Daniel Farber co-writes for Miami Herald, Dec. 4, 2016
In short, the Octopus in the Parking Garage is a wake-up call about the need to start confronting the reality of climate change. This call is nonpartisan. After all, Trump’s famous retreat, Mar-a-Lago, is on the Florida coast, too.
Ethan Elkind hosts KALW-FM, City Visions, Dec. 4, 2016
“A few weeks after the election, president-elect Trump outlined a tentative agenda for the start of his administration. And an examination of his plans shows deep conflicts with policies in the Bay Area and in California at large.”
Eric Biber blog post quoted by The New York Times, Dec. 4, 2016
“Our regulatory system creates incentives for land managers to avoid prescribed burns and to suppress all fires as quickly as possible, rather than allowing some wildfires to continue to burn in a managed way to reduce fuel loads. But preventing fire in the Western United States is a fool’s errand that in the long run will produce worse fires.”
Megan McCracken quoted by The Virginian-Pilot, Dec. 1, 2016
If Gray is executed using a compounding version of midazolam in January, no one will know the potency of the drug, she said. “There is a lot of science out there that this is an inappropriate drug to use,” she said. “And in Virginia you have the related issue of the new statute that makes so much information confidential.”
Daniel Farber quoted by The Sacramento Bee, Dec. 1, 2016
Daniel Farber … pointed to a Supreme Court decision, Texas v. White, in 1869 that said Texas “entered into an indissoluble relation” when it became part of the United States. The case related to bonds sold by Texas during the Civil War.
Mark Gergen quoted by The Daily Californian, Dec. 1, 2016
Mark Gergen … said although the board’s administrative findings are not conclusive or binding, they suggest that the board will be able to establish liability in court.
Catherine Crump quoted by The Huffington Post, Nov. 30, 2016
“Courts have a special interest in ensuring that there’s footage available, because they’re the ones responsible for making sure juries reach accurate decisions. … “If they start imposing those types of consequences, police departments will take more seriously the risk that if you don’t turn these things on, then you’re not going to be able to achieve your law enforcement objective.”
Rachel Stern interviewed by China File: Sinica podcast, Nov. 30, 2016
Rachel talks … about her recent research, the Chinese bar exam and its politicization, the ways in which environmental litigation works (or doesn’t), and the anxious uncertainty behind much of the self-censorship in media.
Jill Adams quoted by Rewire, Nov. 30, 2016
Jill Adams … told Rewire that Yocca’s case is a “first-of-its-kind prosecution” that is not supported by the language of the law or by the state constitution. “Ms. Yocca’s situation happened to transpire in the only two-year period in which Tennessee had a law on the books that permitted pregnant people to be prosecuted for negative pregnancy outcomes,” Adams said.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Nov. 29, 2016
Now, big fund managers like BlackRock, with $4 trillion under management, argue that shareholders should be more prominent and have an active role in shaping companies directly.