Business/Corporate Law

Professor Kenneth Ayotte is one of a group of bankruptcy law professors weigh in on Johnson & Johnson’s use of the bankruptcy system to settle lawsuits alleging that its talc products cause cancer, calling the strategy a “serious abuse” and accused J&J of attempting to “deprive innocent talc victims of their day in court.

Professor Kenneth Ayotte says the private equity consortium that controlled Warrior Met’s finances had a clear interest in a fast bankruptcy process that would largely benefit their own bottom lines, not the interests of the workers

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, discusses a new CLEE report that found San Diego’s nearly $2.2-billion Blue Line trolley extension cost taxpayers double the national average per mile for light-rail projects

Professor Catherine Fisk discusses how in an effort to support and protect essential workers and small businesses, California has introduced the FAST Recovery Act which ensures shared responsibility between franchisors and franchisees for legal compliance 

Professor Jonathan Simon says that due to businesses trying to maximize profits by reducing the number of people working there, the automated self check-outs enable theft

Professor Orin Kerr appears in The Lawfare Podcast to discuss about the merits of Apple’s lawsuit and its implications for the spyware industry and cybersecurity norms 

Professor David Oppenheimer, Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law,  comments on the Activision Blizzard Inc. and Monster Beverage Corp. case and says California courts will likely uphold the gender mandate since these laws have become commonplace in much of the world

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, explains why U.S. construction projects are harder to get done and says the costs are higher than those in Western Europe and democratic nations in Asia

Professor Andrea Roth says genetic genealogy can be an effective tool for the public good, but cautions that most states have no restrictions on its use

Professor Orin Kerr says that what should be kept and what should be available is a relatively new question in law when referring to Facebook’s claims of deleting the data relating to the New Mexico militia group’s accounts