Malcolm Feeley and Franklin Zimring quoted by KPCC-FM, Jan. 6, 2017
“It’s hard to interpret” what’s happening during upticks like these, said UC Berkeley Law Professor Malcolm Feeley. “A statistician would say they are random noise.”
So why is some crime on the rise in Los Angeles? “I know it’s a fair question,” Zimring said, “And the answer is we don’t know.”
Megan McCracken quoted by CBS Miami, Jan. 5, 2017
“What we see now is a mistake and an accident from an execution in Oklahoma codified as the new execution procedure in Florida,” McCracken said. “The novel aspect of the drug formula and the experimental nature of the protocol is extraordinarily concerning.”
Eric Biber quoted by Associated Press, Jan. 5, 2017
“My guess about what they are trying to do is to get the 5th Circuit to reject the case and then hope for the Supreme Court to review the case,” said Berkeley law professor Eric Biber. … “If that happens, assuming Trump appoints a conservative like (Antonin) Scalia to the Supreme Court, the swing vote is Justice (Anthony) Kennedy.”
David Rosenfeld quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 4, 2017
David Rosenfeld… said that in general, it’s unusual for companies to not comply with the department’s request, and that the employee contact information is not something that members of the public can see under a Freedom of Information Act request. The Department of Labor may need the contact information of employees to talk to them to make sure that the salary information is accurate, he said.
Paul Schwartz quoted by Daily Journal (registration required), Jan. 4, 2017
“I don’t know how we can keep up at this pace,” he said. “For those of us who practice and teach in this field, it’s almost scary.”
Jill Adams quoted by Vice, Jan. 3, 2017
“People always want to know about the physical safety of self-induced abortion, but what about the safety of being arrested, of going to prison, of being deported? If people are truly concerned about safety as related to abortion, they ought to be considering how dangerous it can be for people’s physical and emotional health to be ensnared in the legal system.”
Franklin Zimring quoted by Newsday, Jan. 2, 2017
Prof. Franklin Zimring of University of California, Berkeley School of Law, a noted criminologist, said that criticism of O’Neill and his ties to de Blasio is more in the line of political gossip than an issue of substance. … “No news is good news,” noted Zimring, referring to New York’s low crime levels.
John Yoo co-writes for The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 30, 2016
Mr. Obama taunted his political adversaries that if he didn’t get what he wanted from Congress, he would use his “pen” and “phone.” Those tools also work in reverse.
Catherine Crump interviewed by Bloomberg, Dec. 28, 2016
“We’re not talking about the police incidentally seeing your license plate as you drive by. No one thinks that’s a problem. … What we’re talking about is, should the police be retaining vast databases, storing license plate readers for months or even years—information that can be revealing of where people go—and the vast majority of which pertains to absolutely innocent people.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Dec. 27, 2016
Whether it was the Tesla Motors acquisition of SolarCity, Facebook’s attempt to cement Mark Zuckerberg’s control of the company or the continuing implosion of Theranos, Silicon Valley seemed to gloss over substantive points of governance in the pursuit of founders’ dreams and control.