NBC-7 San Diego, 8/16/22
Co-Director Roxanna Altholz Quoted on NBC About Anastasio Hernández Rojas Case Against U.S.
Clinic Helps Family of Anastasio Hernández Rojas Take the Next Step in Landmark Human Rights Case Against U.S.
Alliance San Diego, 8/16/22
Flight Attendant Case Tests If State Labor Laws Trump FAA Rules
A California law requiring rest and meal breaks for workers has become a fierce battleground between airlines and flight attendants that may soon draw in the US Supreme Court.
Escalation of the Supreme Court’s leak probe puts clerks in a ‘no-win’ situation
In most other pockets of the federal government, a public employee’s decision to lawyer up in the face of an internal investigation would be a no-brainer. But for Supreme Court clerks now being asked to cooperate with new steps in the court’s leak probe, such a move could upend the trajectories of their careers.
PAC’s Stephanie Campos-Bui in Strong Crop of New Berkeley Law Professors
Berkeley Law, 08/01/2022
Robbins Fellow Spotlight: David De Concilio
Among the innumerable disruptions of recent years the COVID-19 pandemic upended David De Concilio’s initial plan to use his Robbins Collection Fellowship to complete his thesis. Instead, De Concilio was awarded his joint PhD through the University of St. Andrews, Scotland and the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy before his visit to UC Berkeley. […]
Director of Policy Initiatives Jennifer Urban Gives UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Lecture
Berkeley Law, 7/26/2022
The Statutes of Bologna’s Law School Exhibition Now Available
Our new exhibition, The Statutes of the University of Bologna, is now available online. It is based on a translation of the statutes by Robbins Collection Senior Reference Librarian Jennifer K. Nelson, as well as on material included in our earlier exhibition, The Medieval Law School. The Robbins Collection houses the Statuta universitatis bononiensis (Robbins […]
Juvenile Restitution Imposes Harmful Debt on Youth
The New York Times, 07/14/2022
Viking River Cruises v. Moriana: California Courts are Not Bound by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Misconstruction of PAGA Standing
LAW & POLICY NOTE (July 2022)
The U.S. Supreme Court June 2022 decision in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana held that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) does not preempt a rule of California law that invalidates contractual waivers of the right to assert representative claims under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) in any forum. However, in a portion of the majority opinion that four justices refused to join, the Court created confusion about whether plaintiffs subject to arbitration lose standing under state law to maintain representative PAGA claims in court. We explain why the majority’s view of PAGA standing in Viking River Cruises clashes with the California Supreme Court’s authoritative approach to PAGA standing, announced two years ago in Kim v. Reins International California, Inc. We conclude that California courts are not bound by the portion of Viking River Cruises that posits the loss of representative standing to litigate PAGA claims on behalf of other employees, and instead must follow Kim.