Robert Berring quoted by The Daily Californian, Nov. 2, 2016
“The strange thing was that they chose to go after Berkeley Patients Group, a dispensary which really has been really aboveboard and tried to follow Berkeley’s rules,” Berring said.
Blockbuster deals in a race to stay ahead of the competition
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Nov. 1, 2016
In a sluggish economy with few obvious opportunities, a big merger has become the only way to acquire growth or a new product or new technology and ensure that the chief executive holds on to power.
Clarence Thomas celebrates 25 years on the Supreme Court
John Yoo quoted by The Daily Caller, Oct. 31, 2016
Yoo … points out that Thomas’s work has already secured a place in the American legal canon. “If you read the casebooks for example, a lot of his separate writings are excerpted in the teaching materials in constitutional law,” he said.
Election crucial to US Supreme Court’s makeup, future
Jesse Choper quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 29, 2016
“Maybe I’m a Pollyanna, but I believe the Republicans would not stop the confirmation of a reasonable sort” of Clinton nominee, he said. Choper said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would be reminded of his rationale for blocking Garland — that the choice should be left up to the voters who elected the next president.
Why university-based startups are a smart investment
Alexa Koenig writes for Medium, Oct. 26, 2016
A university-based center can work with faculty and students to incubate and produce high-quality, low-cost, cutting-edge research and advocacy.
Contra Costa Co. suspends fees on families with kids in juvenile hall
Stephanie Campos-Bui quoted by CBS SF Bay Area, Oct. 26, 2016
“We have yet to find a county whose practices are both lawful and profitable, which is why counties that have examined the issue have done away with the fees altogether,” said Stephanie Campos-Bui.
Contra Costa County halts fees for parents of juvenile offenders
Jeffrey Selbin quoted by NBC Bay Area, Oct. 26, 2016
“These fees harm kids and families and they undermine the rehabilitative purpose of the juvenile justice system,” said Jeff Selbin, a law professor at UC Berkeley who studied the effects. The poverty law clinic at the university published an exhaustive analysis of the fees earlier this year.
Provincial feuding over Measure M will make traffic and mobility worse for everyone
Ethan Elkind writes for Los Angeles Times, Oct. 25, 2016
L.A.’s success as a metropolis lives and dies by its ability to function as a whole, rather than a collection of isolated, feuding cities.
A progressive’s answer to Trumpism
Ian Haney López quoted by The Washington Post, Oct. 25, 2016
As University of California at Berkeley law professor Ian Haney-López recently wrote in the Nation … “We must have a unified message for whites as well as people of color: Fearful of one another, we too easily hand over power to moneyed interests, but working together, we can rebuild the American Dream.”
City Visions: A conversation about high-speed rail in California
Ethan Elkind hosts for KALW-FM, Oct. 23, 2016
“Will high-speed rail transform California, improving our environment by taking cars off the road, stimulating our economy by enhancing travel between our cities? Or will we find ourselves burdened by debt, for a system that is underutilized and quickly becoming out of date?”