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Beth Van Schaack was nominated to serve as Deputy to the Stephen Rapp, Ambassador-At-Large for War Crimes Issues.
The San Jose Mercury News ran an op-ed by David Yosifon titled “Discouraging job creation overseas could backfire on the U.S.” . Read the op-ed...
Angelo Ancheta will give the keynote address at “Redrawing the Maps: Redistricting, Race and Representation in the Next Decade” , a symposium on January 28 at Stanford Law School. Read more...
Gerald Uelmen was quoted in a Chicago Tribune story about an expected increase in funding for videotaping interrogations of crime suspects, and in an Associated Press story, picked up by 28 outlets, about debates over the California death penalty.
Michelle Oberman was quoted in a story on Women’s eNews about common elements among mothers who kill their children.
David Sloss appeared on the NBC Bay Area show California Nonstop, discussing the situation in North Korea with the death of leader Kim Jong Il.
Vangie Abriel has been selected as an Appellate Lawyer Representative by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Appellate lawyer representatives serve three-year terms, during which they participate in meetings throughout the circuit, coordinate activities with District Lawyer Representatives, and attend and participate in the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, an annual gathering of federal judges, attorneys, agency representatives and court staff.
Cookie Ridolfi was awarded a Hackworth Grant for Research in Applied Ethics by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. The grant of $5,000 was given to support work called “Prosecutorial Ethics Curriculum.” Professor Ridolfi, who is Director of the Northern California Innocence Project, is working with her peers at the Project to address the problem of prosecutorial misconduct. In addition to research on the instances of practices like improper argument and the use of false evidence, Professor Ridolfi and her team will be developing teaching modules keyed to each common type of prosecutorial misconduct.
Eric Goldman’s Technology & Marketing Law Blog was named runner-up for the prize of Best Law Professor Blog on Dennis Kennedy’s 2011 “Blawggie Awards” . This award complements those he received in 2008 and 2010.
Colleen Chien and a co-author had an oped published in the New York Times online, explaining that the International Trade Commission’s current methods of handling patent disputes puts consumers at risk of not getting certain products, such as certain Android cell phones, at Christmastime.
Patricia Cain was quoted at length in a New York Times “Bucks” blog, about the IRS’s incongruous treatment of the adoption tax credit for a same-sex couple, in which one of the partners adopts the other’s biological child. The Advocate wrote about the story and Cain’s comments. Read more...
Eric Goldman was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story, reprinted in about three dozen publications or sites, about “SOPA,” a legislative proposal for imposing penalties for piracy online, which many feel is threatening online content overall.
Gerald Uelmen was quoted in an Associated Press story that ran in more than 180 publications or sites, about a rare California Supreme Court decision overturning a death penalty verdict.
A paper by Stephen Diamond and a co-author, about how the New York Stock Exchange is less transparent now that its ownership structure has changed, was mentioned in the blogs Securities Prof Law Blog and Environmental Law Professors.
Bradley Joondeph talked to USA Today and the National Journal about how and why the Supreme Court’s justices are likely to view the first challenge to Obama’s health care law that has been accepted for hearing by the top U.S. court.
Stephen Diamond talked to ABC7 about Zynga’s attempts to recoup some stock options from employees in advance of its IPO.
Eric Goldman was quoted in a New York Times story, reprinted in at least 20 other outlets, about a settlement between Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission over privacy abuses. He and a co-author were also quoted in MediaPost about their letter opposing a new rule by the Copyright Office that could expose websites to devastating costs just for failing to renew certain paperwork every two years.
Linda Starr was quoted in a Los Angeles Times story, which ran in a handful of other papers or websites, about an imprisoned Modesto man who will get another chance to seek a retrial in a murder case.
Beth Van Schaack wrote an op-ed that ran in the San Jose Mercury News entitled “Guantánamo hearing shows stark deficiencies of military justice”. Read more...
Bradley Joondeph was quoted in a Bloomberg Business Week story on the likelihood that the Supreme Court would take up constitutional questions around the federal Affordable Care Act.
Gerald Uelmen talked to the Los Angeles Times about the “gangbusters” opinion that allowed backers of California Prop. 8 to defend it in court, even though lawyers for the state of California will not.
Colleen Chien was quoted in eWeek about a court decision against Rambus, saying companies that rely too heavily on litigation success for their business model are taking a big risk. She also was quoted in The Recorder about the lack of transparency at certain patent auctions, a story that was picked up by Corporate Counsel magazine.
Gerald Uelmen was quoted in the Jewish Chronicle about when free speech crosses the line into hate speech on campus.
Stephen Diamond talked to MarketWatch about the conditions behind Groupon’s IPO. He also appeared on KGO-ABC7 TV to discuss questionable moves by Zynga to recoup stock options granted to early employees.
Patricia Cain was quoted in a Tax Notes story about the IRS agreeing to allow sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy as deductible medical expenses.
A study of county prison usage by David Ball was featured in a story in the legal publication the Daily Journal.
Colleen Chien was quoted in a story that ran in MocoNews and paidContent.org, about why tech companies try to ignore patent issues at the innovation stage of creating new products.
Eric Goldman was quoted by MediaPost on a suit by the New York Times over the right of Huffington Post to name a blog Parentlode.
Two Santa Clara Law professors spoke to Bay Area Channel 2 news on November 8. David Ball talked about the American Muslim student who was tracked by the police with GPS tracking and sued, and Deep Gulasekaram spoke about a 30-year-old undocumented man being deported. The man has been here since 1995 when he applied for political asylum, which has been denied.
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Beth Van Schaack visited Guantánamo Bay to witness first criminal military-tribunal proceeding under the Obama Administration. The proceedings were fraught with complex legal implications, as Prof. Van Schaack shares in her blog.
An Associated Press story quoting Stephen Diamond about HP’s reversal of its decision to split off its computer division (which he likened to “dividing Siamese twins”) ran in nearly 500 sites and publications, in cities like Ft. Wayne, Ind., Albuquerque, N.M. and Memphis, Tenn., as well as international papers such as the Toronto Star, Kenya Star and Pakistan Observer.
Colleen Chien talked to Politico about the increasing, controversial role of the ITC, which has the power to block access to U.S. markets, in patent litigation.
Tyler Ochoa was quoted in BNA Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Daily on the unusual lawsuit by artists seeking to obtain a share of revenue from paintings when they are re-sold to a second buyer by the first buyer.
Brad Joondeph was quoted in Politico about the likelihood and implications of a Supreme Court review of the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the federal health reform law. California Healthline carried the story as well. Also, the National Law Journal and the popular blog SCOTUSblog mentioned Joondeph’s blog as being “very useful” and “the go-to place” for those following challenges to the national health law. Read the National Law Journal article...
Deep Gulasekaram was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor about challenges to Alabama’s tough new immigration law.
Anna Han was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about Chinese company Alibaba hoping to buy Yahoo.
Beth Van Schaack was quoted in Ethical Corporation about a September court ruling that curtails the ability of international human rights activists to bring claims against multinational companies in U.S. courts.
Catherine Sandoval now has a wikipedia page: wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Sandoval
Colleen Chien was quoted in a Reuters story, which ran in 85 papers or sites, noting that Steve Jobs' death is not likely to slow the patent war between Apple and Samsung. She also was quoted in a story that ran in Nature magazine and Scientific American, about the increased risk to biotechnology firms of lawsuits by patent "trolls" whose main purpose as a business is to collect money using patents they've purchased.
The news that the Northern California Innocence Project helped free a Los Angeles man wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years was carried in 380 newspapers, websites or blogs across the country, via an Associated Press story and two L.A. Times stories. Cookie Ridolfi and Maurice Possley wrote an oped for the San Jose Mercury News about how attorney misconduct is not being reported to the California Bar Association as required by law.
Deep Gulasekaram was interviewed twice on KLIV radio, about why the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to take on controversial immigration issues in the upcoming term, and about the federal crackdown on California medical marijuana dispensaries.
Brad Joondeph was interviewed on KLIV radio about the Supreme Court's upcoming term.
Congratulations to Linda Starr, who was named to the Daily Journal's top lawyers of 2011 list! Read more...
Congratulations to Eric Goldman, who has just been announced as one of the winners of the prestigious California Bar 2011 IP Vanguard Awards (academic/policy category). The awards "honor outstanding legal professionals who are spearheading new developments in the world of intellectual property." Read more...
Colleen Chien, a published author, scholar, and expert on U.S. and international patent law, was invited to attend President Obama’s signing of the long-awaited patent-reform law Friday, Sept. 16 in Alexandria, Va. More...
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An op-ed by Deep Gulasekaram about the California Dream Act ran in the San Jose Mercury News on Sept. 15, 2011. Read more...
Beth Van Schaack has received a President's Award from Santa Clara University for excellent in teaching and scholarship. The award was announced and made on September 13 at the Faculty Convocation marking the beginning of the university's new academic year.
The San Jose Mercury News ran a feature story on the “Trial of Our Century,” the re-enactment by the Law School of the trial of famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow on charges of jury tampering a century ago. The story noted Don Polden’s skill at portraying the “slimy” bribe-fixer, Bert Franklin, and cited an essay on the ethics of the trial by Gerald Uelmen.
Gerald Uelmen was quoted in a widely reprinted Los Angeles Times story about the odds against Prop. 8 backers being denied the right to argue for the voter proposition in court. He also was quoted in a National Public Radio story, which ran in numerous major markets across the U.S., about how Catholics generally continue to support the death penalty.
Gary Neustadter was quoted in a Mercury News article about the bankruptcy of Salinas electric-car company Green Vehicles.
Stephen Diamond was quoted in several Associated Press stories about HP’s surprise move to hire Meg Whitman. The stories ran in over 300 venues including Forbes, Boston Globe, Austin American-Statesman, Huffington Post and Miami Herald.
Eric Goldman was quoted in dozens of publications including the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, New York Times and the San Jose Mercury News about subjects including Google CEO Eric Schmidt testifying in Washington, D.C. on antitrust issues, legal battles between SAP and Oracle; and a rare Twitter stalking case.
A columnist with the Oakland Tribune discussed research by David Ball showing that counties make disproportionate use of prison space, and some may be rewarded for their overuse in the new realignment plan underway in California.
Deep Gulasekaram was interviewed on KFWB AM in Los Angeles, about a fundraiser for his nonprofit Project Heart, which raises money to reverse heart disease in East African children.
Margaret Russell discussed the decision by Judge Ware to release videotapes of the Prop. 8 trial with the legal publication Daily Journal.
Jesuit.org noted the creation of SCU’s new low-income taxpayer clinic, through which students will represent taxpayers in disputes with tax officials. The item mentioned the new clinic director Caroline Tso Chen.
Brad Joondeph spoke to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times about a federal appeals court setback to the Obama Administration’s health-care law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He also wrote an essay cited by SCOTUSblog on the constitutionality of ACA.
Colleen Chien was quoted in an Associated Press story about the “patent arms race” that was behind Google’s recent $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility. The story ran in 68 papers or websites nationwide.
Research into county prison usage by David Ball continued to receive coverage, in the San Bernardino Sun, Inland Daily Bulletin, Oakland Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Eric Goldman was featured in numerous tech-law stories, notably those on the Google settlement with the Justice Department and on antitrust interest in Google’s Motorola purchase. Stories, some of which were reprinted dozens of times, ran in the New York Times, Reuters, and Inside Higher Ed.
Tyler T. Ochoa and Professor H. Tomas Gomez-Arostegui of Lewis and Clark Law School have submitted an Amici Curaie brief to the Supreme Court that explores the history of the copyright laws in the United States and Great Britain in support of the petitioners in Golan v Holder. The case challenges the constitutionality of Congress restoring copyright of foreign works that were previously in the United States public domain. The case potentially affects the copyright status of millions of copyrighted works.
Colleen Chien explains “How to Turn the Table on Patent Trolls” in a Forbes op-ed. Also check out Prof. Chien’s recent scholarly article on the patent ecosystem.
Marina Hsieh was interviewed by NBC's Damian Trujillo about the legality of a San Jose restaurant and bar’'s controversial dress code. The NAACP and Latino Leadership Alliance raised concerns that the code was a proxy for race discrimination. She also will conclude a 4-year term on the CA State Bar's Council on Access and Fairness in mid-September.
Eric Goldman was consulted for numerous tech-law articles, including an Economist article questioning what the FTC could be probing in its action against Google; a widely reprinted Seattle Times story about a woman who sued her ex-boyfriend over his Facebook posts; and a Mashable.com story on a consumer who secretly took photos of Apple customers via computers in a store.
Anna Han was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story, which appeared in more than two dozen publications, about the difficulties faced by Facebook and others trying to operate in China’s censoring marketplace.
KLIV Radio interviewed Patricia Cain about the legal issues families should consider when it comes to end of life issues.
KLIV Radio interviewed Margaret Russell about repealing the Defense of Marriage Act.
Colleen Chien was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about Microsoft pursuing patent lawsuits against Android phone and tablet manufacturers using Nortel patents. The story appeared in well over a dozen other publications and sites.
Gerald Uelmen was quoted in a widely reprinted San Jose Mercury News story about the negative impact of Gov. Brown’s delay in filling the state Supreme Court vacancy.
A lengthy interview of Patricia Cain about the complex and contradictory tax requirements for married same-sex couples was featured on KQED-FM. Cain also talked to Going Concern and Bay Citizen about the issue, and to Bay Area Reporter about how bankruptcy courts are recognizing the rights of same-sex couples despite a federal law to the contrary.
Margaret Russell spoke to KQED Forum about the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a California law that had sought to restrict purchases of violent video games by minors.
Brad Joondeph was interviewed by KCBS and KNX (in Los Angeles) about the Supreme Court’s ruling to strike down a California law restricting purchases of violent video games by minors.
Don Polden was quoted in an NPR Morning Edition story, aired on stations nationwide, about bias being alleged against blind students by law schools.
Ellen Kreitzberg had a letter to the editor published in the LA Times and the Mercury News, about the budgetary cost of the death penalty.
Ron Katz had a letter to the editor printed in the New York Times regarding a lack of rules to prevent injuries at home plate in baseball.
Brad Joondeph was quoted in a Politico story about how challenges to the Obama Administrations’ health-care law could get bogged down in procedural issues such as whether the challengers have legal standing to bring them. He was also quoted in CQHealthbeat about the lawyers for the two sides of the health-care litigation and in the San Francisco Chronicle about the likelihood of the suits being heard by the Supreme Court.
Deep Gulasekaram talked to KQED radio about a Supreme Court ruling that states can crack down on businesses that hire undocumented immigrants.
Stephen Diamond was quoted in a MarketWatch story about challenges facing Hewlett Packard’s new CEO.
Eric Goldman was quoted in Bloomberg Business Week about an FTC probe of Google. The story also ran in the Washington Post. KTVU also interviewed him on whether Facebook's automatic facial recognition software is an invasion of privacy, and he was quoted in MediaPost about a search-engine lawsuit and in InformationWeek and other affiliated publications about a lawsuit against Google over the name Chrome.
Anna Han was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News and other papers about a settlement between Yahoo and a Chinese company 40 percent owned by Yahoo, which transferred a valuable asset without Yahoo’s knowledge.
Patricia Cain and Stephanie M. Wildman will both be presenting at a roundtable entitled Discovering, Developing, and Teaching Women’s Law Stories as part of the Law and Society meeting in San Francisco on June 5. This Roundtable will explore the process of discovering, researching, developing and teaching stories of women and law, both litigants and lawyers, and the significance of these stories for feminism, legal history and legal theory. The panelists will consider the explanatory power of individual stories for understanding the first and second waves of the women's legal movement and for exploring the impact of gender discrimination as well as race, class, and sexual orientation on the experiences of women. More info...
Michelle Oberman was quoted in the Fort Collins Coloradoan about the tragedy of mothers who kill their own children.
Eric Goldman was quoted in a New York Times story about the difficulty of enforcing privacy laws of different countries on Internet companies like Twitter, and spoke to the New York Times and KGO TV about a challenge to Google over its acceptance of ads from rogue pharmacies. He also spoke to the San Jose Mercury News about a Facebook PR firm’s clandestine campaign to bash Google. All the stories were widely carried by other media outlets nationwide.
Anna Han was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News about a dispute between Yahoo and its Chinese company partner.
David Ball talked to KCBS and KLIV radio stations about a new Supreme Court decision ordering California to release thousands of prisoners due to inhumane conditions in the prisons.
Linda Starr was quoted in the legal newspaper Daily Journal about a new DA for Kern County who has drawn criticism for her aggressiveness, and in the Louis Farakkhan/Nation of Islam-founded paper The Final Call about the prevalence of wrongful convictions, especially against African-American men.
Al Hammond was quoted in a story about social entrepreneurship in the San Jose Mercury News.
Eric Goldman was quoted in the International Herald Tribune, New York Times and numerous Las Vegas sites and newspapers including the Las Vegas Sun about a key case regarding bloggers’ rights to reproduce articles written by news organizations.
Asian Journal wrote a profile of Angelo Ancheta who was recently appointed to the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Patricia Cain was quoted in Bankrate.com about the difficulties of married same-sex couples to figure out their tax-filing status, due to conflicts among various laws.
Sandee Magliozzi, Director, Professional Development and Externships, was elected a Director on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) during their annual business meeting on April 29. Her extensive past service to NALP includes service as chair of the Law Student Professional Development Section; as a vice-chair of the Law Student Professional Development Section; as Liaison to the LGBT Bar Association; as a member of the Professional Development Institute Planning Committee; as an author of numerous past NALP Bulletin articles; and as a speaker at past NALP conferences.
Brad Joondeph was a guest on the syndicated public radio Kojo Nnamdi Show to discuss the progress of legal challenges to Obama’s health-care law.
An Associated Press story exploring the cases of mothers killing their children quoted Michelle Oberman and ran in more than 240 publications or sites nationwide, including theAtlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Tribune, the website of the Today Show, and the Kansas City Star.
Eric Goldman was quoted in the New York Times about a ruling against Google in Europe and in the LA Times about the failed effort by twobrothers to further sue Mark Zuckerberg. His new site highlighting an abusive practice by some doctors, DoctoredReviews.com, was written up in Bloomberg News, MediaPost, and the blogs TechDirt and Justia.
David Friedman was quoted in the Boston Globe and Jewish World Review about widespread misperceptions of the economic success of President Herbert Hoover.
Santa Clara Law’s High Tech Law Institute and UC Berkeley Law School’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic have created a new website, doctoredreviews.com, to expose the legal and ethical risks of restricting a patient's right to free speech.
Patricia Cain was quoted extensively in the New York Times blog, Bucks, about the strange tax situation that married gay couples find themselves in because of a lack of recognition of same-sex marriage by federal tax officials.
Ellen Kreitzberg was interviewed on KQED’s Forum about the start of the trial for the alleged murderer of journalist Chauncey Bailey.
Stephen Diamond was quoted in the New York Times about Facebook’s firing of an employee for stock-trading violations.
Eric Goldman was quoted in an Associated Press article about Google’s acquisition of airline fare tracker ITA Software, which ran in about 95 outlets. He also was in the Financial Times, two Wall Street Journal blogs, NPR’s Marketplace, the Mercury News and San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal discussing various timely tech-law cases.
David Hasen was quoted over three days for a special report on KLIV radio about the push for breaks on taxes for companies that “repatriate” earnings being held in overseas affiliates.
Dean Donald Polden was noted in ABA Journal, Inside Higher Ed and Tax Prof for his reaction to criticisms of an ABA committee’s proposals to revamp law-school accreditation standards.
Colleen Chien wrote a piece for Patently O, regarding the FTC and patents and notices.
David Friedman wrote an article for The Progress Report on Progress.com, arguing that markets are “highly but not completely efficient.”
Gerald Uelmen was quoted in a Monterey County Herald story about a stalking defendant’s victim being advised by his lawyer.
Cookie Ridolfi was recognized in the March 2011 issue of California Lawyer as one of the 45 recipients of the Clay Award - given to those “whose outstanding work had a significant impact in 2010.” Read more...
Paige Kaneb, Supervising Attorney with the Northern California Innocence Project, wrote an opinion piece for the San Francisco Chronicle titled “DA Should Admit Convicting an Innocent Man” about the case of recent exoneree Maurice Antwone Caldwell.
Northern California Innocence Project’s Veritas Initiative was reported on by CNN.
The San Jose Mercury News ran an article detailing how prosecutor David Angel is teaching a wrongful conviction class alongside Cookie Ridolfi, the director of the Northern California Innocence Project.
Lecturer Gordon Yamate wrote an oped for the San Jose Mercury News about how a judge’s decision in a shareholder lawsuit involving Del Monte Foods sheds light on investment bankers’ conflicts of interest.
Scott Maurer (KGACLC) appeared in an ABC “7 on Your Side” story that provided tips for indebted people to stop harassing calls and tactics by collection agencies.
David Sloss wrote an oped for the legal paper San Francisco/Los Angeles Daily Journal about a lack of knowledge about international law by those prosecuting piracy.
Catherine Sandoval was selected a “2011 Woman of Influence” by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal (along with 5 Santa Clara Law alumna).
Eric Goldman was interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle on search bias, which has emerged as a central issue in Google antitrust inquiries. Read more... He also was in Politico.com talking about the New York Times’ new charges for online news.
News that the Northern California Innocence Project had achieved one prisoner’s exoneration and another’s verdict reversal (which later became an exoneration) made headlines across the country, including stories in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, KTLA TV, Herald Sun, TMC.net, McClatchy Information Services, and the CBS blog CrimeSider. Some of the stories quoted Linda Starr.
Patricia Cain was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle about the complexities for same-sex couples filing taxes.
Brad Joondeph’s comments about the Supreme Court’s plans to expedite hearings on the federal health law were carried in the blog California Healthline.
Brad Joondeph made the National Jurist’s list of “23 Law Professors To Take Before You Die” as best professor of Constitutional Law. Gerald Uelmen made the same list as best professor of Criminal Procedure. Read more...
Lynette Parker co-authored a Promising Practices Manual titled “Representing Survivors of Human Trafficking” which was just published by Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco. It is being marketed nationwide. Professor Parker was also invited to participate in a stakeholder meeting organized by Office of Victims of Crime (U.S. Department of Justice) and OVCTTAC. The meeting brought stakeholders from around the country together for a two-day intensive discussion on emerging issues for victims of crimes in the U.S.Professor Parker is being given an award by Community Solutions (Morgan Hill/Gilroy) as their "Helping Hand" award recipient on March 18.
Cookie Ridolfi and Maurice Possley co-authored an opinion piece in the San Jose Mercury News headlined “Opinion: Defendants exonerated, but off-base prosecutors pay no price”, about prosecutorial misconduct
A study on duopolies co-authored by Allen Hammond was cited in stories about Rupert Murdock, in the Columbia Journalism Review and the Washington Post.
Patricia Cain was interviewed by Tax Notes about the complexities of a new IRS rule allowing same-sex partners to claim refunds using state community property rules.
Brad Joondeph was quoted by Politico.com about the pace of lawsuits challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and his blog was quoted in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. ABC.com quoted him in a story about the oddities of having Washington state’s top legal enforcer fighting the Obama health law while the governor supports it.
A symposium organized by Eric Goldman about the 15-year anniversary of a key Internet law, was the subject of several days of social-media chatter on Twitter and blogs. Stories stemming from the conference were posted at AltAssets.net, Computerworld, Techdirt, and paidContent.org (which was picked up on various Yahoo! Sites). Also, Goldman was quoted in TechWeb, the San Francisco Chronicle, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Warren’s Washington Internet Daily about tech-law topics.
Tyler Ochoa was quoted in MediaPost.com about why TV streamer Ivi – which has been ordered to cease certain operations - does not meet the legal definition of a cable system.
Deep Gulasekaram was quoted in various newspapers and websites, including the Fresno Bee, Sacramento Bee, Hispanic Business, and NorthJersey.com, about California’s attorney general seeking to lift the stay on gay marriages while the matter is litigated.
Sandee Magliozzi spoke to the Recorder about how law firms can add value. The story was picked up in the Community Voices blog of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
The National Center for Policy Analysis ran a feature item about a paper co-authored by David Friedman suggesting that indigent defendants be able to pick their lawyer through a voucher system.
Patricia Cain talked to KLIV radio about the Obama Administration’s decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act.
Ed Steinman talked to NBC about the Obama Administration’s decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act.
Dean Donald Polden was featured in the Legal Intelligencer commenting on the complexities of adding diversity to the factors considered by law-school rankings. He was also in the Daily Record discussing dropping the LSAT from admissions requirements.
Stephen Diamond was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News article about the coming wave of IPOs. He also had a letter in the UK Guardian arguing that recent events in Egypt and Tunisia are not similar to Polish Solidarity.
Eric Goldman was in the Wall Street Journal discussing an antitrust inquiry into Apple’s distribution methods. The story and Goldman’s quotes were noted in the New York Times. Goldman also talked to the Wall Street Journal about the Prince of Monaco suing a blogger, and to Information Week about the rise of lawsuits concerning improper sharing of “unique identifiers” in phones. He was also cited in Law.com, the U.K. Register, and appeared on ABC7.
A San Jose Mercury News story quoting Anna Han about a high-level trip to a China factoring beset by employee suicides was picked up by 30 other papers or sites including the Vancouver Sun, and the Knoxville News Sentinel.
EDN.com wrote about a paper by Colleen Chien describing changing attitudes toward “patent trolls,” or companies that buy or use patents largely to make money.
Cookie Ridolfi is one of 45 attorneys named by California Lawyer Magazine in their 15th annual California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Awards. Award winners' achievements had a significant impact in 2010, or their work is expected to have such an effect in the coming years. Professor Ridolfi was awarded for her investigation of more than 700 cases of prosecutorial misconduct in California and subsequent publication of her findings in a landmark report last fall for the Northern California Innocence Project. After revelations that only six prosecutors were ever disciplined, the State Bar of Californiahas pledged to reexamine all allegations made in the report and increase efforts to educate prosecutors about its discipline process.
Art Gemmell, International Law Scholar in our Center for Global Law and Policy, and Autumn Talbott, a 2010 Santa Clara Law graduate, co-authored an article entitled "The Lex Mercatoria-Redux"that will be published in the upcoming edition of the Transnational Dispute Management Journal.
Congratulations to Angelo Ancheta who has been named to the 14-member Citizens Redistricting Commission, the voter-created body that is re-drawing legislative, congressional and other voting districts in California by Aug. 15. More...
Congratulations to Cathy Sandoval, who has been appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to serve on the California Public Utility Commission. The PUCregulates telecommunications, energy, water, and some transportation services under state jurisdiction. This story made headlines nationwide, including stories in Capitol Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Daily Times, Bellingham Herald, and the San Jose Mercury News and numerous MediaNews, Dow Jones and AP stories. More...
Stephen Diamond was quoted in MarketWatch, the San Jose Mercury News and more than a dozen affiliate papers discussing HP’s controversial choices for new board members.
Brad Joondeph was quoted on ABCnews.com about legal challenges to the Obama administration's health care reform law, stating that ultimately the constitutionality of the law will be decided by the Supreme Court.
Brad Joondeph was quoted in the New York Times about the pro-business focus of the Roberts Supreme Court and spoke to the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and National Public Radio station 89.2 KPCC about a legal setback to the Obama health-care law.
Eric Goldman was quoted in ABA Journal about an Apple anti-sexting technology.
Pat Cain’s Same Sex Tax Law blog was cited in a New York Times article about a new IRS decision that affects same-sex partners in the three states with both community-propertylaws and same-sex marriage or registered domestic partnerships: California,Nevada and Washington.
Anna Han was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News, ABCNews.com and the Contra Costa Times talking about some of the problems in the background during the visit of China’s President Hu Jintao. The story ran in numerous other publications.
Dean Donald Polden wasquoted by the National Law Journal, American Lawyer, Texas Lawyer, U.S. News & World Report’s Morse Code blog, Inside Higher Ed, Environmental Law Professors and others about ABA’s discussions about whether the LSAT should be mandatory for law-school admission.
A new website dedicated to explaining the Catholic Church’s views on the death penalty, created by Gerald Uelmen was highlighted in Catholic Voice of Oakland and the website of the California Province of Jesuits. Uelmen was also quoted in the San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle and in a widely reprinted AP story about the retirement of Calif. Supreme Court justice Carlos Moreno.
Stephen Diamond was quoted in a widely reprinted San Jose Mercury News story about the potential investment frenzy that might ensue from a Facebook IPO.
Ed Steinman was interviewed on KCBS radio about the decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to ask the California Supreme Court to decide whether the ballot measure's sponsors can defend the proposition in a federal court. He also spoke to KGO radio about the proposed Arizona legislation to prevent children of undocumented immigrants to be citizens and about a legal setback to the Obama health care law.
Two faculty members had their comments cited in the Federal Communications Commission's Net Neutrality order released on 12/23/2010. Al Hammond's comments filed on behalf of the Broadband Institute of California in conjunction with the Broadband Clinic course Al taught last fall, and Catherine Sandoval's comments, as well as her Fordham Law Review article, "Disclosure, Deception, and Deep-Packet Inspection" were cited several times. The order is lengthy and can be accessed from the FCC web site at: Fcc.gov. Once at FCC.gov, go to headlines, look for the orders released on Dec. 23, 2010, click on R&O for the Report and Order.
Gerald Uelmen moderated the Ingram Symposium, a discussion between Hon. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, the new Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court and Hon. Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The topic was maintaining collegiality in a contentious climate, and the participants touched on the recent shootings in Tucson of a congresswoman and federal judge. Watch a clip from KTVU news. The Daily Journal also ran on article on the Ingram Symposium.
Dean Donald Polden chairs the Standards Review Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. Comments he made to the Association of American Law Schools on the topics of tenure and ABA accreditation standards were the subject of stories in the San Francisco Chronicle, the ABA Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education and the National Law Journal.
The Northern California Innocence Project unearthed new evidence in the case of client Maurice Caldwell which led to his exoneration. Read more...
Kevin P. Quinn, S.J., executive director of the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education and professor of law, has been named the 25th president of The University of Scranton.Father Quinn will assume his duties as president on July 1, 2011. Since 2007, Father Quinn has taught in the School of Law where he offers a seminar on Bioethics and the Law. Father Quinn has also served as the executive director of the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education since 2006. As executive director, he has been instrumental indeepening the understanding of Jesuit education. Read more...
Eric Goldman was quoted in a Forbes Magazine article on Wikileaks and Julian Assange.
Margaret M. Russell wrote on op-ed for the Daily Journal which is a "roundup" of federal marriage equality federal cases in 2010.
David Ball was interviewed on CBS5 about a Supreme Court case addressing California’s dysfunctional prison system.
