In the News - January 11, 2021
Media Highlights
What would self-pardon mean for President Trump? Law professor says it could get messy
ABC7 News—January 8, 2021
Joel Paul: “I don’t think it would be possible to actually complete an impeachment trial in the time that we have left.”
Rethinking gender alliances at work
Strategy+business—January 8, 2021
Center for WorkLife Law: Research from UC Law SF College of the Law found that men are often penalized for taking caregiving leave or seeking a flexible schedule.
State Policies To Make Health Care More Affordable During COVID-19 And Beyond
Health Affairs—January 8, 2021
Center for Innovation: Catalyst for Payment Reform and the Source on Healthcare Price and Competition jointly developed a public database that catalogues state laws and pending legislation to control health care prices.
Raleigh and Durham say they won’t force city employees to get COVID vaccine
The State—January 7, 2021
Dorit Reiss: Government agencies can mandate vaccines, with some exceptions.
Safeway parent outsources some grocery deliveries to gig companies
San Francisco Chronicle—January 6, 2021
Veena Dubal: “I think it really symbolizes the grocery stores’ faith in the gig model.”
KPCC AirTalk—January 4, 2021
Rory Little: “There are federal statutes that talk about attempting to deprive people of a fair and impartial election. There’s enough here for an investigation.”
Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism
The New York Times—January 4, 2021
Veena Dubal: “The Google union was a ‘powerful experiment’ because it brought unionization into a major tech company.”
Use it or lose it: Gift cards could become worthless if the issuer goes bankrupt
San Francisco Chronicle—January 2, 2021
Rory Little: “No one thinks it’s a good idea to upset your gift card holders.”
College and Community Stories
Happy New Year from Chancellor and Dean David Faigman
Despite its manifest difficulties, 2020 gave us more reasons than ever to be hopeful.
Prof. Weisberg Trains SF DA’s Office on Domestic Violence
As a national expert on domestic violence law, UC Law SF Professor D. Kelly Weisberg observed with concern as the COVID-19 lockdowns exacerbated what she knew to be an already a pervasive problem.
Scholarly Leadership
Jared Ellias received a $60,000 grant from the American Bankruptcy Institute to support research projects that will study the impact of bankruptcy filings on firm performance.
Scott Dodson and his co-authors published “The Zooming of Federal Civil Litigation,” 104:3 Judicature 13 (Fall 2020).
Jodi Short published “Facile Formalism: Counting the Ways the Court’s Removal Jurisprudence Has Failed” in Yale Journal on Regulation’s Notice and Comment Blog (December 14, 2020).
Jon Abel briefed and argued a case at the federal defender’s office. The Ninth Circuit issued the opinion U.S. v. Dixon and the court ruled that inserting a key into a vehicle lock is a search under the trespass theory of the Fourth Amendment.