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11 Oct 2010, 3:20 pm by Tiffany Chiao
”It’s a pretty straightforward case,” said Choper, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 9:48 am by Tiffany Chiao
“You certainly want someone with the reputation as having significant intellectual capacity as a lawyer,” says Choper. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 9:51 am by Tiffany Chiao
Williams http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pardon-power-20110111,0,671424.story “In the main, it gives people who are convicted of a crime yet one more opportunity to get a government office to review it and make a determination whether the sentence is unjustified or excessive,” said Jesse Choper, a constitutional law professor at UC Berkeley’s [...] [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 1:00 pm by Tiffany Chiao
“It is an industry that is having real challenges,” Choper said. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 3:19 pm by Tiffany Chiao
San Francisco Weekly, March 16, 2011 by Joe Eskenazi http://digitalissue.sfweekly.com/article/The+Unkindest+Cut/670411/64234/article.html Adds Jesse Choper of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, “Under the federal Constitution, unless you could show that the purpose of this was to disadvantage Jews generally, and since it’s a neutral law and applies to everyone, it’s not a violation of the free exercise [...] [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 10:09 am by rmorgan
Choper cited lack of “meaningful” student input as the primary reason for the delay in a letter on Monday to Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 12:26 pm by Tiffany Chiao
section=news/politics&id=8270928 Choper says the president’s right on the 14th Amendment; it’s not a good legal argument for raising the debt ceiling. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 4:41 pm by rmorgan
. “The critical issue was the reason for putting them out,” Choper said. “Was it to suppress the speech or” for other legitimate reasons. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 11:44 am by rmorgan
Rocket Lawyer, November 15, 2011 by Charley Moore and Eva Arevuo http://legallyeasy.rocketlawyer.com/the-road-to-citizens-united-93874 Echoing Stevens, Berkeley Law professor Jesse Choper, who we spoke to in last week’s podcast, agreed that corporate money was a dangerous injection into the democratic system: “the force of big sums of money is really a very corruptive force in American democracy. [read post]
1 Oct 2012, 3:19 pm by Mohana Kute
Jesse Choper interviewed by myLaw.net, August 31, 2012 “It was extremely controversial, extremely close in both Houses of Congress and very much criticized by the very conservative wing of the Republican Party. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 9:57 am by rmorgan
The Daily Californian, January 31, 2012 by Chloe Hunt http://www.dailycal.org/2012/01/31/police-review-board-process-stalled/ In a Jan. 27 letter to Birgeneau, UC Berkeley School of Law professor and chair of the board Jesse Choper stated that the board’s planning was delayed due to insufficient student input because of winter break. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 10:36 am by Tiffany Chiao
Wood http://bit.ly/dzOAyj “There is no question … that California can pass a law saying it’s no longer illegal to have, grow, or smoke marijuana,” says Jesse Choper, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 10:39 am by rmorgan
Wood http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0816/BART-puts-social-media-crackdown-in-uncharted-legal-territory “This is loaded with legal issues that could go one way in a district court and another in a circuit court, but the US Supreme Court is the only one that can really clarify them definitively,” says Jesse Choper, a constitutional law professor at the [...] [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 1:28 pm by rmorgan
The Daily Californian, December 1, 2011 by Aaida Samad http://www.dailycal.org/2011/12/01/occupy-cal-demonstrators-pack-police-review-board-meeting/ The meeting closed with remarks from Choper, who said that he understood the “sincerity and intensity” of the demonstrators’ feelings and hoped that they understood the intention of the board to carry out an impartial investigation. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 10:03 am by Tiffany Chiao
Al Jazeera, August 13, 2011 by Evan Hill http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/08/201181221139693608.html Jesse Choper, a professor at the Berkeley School of Law and a constitutional law expert, said BART could argue it had acted to preserve public safety rather than halt a protest but that blocking mobile services to entire areas may have obstructed more free speech than was necessary…. [...] [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 9:41 am by rmorgan
The Daily Californian, September 15, 2011 by Alex Kopel http://www.dailycal.org/2011/09/15/asuc-passes-bill-in-support-of-affirmative-action/ Though Proposition 209 bans awarding admissions decisions based on race and ethnicity alone, SB 185 would allow admissions officers to view ethnicity as part of the student’s background as a whole, according to Jesse Choper. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 9:27 am by rmorgan
Neon Tommy, September 5, 2011 by Paresh Dave http://www.neontommy.com/news/2011/09/gay-marriage-issue-returns-california-court “This court customarily defers to state law,” said Jesse Choper, an expert on federal law at UC Berkeley. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 4:58 pm by rmorgan
Fox News, September 27, 2011 by Joshua Rhett Miller http://fxn.ws/rigDmH Though Proposition 209 bans awarding admissions decisions based on race and ethnicity alone, S.B. 185 would allow admissions officials to view ethnicity as part of the student’s background as a whole, Jesse Choper, a UC Berkeley law professor told The Daily Californian. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 3:15 pm by rmorgan
George http://www.northcoastjournal.com/news/2012/02/23/justice-ashes/ In cases when police don’t have time to get a warrant, Choper explained, there are circumstances that make it legally excusable to enter someone’s property warrantless. [read post]