A roundup of faculty appearances in news sources and media from the last two weeks, 5/23/14 to 6/5/14.
5/23 – A Chicago-Kent press release highlighted the new collaboration between the Oyez Project, founded and directed by Jerry Goldman, and the Texas Tribune. The partnership will soon launch a multimedia site for the Texas high courts, which will make cases before the Supreme Court of Texas and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals more accessible to the public.
According to the release, “the partnership is part of a larger initiative to expand Oyez’s successful U.S. Supreme Court site to all federal appellate and state supreme courts. The Knight Foundation has funded Oyez’s efforts in Texas, as well as in California, New York, Florida and Illinois, covering one-third of the U.S. population.”
5/30 – David Schwartz’s recent article, Understanding the Realities of Modern Patent Litigation (coauthored with John Allison and Mark Lemley and forthcoming in the Texas Law Review), was featured in an ALM online story (paid or free trial account required).
6/3 – Todd Haugh was quoted in a Chicago Tribune article about an early release for former Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., who is currently serving time in a federal prison camp in Alabama (“Jackson Jr. eligible for halfway house in about 3 months”).
6/3 – Dean Harold Krent appeared in an Al Jazeera America video on a new lawsuit in Chicago which claims that drug companies concealed the health risks associated with certain painkillers (“Multi-million dollar drug law suit rocks Chicago”).
6/4 – Richard Kling was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article on whether the young girls involved in a Wisconsin stabbing should be tried as juveniles or adults (“Is adult court right place for 12-year-old suspects in ‘Slender Man’ stabbing?”).
Blogs:
Sheldon Nahmod posted on two U.S. Supreme Court decisions from the week at his blog, Nahmod Law.
5/28 – Plumhoff v. Rickard: New Supreme Court Section 1983 Fourth Amendment/Qualified Immunity Decision
5/29 – Wood v. Moss: New Supreme Court First Amendment Qualified Immunity Decision Involving Presidential Security
6/2 – Steven Heyman’s ISCOTUSnow video commentary on Wood v. Moss was mentioned in SCOTUSblog’s Monday round-up.
6/2 – At The Walters Way, Adrian Walters wrote about the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Commission on Chapter 11 reform and his involvement with a symposium organized by the ABI.
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