon cited by Berkeley Daily Planet, March 26, 2017
“The economy is much bigger and more complex than it was 200 years ago. A large and diverse economy needs regulation. And while the Trump administration has promised to reduce the bureaucracy as many presidents have before, it is hard to see the modern economy running without some degree of regulation, whether it concerns the security of banks or the safety of food and drugs.”
Melissa Murray quoted by Salon, March 25, 2017
The Golden State, Murray said, should above all be worried by what she and other legal scholars believe is Gorsuch’s most radical and far-reaching judicial prejudice — his extreme skepticism and hostility to the agency authority enshrined in a doctrine called the “Chevron deference,” after the 1984 Supreme Court case Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council.
John Yoo co-writes for Fox News, March 24, 2017
If Democratic Senators had made any progress in attacking Gorsuch’s qualifications, record, or judicial philosophy, they could persuade their Republican colleagues to reject Gorsuch. With 48 Senators in their caucus, Democrats would only need persuade three Republicans to join them. But they cannot.