The Daily Record, March 30, by Caryn Tamber
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=4872&type=UTTM
“I think the role of the victim in a determination of the sentence is at least more legally, or I would even say constitutionally, justifiable, but I think we have to take very, very great care to distinguish between the victim’s interest, which … may be in conflict with the range of considerations that a just sentencing requires,” Semel said.
KGO-TV, ABC7News, March 30, by Tomas Roman
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/media?id=6048974
“Foreclosing agencies sue the owner for eviction; the owner doesn’t live there…. So what a tenant needs to do is go find a lawyer and fill out the paperwork, and say ‘I want to be a party to this lawsuit.’”
The Recorder/Law.com, March 28, By Niraj Chokshi
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1206700926319
“These actions are very rare,” said Jesse Fried.
ABC Science, March 27, by Agence France-Presse
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/27/2200771.htm?site=science&topic=latest
“On the positive side … we haven’t had an execution in six months and the world hasn’t fallen off its axis. Life has not changed…. It’s not so much a dramatic thing in California where we have executions on a very occasional basis, but in states like Texas, where executions are quite frequent, one could look around and say ‘So? We can live without it.’”
NPR, Tell Me More, March 26, by Michel Martin
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89109192
“When [Barack Obama is] governing, race will be important simply because it’s required to address it, I believe, in order to forge the kind of moral and political consensus we need on issues whether it’s immigration or whether it’s when do we use troops abroad…. If you hide from the issue of race than you’re going to fail in your obligations as a leader to build bridges that will connect people across lines of class and color.”
Climatewire, March 25, by Colin Sullivan
http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=4632&mn=6612&pt=msg&mid=4416500
“I think the PUC [Public Utility Commission] has done about the best job it could in trying to set it up in a way that would hold up in court,” Farber said. “They’ve certainly thought hard about it.”
Oakland Tribune, March 24, by Mike Taugher
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20080323/ai_n24956434
“It seems that 22 years after the (appeals court) decision, the Delta is in worse shape,” said Richard Frank…. “The application of public trust values makes a lot of sense,” he said, adding that such a proceeding is “the unfulfilled legacy of the Mono Lake decision.”
Newsday, March 24, by Tom Brune
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/monday/news/ny-usrace235624517mar24,0,4961041.story
“Obama’s success has exploded cynical preconceptions about the willingness of voters to cross the color line,” he said, “although it would be wrong to suggest that either race or gender is irrelevant….” The question is, Edley said, “Can the political process get beyond those simple but powerful, demography-driven narratives to appreciate the character, values and policies of three real people”?
San Francisco Chronicle, March 23, by Carolyn Jones and Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/22/BA27VP3K1.DTL
“From the standpoint of keeping the streets safe, she was a candidate for Social Security when she showed up at the beginning of her term,” Zimring said. “This apparatus is all extraordinarily arbitrary.”
The Times-Standard, March 23, by Thadeus Greenson
http://www.times-standard.com/ci_8668539?source=most_viewed
“The main goal was just to make it equal,” Lemon said, adding that she and others faced some opposition in changing the law. “I think No. 1 was the assumption that when people marry, they consent to sex—that wives consent to sex at any time, and don’t really have the right to say no.”
San Francisco Daily Journal, March 20, by Brent Kendall
http://www.dailyjournal.com
Elisabeth Semel … was pleased with the outcome but found it “very peculiar” that the Court did not focus on the Simpson-specific facts or the racial issues that surrounded the entire trial. Semel … said the opinion was “stripped of all its important racial context…. It’s a missed opportunity to talk about race.”
Mercury News, March 20, by Sean Webby
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8642914?source=most_viewed
“San Jose has an extremely low homicide rate—even this year—by Bay area standards,” Zimring said. “There are no indications in this small collection of cases that there has been any real trend.”
Slate.com, March 19, by Diane Amann
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/03/19/what-em-snyder-em-did-not-say-about-race.aspx
“The U.S. Supreme Court is to be commended for what it did in Snyder. But on this day when America ponders Sen. Barack Obama’s profound unmasking of the issue of race, it seems proper to question the decision of the Court to leave so much unsaid.”
Nature.com, March 17, by Erika Check Hayden
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080317/full/452265b.html
“The re-examination has strengthened WARF’s [Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation] position,” Taymor says. “It has deflected attention from the downstream patent landscape that WARF and Geron have created, and which is much more critical to commercialization than the fundamental patents.”
U.S. News & World Report, March 17, by Emma Schwartz
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/world/2008/03/17/the-challenge-of-prosecuting-bosnian-war-criminals_print.htm
The limited enforcement “raises this perception of legitimacy and fairness,” says Laurel Fletcher, a human rights law specialist. “[These cases] are essentially associational crimes, and people are feeling that in the context of a war, when they weren’t given a choice and political dissent was not permitted, that they shouldn’t be judged for their actual association.”
WSJ.com, MarketWatch, March 17, by Gail Liberman and Alan Lavine
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/your-bank-should-doing-protect/story.aspx?guid=%7B8C4ADD11-3644-400B-A02C-D6D283DDFF5C%7D
“Lending institutions should publicly report basic statistical information about identity theft events,” he says. Information they should disclose: The number of identity theft events suffered or avoided; the form of identity theft attempted; the targeted product, such as a mortgage loan or credit card; and the amount of loss suffered.
NPR, Weekend Edition Sunday, March 16, by Nancy Mullane
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88324577
“It would have been quite routine for people pretty close to the time of their eligibility to get a parole date and get paroled…. This [1988] ballot initiative made each one of these decisions a personal accountability point for the governor.”
Eureka Times Standard, March 10, by Thadeus Greenson
http://www.times-standard.com/ci_8518591
“Typically batterers can be wonderful, loving, sweet people, sometimes, and victims are often hoping they will return back to the person they have been,” Lemon said. “There’s always the hope that he will change.”
Salon.com, March 9, by Joan Walsh
http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/election_2008/2008/03/09/policylink/
“We’ve been having this dialogue, black-brown, from the day we met. We care passionately about finding ways in our own work to try and make America live up to its promise. What I’ve learned is, the tensions are real, but you can overcome.”
The Recorder, March 7, by Sarah Song
http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/index.jsp
“The archbishop and his supporters are gambling that accommodating Islamic courts is not only the right thing to do, but also the best way to foster the integration of Muslim minorities in the West. They may well be right. But they need to offer concrete proposals for addressing this dilemma. So long as the dominant interpretations of Shariah law deny the equality of women, formally recognizing it may come at women’s expense.”
