When San Jose’s City Council recently voted 11-1 to resume “sweeps” that would wipe out homeless encampments around the city, the news hit one group of young adults especially hard. “It was kind of shocking,” said Danielle Graugnard, a law…
Michael Vargas wrote an article for San Jose Spotlight about the new San Jose police chief Anthony Mata, and how he will engage with the LGBTQ+ community. His selection became controversial almost immediately, as community leaders raised concerns about his…
Margaret Russell was interviewed by KQED radio about an Orange County teacher who was suspended for attending the January 6 capitol riot. The teacher did not enter the building.
Eric Goldman was quoted by the Washington Examiner about the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to give itself more authority to create and enforce new rules that could hold Big Tech companies accountable for anti-competitive behavior; by Fortune Magazine about whether…
Margalynne Armstrong’s 2016 Santa Clara Law Review article “Are We Nearing the End of Impunity for Taking Black Lives?” was mentioned in SheFlexx, a newsletter for progressive women over 50. The article traces US law’s failure to protect black lives,…
Tyler Ochoa was quoted by Marketwatch about the latest battle between Oracle Corp. and Google over “fair use” of software code. The complex case was originally filed by Oracle in 2010, months after the company bought Sun Microsystems Inc., seeking…
Colleen Chien spoke with Professor JJ Prescott and Rebecca Vallas of the Center for American Progress about her “important and eye-opening” work that “has been fueling state momentum to make criminal record-clearing automatic for everyone who’s eligible.” Listen here and…
Catherine Sandoval formally requested that US District Judge William Alsup probe PG&E for potential charges after the company withheld documents from the court’s investigation of a deadly 2020 wildfire. Read more. “We’ve got to improve PG&E’s attitude,” Sandoval said. “PG&E…
Margaret Russell spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle about a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by former San Francisco school board Vice President Alison Collins’ after she was demoted for tweets she posted in 2016 attacking Asian Americans. “If she was saying this…
Scott Maurer was quoted in a WalletHub article on debt consolidation. “‘Shady’ is a good word” to describe such companies (that advertise on TV and radio making wild promises about debt forgiveness), says Scott Maurer, a consumer law professor at…
