Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, August 16, 2016
Facebook and its elite brethren will do anything to make sure they are not the next Yahoo or Radio Shack, killed by disruption and failure to innovate. This translates into paying obscene sums for technology that might challenge their dominance one day.
Ramiah Brien quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, August 12, 2016
“My experience with federal judges is that they’re very careful about having outside influences affect their decisions,” attorney and UC Berkeley adjunct law professor Ramiah Brien said. “Especially in a case like this, I don’t think the judge would want the appearance that he was influenced by something other than what the attorneys were arguing in that brief.”
Robert Bartlett quoted by BuzzFeed, August 12, 2016
From a legal perspective, a projection about the future is more opinion than fact, said Robert Bartlett. … “It smells a little fishy,” he said. “If the internal set of books was what they held out to themselves as the true and likely scenario, then that would seem to be circumstantial evidence that the rosy projections were not honestly held projections.”
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted by Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2016
“What Comcast is saying is somewhat akin to the water authority offering a discount for less purified water,” Hoofnagle said. “It is time to conceive of broadband as a utility, one that needs to satisfy basic standards for quality, which include freedom from unwarranted surveillance.”
Charles Weisselberg quoted by Voice of San Diego, Sacramento Report, August 5, 2016
“I know that not every lawyer provides pro bono assistance over the course of his or her career,” said Charles Weisselberg, a professor and former associate dean at UC Berkeley School of Law. “But inculcating that value early is important and will, I believe, assist these fledgling lawyers over the course of their careers.”
Jennifer Moreno quoted in Daily Journal (registration required), August 4, 2016
“Exemption from the APA would eliminate important public involvement in the most serious punishment a state can impose,” Moreno said. “As we’ve seen in other states, when departments of corrections are able to act with little to no transparency, they act careless and risky… and don’t engage in due diligence when making decisions.”
Paul Schwartz writes for Bloomberg BNA, August 3, 2016
The law now faces the task of clarifying questions about the international reach of a variety of a legal authorities and processes. In so doing, it should maintain a level playing field for U.S. cloud companies who store their data extra-territorially.
Eric Biber and Daniel A. Farber quoted by Northern California Record, August 3, 2016
The so-called “Chevron deference … is the concept that if a statute in unclear or ambiguous, courts might defer to an agency’s interpretation of the law,” Eric Biber … told the Northern California Record. … “The argument for deferring to agencies is that they have more expertise than courts. Agencies will have economists and scientists, as well as lawyers and engineers on staff, and judges are just lawyers.”
Farber echoed the opinions of others at the conference when he said the court’s lack of reliance on Chevron deference in King proved its justices are “far more removed” from being accountable within a democratic system.
Franklin Zimring quoted by The Washington Post, August 3, 2016
Franklin Zimring … has argued that Bratton and his lieutenants contributed to making New York City’s streets safer — and that what Zimring calls the “New York model” helped reduce crime in other cities, too.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, August 2, 2016
In both cases, the courts ruled against Viacom’s controlling shareholder — National Amusements — as well as Sumner M. Redstone and his daughter, Shari. Both courts found that the issues raised required a trial to examine whether Mr. Redstone, 93, was competent to remove Philippe P. Dauman and George Abrams from the trust that will control Viacom and CBS on Mr. Redstone’s death or incapacity.