On July 25, 2022, four days before Beyoncé was set to stop the world with her new album Renaissance, a Kelis fan page on Instagram claimed that a track would sample one of the hip-hop artist’s early 2000s hits. Beyoncé, it turned out, appears to have interpolated Kelis’s 2003 song “Milkshake” on her new track “Energy.” Responding to the fan page, Kelis claimed that Beyoncé did so without giving her a heads-up and slammed the Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, with whom she worked on the single decades ago, for not originally giving her credit. Peter Nicolas, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is interviewed.
Bothell-based biotech company Seagen was flying high this spring. The drug developer reported strong first-quarter results, and shareholders seemed pleased. During an April 28 earnings call, CEO Clay Siegall effused about the company while answering investors’ questions. A few weeks later, on May 16, Siegall announced his resignation from the company he led for 24 years. Jennifer Fan, associate professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is referenced.
Mary D. Fan is a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of California, current law professor at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law, and author of “Camera Power: Proof, Policing, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data.” She discusses this recent court ruling and how widely accessible recording is shifting the relationship between the public and the police
When I saw that a robot had broken the finger of a 7-year-old boy it was playing at the Moscow Open chess tournament, my first reaction was, 'They're coming for us.' All the machines that have been following commands, taking orders, and telling humans, 'Your order is on the way!', 'Recalculating route!', or 'You'd really like this 6-part Danish miniseries!' have grown tired of serving our whims, fulfilling our wishes, and making their silicon-based lives subservient to us carbon breathers," writes NPR's Scott Simon. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
The University of 麻豆社区 of Law announced that Tamara F. Lawson has been selected as the next Toni Rembe Endowed Dean.
“One of the best and most important defenses is reliance on the advice of a professional,” said Scott Schumacher, a law professor at the University of 麻豆社区 of Law, who has served as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Tax Division as well as defense attorney for clients fighting similar charges to Williams.
Douglas Ross, a veteran antitrust attorney who has represented hospitals and teaches antitrust law at the University of Washington, said it’s well established that antitrust enforcers can block mergers if they harm labor market competition. “What’s new is this administration is actively looking for cases where they can make that claim,” he said.
"In its recent cases, an ideological U.S. Supreme Court is not just driving toward desired results. It’s also engaged in a troubling drive to return the court to late 19th century legal theories that until 1937 caused great harm to state and federal efforts to improve Americans’ lives," writes Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the 麻豆社区.
The case out of Oklahoma gives state law enforcement agencies broad authority to prosecute non-native offenders who commit crimes on reservation lands. Eric Eberhard, affiliate assistant professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
Native leaders and Indigenous rights lawyers in the Puget Sound region and beyond are raising the alarm about a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, saying it threatens tribal sovereignty with regard to criminal prosecutions and beyond. Eric Eberhard, affiliate assistant professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
"Ultimately, my empirical analysis reveals that a number of factors impact the extent to which startup corporate governance measures are implemented and prioritized, including the power dynamics among the board members; the emergence of a founder-centric model after the Great Recession; startups staying private longer; the pervasiveness of the growth-at-all-costs mantra; and the economic climate."
Jeff Feldman, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, joins "New Day Northwest" to talk about what's next for our state and the country after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, says the State Supreme Court might find that the State Constitution protects the right to an abortion, but it's not easy to get that question in front of the court.
A 1991 ballot measure in Washington that protects women's abortion rights could serve as a blueprint for other states in the wake of last week's Supreme Court opinion, its primary author told Axios. Stewart Jay, professor emeritus of law, is quoted.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a former Bremerton High School football coach had a constitutional right to pray alongside student athletes on the 50-yard line after games. Bob Gomulkiewicz, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling for the state of Maine may one day impact Washington’s charter schools. Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
Democrats in Washington state want new authority to block mergers involving faith-based hospitals if those deals would limit abortion access. Douglas Ross, affiliate instructor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
Two years ago, as protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd gripped the nation, the state Supreme Court went out of its way to call on lawyers, judges and courts across the state to do more to address longstanding institutional racism. In the two years since their letter, the court has made efforts large and small, symbolic and concrete, trying to move toward a more just legal system. Kim Ambrose, teaching professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
The Washington state Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a person’s race, and law enforcement’s long history of discrimination against people of color, should be taken into account when determining the legality of police seizures. Mary Fan, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
Days before Congress began its committee hearings into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, the Justice Department announced a superseding indictment in the case of five members of the Proud Boys group, including Ethan Nordean of Auburn. Mary Fan, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is interviewed.
The flying Taser drones would be pre-installed in school ceilings so an officer could launch one within seconds of a reported shooting, piloting it through special vents into locked classrooms, stunning the gunman with shock darts and shouting commands like, “Stay down or you will be hit again.” That, at least, was the proposal that police-contracting giant Axon championed last week after the Uvalde school massacre. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
A majority of Axon’s AI Ethics Board resigned in protest yesterday, following an announcement last week that the company planned to equip drones with Tasers and cameras as a way to end mass shootings in schools. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
Taser developer Axon said this week it is working to build drones armed with the electric stunning weapons that could fly in schools and “help prevent the next Uvalde, Sandy Hook, or Columbine.” But its own technology advisers quickly panned the idea as a dangerous fantasy. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
Mary Fan, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, comments on the plausibility of a claim of self defense in the case involving a Pierce County council candidate.
Can China have it both ways? Can it keep out Covid-19 and maintain robust growth in the run-up to a crucial Communist Party Congress in the autumn, one that could make Xi Jinping president for life? Beijing seems to think the answer is yes as it doubles down on coronavirus restrictions, even as the official number of cases drops in places like Shanghai. Prof. Dongsheng Zang interviewed.
