-San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, by Deborah Saunders
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/20/EDVT10N2DQ.DTL
Rick Frank told me, “If Proposition 98 passes, it will be the property-rights and eminent-domain lawyers full employment act.”
-Contra Costa Times, May 25, by Richard Frank
http://www.contracostatimes.com/berkeleyvoice/ci_9271750
“Both propositions are vague as to when state government would be able to condemn property to prevent criminal conduct (e.g., crack houses) or protect public health and safety interests from hazardous waste sites.”
-KTVU Evening News, May 27, by Jim Vargas
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“Proposition 98 goes far beyond what is being advertised as the ‘save my home’ initiative … Water storage projects, water transfer projects, flood control measures and the like would all be threatened and perhaps impossible if Proposition 98 were to be enacted by the voters.”
-San Francisco Daily Journal, May 28, by Richard Frank
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“Californians can expect a great deal of litigation over the initiatives. A successful Proposition 98, in particular, promises to be the subject of numerous lawsuits that will likely be needed to resolve definitively the scope and meaning of that measure. Conversely, if both Propositions 98 and 99 are defeated at the polls, it can be safely predicted that California’s longstanding legal and policy debate over eminent domain, rent control and property rights will continue well past June.”
-ABC7-TV News, May 29, by Dan Ashley
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/assignment_7&id=6173232
An independent analysis by the University of California Center for Environmental Law and Policy found confusing language in both propositions…. “My sense is that if Proposition 98 is enacted, we will see a great deal of litigation to address a number of the key ambiguities in that measure,” says Richard Frank with the Center for Environmental Law and Policy.
San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, by Carolyn Jones
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/18/BAOK10OF9L.DTL
Yoo is not likely to be fired for his political views, Boalt Dean Christopher Edley Jr., wrote in a memo last month…. While many of his colleagues and students are disturbed by Yoo’s opinions, Yoo is protected by the First Amendment and campus policies on academic freedom, Edley wrote.
PBS Bill Moyers Journal, May 16
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05162008/watch.html
Maria Echaveste: Hillary Clinton did not get a fair chance with both media perspectives and the subtleties on gender discrimination. I think … there’s a zone of protection around Senator Obama on race where none existed on gender.… It also raised all kinds of pretty misogynistic views about women and that woman in particular. And a lot of women are angry about it.
Chris Edley: The real challenge of leadership is to find ways to talk about the things that divide us and help us figure out how to bridge those not by ignoring them but by, in some sense, overcoming them, resolving them, accommodating them.… I’m not for ignoring race in the sense that it can’t be ignored. It’s going be there no matter what. If you ignore it in the sense of simply not talking about it then you’ve failed to do anything effectively to deal with the cancer.
East Bay Express, May 14, by Robert Gammon
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/PrintFriendly?oid=727134
“Assuming one believes as I do that Professor Yoo offered bad ideas and even worse advice during his government service, that judgment alone does not warrant dismissal or even a potentially chilling inquiry.”
Contra Costa Times, May 14, by Mike Taugher
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nationandworld/ci_9261474
“The potential implications are limitless in terms of federal projects,” said Richard Frank.
San Francisco Daily Journal, May 6, by Laura Ernde
http://www.dailyjournal.com
“[The justices] are showing a level of engagement and interest that I haven’t seen since CEQA [California Environmental Quality Act] was enacted in the 1970s,” said Richard M. Frank…. “Thirty-eight years after the statute took effect, it’s still raising a lot of important and hotly debated issues.”
Daily Journal, April 30, by Fiona Smith
http://www.dailyjournal.com
“I think it will show up the potential and limitations of the Endangered Species Act as a tool of environmental policy making,” Frank said. “The ESA is more of a sledgehammer than a surgical instrument,” and it is “not the ideal means of addressing the extremely broad causes and effects of climate change.”
www.hapihour.org, April 25, by Keith Kamisugi
http://www.hapihour.org/?p=181
“Dale’s tireless commitment to civil rights has been an inspiration to his fellow lawyers and to the many disenfranchised groups he has so brilliantly represented,” said Berkeley Law Dean Christopher Edley, Jr. “His lifelong work as a champion of social justice fighting various forms of discrimination represents the very best of his profession, and is a shining example to everyone at Berkeley Law.”
The Recorder, April 24, by Petra Pasternak
http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1208947728506
“Though our first-time pass rates remain markedly higher than the overall pass rate for ABA-accredited law schools, we do not regard the 2007 results as acceptable,” Edley wrote in a memo to third-year students and LL.M.s on April 17. “We do not yet know whether those results reflect statistical variation or real changes in preparedness among our graduates.”
Howard Shelanksi noted that 82 percent is not bad compared with the overall pass rates for the California bar. But that’s little comfort to Boalt students, he added. “We want to push back up to our historic levels of bar-pass.”
“The bar is the mother of all closed-book in-class exams,” Bundy said. “I think the hiring of Kristen [Holmquist] provides a chance for us to look at the way these issues play out through the curriculum.”
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”?
