Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, 11/22/2022
PAC and UCLA Study Finds California Still Violates the Constitution on Bail
Jeff Selbin on California’s Expansive New Criminal Record-Clearing Law
New York Times, 11/28/2022
Stephanie Campos-Bui on Interdisciplinary Problem Solving in PAC
Law & Political Economy Blog, 11/17/2022
Samuelson Clinic Fall 2022 Newsletter
Samuelson Clinic, 11/16/22
Policy Advocacy Clinic Fall 2022 Newsletter
Policy Advocacy Clinic, 11/16/2022
Clinic Fall 2022 Newsletter
International Human Rights Law Clinic, 11/16/22
Clinic Helps Bring U.S. Law Enforcement Killing to International Stage for First Time
Berkeley Law, 11/10/22
Leslie v. Starbucks: Why Hire Labor Spies When Courts Will Do the Union-Busting for You?
LAW & POLICY NOTE (November 2022)
In the union organizing campaigns of the 1930s, companies paid legions of spies to report everyone who attended a union meeting and what was said. Union meetings were held at night in pitch dark rooms so that no one could tell who else was there and who said what. Today, Starbucks needn’t hire spies. They just use subpoenas in civil litigation. In an outrageous decision, a judge in the Western District of New York let them get away with it. Starbucks issued a subpoena in the NLRB’s litigation to obtain an injunction under section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act against the company’s ongoing unfair labor practices against its workers in Buffalo and Rochester. Through the subpoena, Starbucks sought an enormous amount of confidential information about virtually every aspect of the entire nationwide Workers United campaign at every Starbucks across the country. In September 2022, the judge ordered the union and the workers to produce a staggering number of emails, text messages, and records of other communications in response to the subpoena. This Note explains why the court’s order is contrary to law. The matter is now on appeal in the Second Circuit, and if the court of appeals does not overturn the ruling, it will turn any enforcement action brought by the NLRB into a hunting license for companies to harass unions and workers.
Clinic Argues Family Members of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas vs. United States Case Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
International Human Rights Law Clinic, 11/3/22
Upcoming Conference, Courts and Social Changes: Comparative Perspectives in Ibero-American and Asian Legal Systems
The Robbins Collection & Research Center is proud to announce our upcoming conference, Courts and Social Changes: Comparative Perspectives in Ibero-American and Asian Legal Systems. The conference will be held at Berkeley Law on November 4 and 5. With the turn of the third millennium, modern states face new challenges to their democratic traditions. The […]