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.”
Jill Adams quoted in The Washington Post, July 22, 2016
Adams said she was glad the appeals court overturned Patel’s feticide conviction, but that it was still worrisome that she faced a felony neglect conviction. Adams called the prosecution a misuse of the criminal justice system. “No person in Purvi Patel’s position should have to feel threat of arrest or jail for ending their own pregnancy,” she said. “That is not what these laws were put in place to do.”
Jill Adams interviewed by Mother Jones, July 22, 2016
“The SIA Legal Team is pleased the court recognized that feticide laws are intended to protect, not prosecute, pregnant women,” she wrote in an email. “Women don’t need to be stigmatized and sentenced; instead, they need safe, affordable access to provider-directed and self-directed health care.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, July 22, 2016
The ExamWorks Group buyout and related lawsuit shows how changing takeover laws are steering shareholders toward more appraisal actions and making deals riskier for buyers.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, July 19, 2016
The changes she outlined, in tying corporations more closely to the state, represent a significant shift from the generally laissez-faire positions the Conservatives have held since the Thatcher revolution of the 1980s. Ms. May’s proposal has the potential to be equally revolutionary: a call to rethink not just the supervision of the corporation but the state’s relationship to the corporation.
Christopher Hoofnagle and Paul Schwartz quoted in The Guardian, July 19, 2016
“California is an ‘all-party consent’ wiretapping state. What that means is, even on things like a conference call, before you record it, you’re supposed to announce to everyone, ‘I’m going to record this call,’” said Chris Hoofnagle. … “There’s civil and criminal liability.”
Paul Schwartz … said Swift could also bring a “tort claim” alleging “public disclosure of private facts.”