Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Sept. 23, 2016
Yahoo will most likely argue that the impact is minimal and that users are still happily using its site, albeit in somewhat declining numbers. But Verizon can claim that this is likely to have a material impact. In other words, this data breach is something that is tailor-made for litigation.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Sept. 23, 2016
Yahoo will most likely argue that the impact is minimal and that users are still happily using its site, albeit in somewhat declining numbers. But Verizon can claim that this is likely to have a material impact. In other words, this data breach is something that is tailor-made for litigation.
Steven Davidoff Solomon quoted by Marketplace, Sept. 20, 2016
Since the financial crisis, said Davidoff Solomon, companies have added other reasons for clawing back money, “failure to supervise, bad faith, negligent in your duties.”
Franklin Zimring quoted by Bakersfield.com, Sept. 20, 2016
As University of California Berkeley law professor Franklin Zimring observes, the determining factor for seeking the death penalty is not homicide rates or demographics, but “Who is the district attorney?” One elected official in each county is effectively the “decider” as to who faces the death penalty.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Sept. 20, 2016
The five biggest companies in the United States by market value are all technology companies — Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft — three of them with headquarters in California. Not one existed in 1965. The tech phenomenon has benefited California more than all other states, a rise that seems to be unabated.
Kim Thuy Seelinger quoted by The Guardian, Sept. 18, 2016
“It went from a case where there was zero sexual violence in the charging recommended by the investigating judges to a verdict that was really heavy with sexual violence,” Seelinger says. “It’s great, it’s astounding, and it’s quite dramatic in terms of international jurisprudence.”
John Yoo interviewed by WSJ Video, Sept. 16, 2016
“If you actually look at what he leaked, he provided our rivals around the world, and our terrorist enemies, with a laundry list of all the different innovations and techniques that our NSA and our intelligence services were using to collect information on their efforts against … foreign terrorist plots. I couldn’t actually think of something more damaging.”
Elisabeth Semel quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 14, 2016
“It’s modeled after the laws in Texas, where we know innocent people have been executed,” said Elisabeth Semel, director of the Death Penalty Clinic at UC Berkeley Law School. Death penalty supporters heatedly dispute that claim, but Semel cited the Texas case of Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004 for killing his three children in a fire that a series of experts, including one hired by the state, have since concluded was most likely accidental.
Ethan Elkind quoted by Richmond Confidential, Sept. 13, 2016
“The fact that it sailed through the city planning commission and the city council, and yet is still hit with a lawsuit under the California Environmental Quality Act, I think really illustrates the challenges for developers trying to build in these urban areas,” Elkind said.
Jeffrey Selbin quoted by Daily Journal (registration required), Sept. 13, 2016
“It’s a very positive development that cities are beginning to recognize that it is costly and inconvenient to enforce laws against homeless people when at the same time they fail to provide adequate shelter to meet their basic needs,” said Jeffrey Selbin.