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The Daily Journal: 1989 precedent on default judgements*
Professor Paul Hoffman comments on the ruling, which could have significant implications in other collections cases in which defendants are not properly served.
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The New York Times: Ride-Hailing Drivers in Massachusetts Win Right to Unionize
Professor Veena Dubal commented in the New York Times on the new law in Massachusetts giving ride-hailing drivers the right to unionize.
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MSN:An Overlooked Path to a Financial Fresh Start
Professor Dalié Jiménez said that even in the absence of widespread economic catastrophe, when someone declares bankruptcy “there has been a failure…a lot of that failure is not on the person but on the system that has no other safety net for you.”
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KUER: With water rights in hand, Navajo still hope to restore farms on Utah’s San Juan
Professor Heather Tanana is quoted: “The government’s policy at that time was to promote agriculture, to promote farming. So this promise has been made to Navajo for a very long time that they would be able to productively develop the land … and you can’t do any of that without water.”
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CATO Institute: A Look Back at the Panic Over Big Money in Politics (Book Review)
Professor Ann Southworth’s Book Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending “…offers a balanced take on the fallout from the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.”
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Reason: Professor Ann Southworth’s Book “Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending” (Book Review)
“Ann Southworth’s Big Money Unleashed is a reasonably illuminating new book.”
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Daily Journal: LA DA Gascón to recommend resentencing of Menendez brothers*
Professor Katie Tinto was quoted in The Daily Journal about the potential resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez.
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The Salt Lake Tribune: After a glitch in child abuse referrals, Utah, Navajo Nation making changes in how they communicate
Professor Heather Tanana says understanding and respecting jurisdiction and tribal sovereignty is key to handling child welfare cases involving Native American children.
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Consumer Financial Protection Circular: Prof. Veena Dubal’s Work on Algorithmic Wage Discrimination Cited
Professor Veena Dubal’s work on algorithmic wage discrimination is relied upon and cited in a new Consumer Financial Protection Circular.
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Orange County Register: UCI opens new civil rights law center named for Japanese-American who fought 1942 internment order*
UC Irvine Law celebrated the opening of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality on October 22.
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MSN: Who’s Afraid of Gary Gensler? Not Don Wilson, the Trader Who Beat the Regulator Once Before
Professor Kevin Haeberle said that some heads of regulatory agencies are simply “more aggressive” than others. “When those individuals find themselves limited in what they can do in terms of rule-making, they often turn to regulation by enforcement.”
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Environmental Working Group: New approaches to public data make the invisible visible: The environmental injustice of pesticide use in California
A joint report from: Californians for Pesticide Reform, UC Irvine School of Law Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources , Environmental Working Group, and Golden Gate University School of Law
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Company pays off debts of Atlantans in ‘random acts of kindness’
Professor Dalié Jiménez says, “Debt is a trap.” The further behind consumers fall, the harder it is to escape without severe damage to their lives, said Jimenez.
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Daily Journal: Supreme Court Rejects Bar’s Attorney-Supervised Exam Alternative*
Mary Basick, Assistant Dean for Academic Skills, was quoted in the Daily Journal about the California Supreme Court’s sweeping new recommendations for a new California bar exam.
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The Daily Journal: California’s dirty secret: Clean-record deals kept badcops on the job*
Prof. Susan Seager and the Press Freedom Project were highlighted in an opinion piece in The Daily Journal about clean-record agreements.
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L’Eco di Bergamo: Incorrect Information Can Generate False Memories
Professor Elizabeth Loftus: “Our mind can be influenced and believe situations or things that never happened to be true.”
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