Charles Weisselberg cited by ABA Journal, August 2, 2016
Scholars, such as Berkeley Law Professor Charles Weisselberg, reviewed police training with regard to interrogations and documented that officers were instructed as to how to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision in Miranda v. Arizona. Will officers now be encouraged to engage in illegal stops knowing that if an old arrest warrant is found, then anything found in a subsequent search likely would be admissible as evidence?
Steven Davidoff Solomon quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, August 1, 2016
“This gives Uber participation in the upside and a dominant position in the market in China,” said Steven Davidoff Solomon. … “My sense is that Uber shareholders and other investors felt there was more revenue and more growth to be had by combining (with Didi). In China, commerce can be political.”
Andrea Roth quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, July 30, 2016
“The well-acknowledged truth is that there is no known relationship between THC blood levels and increased relative crash risk,” Roth wrote in a California Law Review paper. If anything, she said, the studies suggest “that drivers with only THC in their blood are not causing a disproportionate number of fatal crashes.”
Eric Stover and Alexa Koenig interviewed by KQED-FM, July 29, 2016
Eric Stover: “Before you can have a trial, you actually need to have an accused. So, how do you go after those war crime suspects? And when you look at the post-9/11 environment, going after suspected terrorists, how did the United States conduct that pursuit? And was it illegal?”
Alexa Koenig: “How do you actually muster the political will to have countries aid and search for these individuals, or when they are–as our book is called–hiding in plain sight, when they’re right in front of us? How do you break down the political protections around them to make them vulnerable enough to get them into courts?”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, July 29, 2016
First, let’s say what the Yahoo sale is not. It is not a sale of the publicly traded company. Instead, it is a sale of the Yahoo subsidiary and some related assets to Verizon.
Robert Bartlett and Justin McCrary quoted by Reuters, July 29, 2016
Professors Robert Bartlett and Justin McCrary said their findings contradict the common belief that fast traders systematically exploit others who rely on public data feeds, which in the past were notoriously slow.
Ian Haney López interviewed by KALW-FM, Your Call, July 28, 2016
“It’s fundamentally a race-class story. Progressives need to respond to both elements. We lose when we only talk about class, because if we only talk about class, we don’t capture the way in which economic anxieties have been racialized in this country.”
Lee described the shift as a mix of “push and pull” from the two major American parties. The Democrats have backed policies like immigration reform, expanded health care access and affordable college and made visible appointments of Asian-Americans in key posts. Republicans have acted in ways that are “clearly unwelcoming” to Asian-Americans in those same policy areas, Lee said.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, July 26, 2016
The deal anecdotally shows that no company is safe from the creative destruction brought by technological change. The very nature of a company is fundamentally changing, becoming smaller and leaner with far fewer employees.
Jonathan Simon interviewed by San Francisco Chronicle, July 23, 2016
“The media has been giving all of these events, especially Dallas and Baton Rouge, assassination-level coverage, like with President Kennedy or Martin Luther King Jr.,” Simon said. “And that exacerbates things — the rhetoric, the emotions. If we give that much space to shootings, let’s give the same space to discussion of policing, to real grievances, to why these shootings are happening.”