The San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking‘s selection committee has chosen Ruth Silver Taube JD ’93 as a 2021 Modern-Day Abolitionist Award recipient. The prestigious award honors key leadership on the forefront of protecting the rights and serving the legal…
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The eighth edition of the VAWA Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused Immigrants, has just been published by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. The manual is co-written by Evangeline Abriel & ILRC Attorneys. The guide is for advocates working with immigrant…
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Don Polden was quoted by MarketWatch regarding the government’s suit against Facebook for anticompetitive behavior. One of the remedies sought in the suits is to force Facebook to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp. “The government has a tough case,” Polden…
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By Deborah Lohse With devastating, record-smashing wildfires across California in recent years—many caused by aging or failing power lines and facilities—you’d think there would be an army of watchdogs clamoring to ensure that the state’s largest utility was doing all…
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Eric Goldman co-wrote an opinion piece for the San Francisco Chronicle with Irina Raicu of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at SCU, arguing that social media companies need to permanently ban political advertising. “Most importantly, even when a politician’s…
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Deep Gulasekaram spoke to Buzzfeed News about how ICE expelled 33 immigrant children back To Guatemala after a judge said they couldn’t. Pratheepan Gulasekaram, a professor at Santa Clara University Law School, said ICE’s repeated issues in court under the…
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Eric Goldman was quoted in a Yahoo News’ Business Insider article about how the Georgia Senators’ race runoffs could decide the fate of Section 230; in a Yahoo Finance article about lawmakers questioning Facebook and Twitter chiefs in a Senate…
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Deep Gulasekaram published a post on the Balkinization blog titled Presidential Immigration Federalism. Read the post.
Michelle Oberman was quoted in a Law Enforcement Today article about a woman who was accused of murdering her daughters. According to Oberman, oftentimes women who commit filicide are “isolated in their motherhood” and suffer from mental health issues or…
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Eric Goldman co-edited a new ebook on Zeran v. AOL, the most important Section 230 case. “The ebook does a deep dive on Zeran v. AOL, the most important Section 230 case of all time. The Zeran case was the…
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