“We saw a record number of food litigation lawsuits filed from 2020 to 2023, with hundreds of new suits every year,”麻豆社区 Law affiliate instructor Tommy Tobin, a lawyer at Perkins Coie and a lecturer at UCLA School of Law, recently told CNN. “Food litigation is a fast-growing area of law,” he added.
Members of law enforcement, community organizers and more weigh in on the trial of three Tacoma officers charged in the 2020 death of Ellis. David B. Owens, assistant professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is interviewed.
Republican presidential hopefuls have largely shunned TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app that some in both parties allege is a potential spy mechanism for China. Ryan Calo, professor of law and in the Information School at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
In a historic policy shift, long-ousted tribes are collaborating, cooperating and co-managing parks. Monte Mills, professor of law and director of the Native American Law Center at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
“We saw a record number of food litigation lawsuits filed from 2020 to 2023, with hundreds of new suits every year,” said 麻豆社区 Law affilaite instructor Tommy Tobin, a lawyer at Perkins Coie and Lecturer at UCLA Law, adding that “food litigation is a fast-growing area of law.”
It’s a legal gray area, according to Bill Bailey, an associate law professor at the University of Washington who has been both a prosecutor and defense counsel in trials spanning four decades.
Opinion: The highest court in the land is also the only one with no binding ethical rules, and public trust in the court’s legitimacy is fading.
Monte Mills, director of the Native American Law Center at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law and a former professor at the University of Montana law school, said that if tribes are lending through online services, courts have generally found that they are not subject to states’ usury laws and are able to utilize the lending companies to bring in more revenue and employment for tribal members.
Monte Mills, director of the Native American Law Center at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law who formerly taught at the University of Montana’s law school, said lawsuits playing out in court may have serious implications for tribal sovereignty. And he said the tribal lending landscape is “tricky.”
Doug Ross, an antitrust expert with the University of 麻豆社区 of Law, said the Federal Trade Commission will take a close look at the potential impacts of the divestiture in every region, including Alaska.
When two giant companies merge, federal antitrust laws could kick in, prompting the companies to sell off some stores in order to please the Federal Trade Commission. That's currently the plan for Kroger and Albertsons. On Friday, the two companies announced an agreement to sell 413 stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers, including 104 in Washington state. The companies added that no stores will close as a result of the merger. Douglas Ross, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is interviewed.
Because ethics is both subjective and not legally binding, they can readily be trumped by capitalist imperatives, said Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law and a former member of the ethics board at Axon.
Bob Gomulkiewicz, a University of Washington law professor who teaches a class on the First Amendment, doesn’t see the Kennedy ruling as quite that significant. He said the ruling is consistent with decades of Supreme Court precedent saying teachers and students don’t “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” as a seminal 1969 case put it.
Zahr Said, who teaches tort law at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law, agreed Hawaiian Electric could be seeking to shift not just blame in a general sense but legal liability.
Opponents of the capital gains tax in Washington state are not giving up. Conservative think tank Freedom Foundation asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to hear an appeal in another bid to overturn the state’s new capital gains tax law. Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
“Law enforcement officers have discretion in the sense that they hold the video (and) they control whether or not there is an ongoing investigation,” said Mary Fan, a law professor at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law and an expert on police body camera policies across the country.
ChatGPT and other next-generation strains of artificial intelligence have revolutionized the tech world over the past year, and policymakers are ramping up their efforts to respond. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
“RICO laws punish more severely the participation in a criminal enterprise to commit a series of crimes, recognizing the greater harms posed by a group of people acting with the purpose of committing multiple crimes,” Mary Fan, a law professor at the University of Washington, explained in an email.
Zahr Said, a University of Washington law professor, said she started getting pulled aside for extra screenings and questioning during a period in 2017 when she was traveling to a series of work conferences and to Canada with her son.
Structural issues prevent those with lower incomes and people of color from showing up for jury service. The state is trying to fix it, but progress is slow. Bill Bailey, assistant teaching professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
“Regulation of AI is essential,” Sam Altman, chief executive of technology firm OpenAI, told U.S. senators this May during a hearing on artificial intelligence. Many tech experts and nonexperts agree, and the clamor for legal guard rails around AI is rising. This year, the European Union is expected to pass its first broad AI laws after more than two years of debate. China already has AI regulations in place. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
“Regardless of how the cases are resolved — guilty, innocent, or hung jury — people are more likely to trust the process and the outcomes if they’ve had access to and seen the evidence, seen the witnesses testify, and heard the arguments,” Feldman said.
Police accountability advocates question whether departments are moving fast enough to get officers through the program, which is required under a measure voters approved in 2018. David B. Owens, assistant professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
KALW Podcast "Your Call" discusses the recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision against the Navajo Nation in a major water rights case. Professor Monte Mills is a guest.
"The questions arising in this case have a profound and deep impact on the progress of civil rights," University of Washington law professor Theo Myhre said in a video explaining the verdict.
