Faculty in the News
USC Law professors are frequently sought by the media to serve as legal experts. This section highlights news citations in which USC Law faculty are quoted and USC Law is featured in stories.
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ABC 'Radio National'
August 11, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted in regards to the OECD’s action plan to stop multinational corporations like Apple and Google from shifting their profits to low tax jurisdictions and tax havens. “Starbucks is more frightening because if Starbucks can do it any firm can. Starbucks is not new economy, its old economy,” he said.
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Orlando Sentinel
August 10, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted in regards to Florida companies stashing billions abroad and avoiding U.S. taxes. “There is no prospect of corporate-tax reform without resolving this issue,” he said.
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The Washington Post
August 7, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about Amazon’s preparation for an overhaul of the tax code. “Companies are very concerned that they will be sold down the river by other multinationals with different priorities, so people hire a lot of lobbyists and try to make sure they’re not the ox that gets gored,” he said.
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U.S. News & World Report
August 6, 2013
re: Emily Ryo
Research was featured by Emily Ryo who found that Mexican migrants cross the U.S. border based on their beliefs about whether immigration laws are legitimate and fairly applied. “We should be asking whether this level of spending on this single issue is justified in terms of opportunity costs,” Ryo said. Yahoo! News also reported on the story.
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Odessa American
August 6, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about whether Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was a hero or a traitor to the U.S. “He isolated the law. He did not steal the files “by mistake.” He is a trained intelligence officer. He knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew exactly what WikiLeaks would do with the files,” she said.
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Forbes
August 6, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was mentioned in regards to being credited with coming up with the concept of “stateless income.”
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Yahoo!News
August 6, 2013
Jody Armour was quoted about the effects of the Stand Your Ground law in the recent George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case in Florida. 'We've got to understand what 'reasonable' means in the context of a great fear of crime, of great fear of violence, and of great fear of black crime and violence," he says. "And you have it again and again: juries saying it's reasonable to take drastic measures to avert drastic harm from black males.”
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The Huffington Post
August 5, 2013
re: Jack Lerner
Jack Lerner and Daria Roithmayr were interviewed about NSA information being funneled to the Drug Enforcement Agency for use in drug prosecutions.
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The Christian Science Monitor
August 5, 2013
Jody Armour was quoted about the George Zimmerman trial and American attitudes toward race. The perception, more than the reality, makes stand-your-ground laws vulnerable to racial bias. The fact that jurors deemed Zimmerman justified in standing his ground – but not Trayvon Martin – points to subtle prejudices, Armour said. "I don't think they walked past that issue. I think they walked right up to it, and said, 'Yes, we call this reasonable,' " said Armour.
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The Wall Street Journal
August 4, 2013
re: David Cruz
David Cruz was quoted about how judges in lower court are citing and even building on the U.S. Supreme Court rulings concerning same-sex marriage and other issues affecting gays and lesbians. So far, all of the rulings have come during preliminary stages of cases, so they might not lead to state laws being upended. But they show how the Supreme Court's decision could quickly reshape state law on marriage even though it only addressed a single part of a federal statute. “It’s a pattern that’s emerging-and it’s striking. Rather than finding ways around (the Supreme Court's ruling on) Windsor, judges are embracing its principles,” he said.
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Los Angeles Times
August 1, 2013
re: Emily Ryo
Los Angeles Times (July 31, 2013): Emily Ryo's new study, "Deciding to Cross: Norms and Economics of Unauthorized Migration," published in the August issue of the American Sociological Review, was covered by numerous media outlets. She found that Mexican migrants cross the U.S. border based on their beliefs about whether immigration laws are legitimate and fairly applied. Her study found that Mexican men who felt Mexicans or immigrants with darker skin were not treated fairly by enforcement were more likely to cross. "It allows them to see this particular law as not worthy of obedience," Ryo said. The story was also covered by The Guardian (U.K.) and KPCC-FM's "Take Two," CBS Radio, KRLD, in Dallas and the High Country News.
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Courier-Post
August 1, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about the verdict against Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. “Manning surely knew the information he was stealing would be seen and used by our enemies. But he is not an agent of al-Qaida. If he were, he would have given the information to them — not to the press,” she said.
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Los Angeles Times
August 1, 2013
re: USC Gould School of Law
A lecture to USC Gould Students by music business manager Leila Steinberg, who has founded a nonprofit for needy kids seeking artistic outlets, was mentioned.
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Courier-Post
August 1, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about the verdict against Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. “Manning surely knew the information he was stealing would be seen and used by our enemies. But he is not an agent of al-Qaida. If he were, he would have given the information to them — not to the press,” she said.
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Santa Monica Daily Press
August 1, 2013
re: Daniel Klerman
Daniel Klerman was quoted in regards to a local doughnut shop in a sticky situation after a New York bakery threatened to sue over a doughnut-croissant hybrid that’s taken the nation by storm. "Trademark tries to distinguish between words that identify a particular brand or a particular chain of bakeries all under one corporate umbrella. Words which identify brands, that's what a trademark protects. Doughnuts and croissants are what everyone can use, but Dunkin' Doughnuts is a brand," he said.
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Los Angeles Times
July 31, 2013
re: Emily Ryo
Emily Ryo's new study, "Deciding to Cross: Norms and Economics of Unauthorized Migration," published in the August issue of the American Sociological Review, was covered by numerous media outlets. She found that Mexican migrants cross the U.S. border based on their beliefs about whether immigration laws are legitimate and fairly applied. Her study found that Mexican men who felt Mexicans or immigrants with darker skin were not treated fairly by enforcement were more likely to cross. "It allows them to see this particular law as not worthy of obedience," Ryo said. The story was also covered by The Guardian (U.K.), KPCC-FM's "Take Two," CBS Radio, KRLD, in Dallas and the High Country News.
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S.F. Weekly
July 31, 2013
re: Daniel Klerman
Dan Klerman was quoted about trademark laws concerning the battle between the BART transit system in San Francisco and a local tee-shirt company. "Who thinks this shirt will get them on the train for free? Who thinks that if the quality of this T-shirt is bad, BART is a lousy train system because they make bad shirts?" he asks. "This should not be illegal. There is no harm to BART, and no harm to consumers. This is trademark law gone overboard,” he said.
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Bloomberg News
July 31, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was cited regarding President Obama’s latest income tax proposals.
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TEDD
July 31, 2013
re: Elyn Saks
Elyn Saks was interviewed about living with schizophrenia and what it's like to have a psychotic episode. Doctors initially gave Saks a 'grave' prognosis for the future. "Fortunately, I did not actually enact that grave prognosis," Saks said. "Instead, I'm a Chair Professor of Law Psychology and Psychiatry at the USC's School of Law. I have many close friends and I have a beloved husband, Will, who's here with us today."
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CCTV (Canada)
July 30, 2013
re: Josh Lockman
Josh Lockman was interviewed about the current peace talks between Israel and Palestine that Secretary of State John Kerry is facilitating. “I think what’s different this time is the energy we’re seeing that secretary Kerry is putting into this. He has single handedly brought the Israelis and Palestinians together over the last few months and laid the groundwork for what will be successful talks initially to try to bridge the gap between the two sides.
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Odessa American
July 30, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column by Susan Estrich ran concerning the role currently being played by Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, in the former congressman’s sex scandal and whether it should be her, not Anthony, running for mayor of New York City. “When the scandal first broke two years ago, Weiner lied. He repeatedly denounced the story and attacked those who were asking questions he didn’t want to answer. Only when he was trapped by his lies did he finally ‘fess up. And of course, he claimed it was over, he learned his lesson, never again, all the rest. All lies,” she said.
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The Global Mail
July 26, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about “stateless income” and international tax rules. Australian Broadcasting Corporation also quoted Kleinbard about the subject. “Now, not all that $2 trillion is cash; some is invested in real subsidiaries doing real things, but about 40 per cent is cash,” he said.
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Courthouse News Service
July 26, 2013
re: Rob Saltzman
Rob Saltzman was quoted about the LAPD's legal affairs division, which has been costing the city tens of millions of dollars in employment litigation lawsuits, “Nobody's asking you to maintain duplicate records. We're asking you about risk management efforts to avoid the problems of the future," Saltzman said.
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The New York Times
July 24, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about a novel tax strategy considered by Dell. Kleinbard called the strategy “a twist on the old corporation inversion that relies on the fact that U.S. companies can dress up their foreign entities in different costumes for different tax purposes.”
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Reuters
July 24, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about corporate taxation and “Stateless Income,” a term he coined in a 2007 research paper. "I have not heard the IRS use the term before,” he said.
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CBS News
July 20, 2013
Jody Armour was interviewed about protests in the wake of the Trayvon Martin case.
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Courier-Post
July 20, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about a hold on the nomination of Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey. “In this instance, it is clear why McCain was so frustrated. He went to Syria and met with the rebel forces. McCain favors stronger military action. He is looking for (and maybe believes he has, if he were to speak freely) a supporter and an ally in Dempsey, a voice at the table advocating for and not merely explaining the military option,” she wrote.
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Odessa American
July 20, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about protests following the Trayvon Martin case. “If this administration wants to do something to get race out of the criminal justice system, then they are going to have to start at pre-school, and do it. Break the correlation between being young and male and black and in trouble with the law. Break that, and you don’t need to loot the local Wal-Mart’s. Don’t break it, and the looting will confirm — and not undermine — a tragic verdict,” she said.
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KFWB-AM
July 19, 2013
): Jody Armour participated in a live discussion about the Trayvon Martin case and national race relations. The story noted Armour is the author of "Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America." "Your heart could go out to George Zimmerman or Trayvon Martin," Armour said, "I think rather than looking to either as a scapegoat, we need to look at what took us as a society to this point."
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Associated Press
July 17, 2013
re: Tom Lyon
Thomas Lyon was quoted about a California bill that would expand the window of time child abuse victims could sue their perpetrators, "It's hard to defend a case when it happened decades ago," he said, "But why not give them their day in court?"
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The Huffington Post
July 17, 2013
re: Jack Lerner
Jack Lerner and Daria Roithmayr were interviewed about the power of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. “I think this bill is really interesting and encouraging. I’d like to see some kind of provisions for an adversarial process. What country is this that were actually debating the validity of a secret court issuing secret opinions that impact every American without any adversarial process,” Lerner commented."The reason that the FISA court is being compared to the Supreme court is because there is no review. So with regard to those cases that come before the FISA court, the Chief Justice of the FISA court is the final word," Roithmayr said.
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Voice of Russia
July 17, 2013
Jody Armour was interviewed about the George Zimmerman trial.
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KCRW-FM
July 17, 2013
Jody Armour was interviewed by Warren Olney on, “Which Way L.A.?” about racial profiling and the Trayvon Martin case.
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Bloomberg Businessweek
July 16, 2013
re: Edward McCaffery
Edward McCaffery was quoted about how current tax laws make joint filing a practice of the past, “In a nutshell, the bias of the tax system is against two worker marriages with children. It’s less about marriage penalties and marriage bonuses and more about a bias against secondary earners—male or female,” he said.
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BNA Daily Tax Report
July 15, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward D. Kleinbard was quoted about the outcome of ‘tax-shaming’ corporations, “But that occurs only if the public is on board with the idea of pressing companies into paying taxes the companies made a legal effort to avoid; in the United States, it is hard to whip up public outrage over issues like tax shelters and transfer pricing…We don't have the same kind of public engagement in the United States with respect to these issues,” Kleinbard said.
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Variety
July 13, 2013
Jody Armour was quoted about George Zimmerman suing NBC and its reporters for defamation. KPCC-FM's "Take Two” interviewed Armour about what the Zimmerman verdict means for race relations in the U.S. “Zimmerman is almost certainly going to fall into the classification” of a public figure, raising the bar for plaintiffs, in that they have to prove knowledge that they knew that the information was false or had reckless disregard for the truth,” he said.
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KPCC-FM
July 12, 2013
re: David Cruz
David Cruz and Daria Roithmayr of the USC Gould School about Prop 8 supporters asking California's Supreme Court to deny gay marriage licenses. "A state can’t just decide that it’s not going to obey a federal court until the decision is decided at a higher level," she said. "That just cannot be allowed." Similarly David Cruz said "As long as Prop 8 is not officially repealed, and we don’t have a definitive U.S. Supreme Court ruling on its unconstitutionality, there is always going to be legal uncertainty.”
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Leader & Times
July 10, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich wrote a column about the jobs of flight attendants.
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CNN Money
July 10, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward D. Kleinbard was quoted about the U.S. debate over corporate taxes, “It's a myth that all the money is ‘trapped’ abroad. And it's not clear just how much of a spur it would be to the economy if it were repatriated. As it is, a significant portion of that $1.8 trillion is already at work in the United States albeit not necessarily in the best way for the economy,” Kleinbard noted.
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Leader & Times
July 10, 2013
re: USC Gould School of Law
Susan Estrich wrote a column about the jobs of flight attendants.
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PBS
July 6, 2013
re: Elyn Saks
PBS News highlighted Elyn Saks and her experiences with mental illness in the documentary called “A New State of Mind: Ending the Stigma of Mental Illness,” narrated by Glenn Close. The film interviewed Saks about becoming a successful academic despite her schizophrenia. “There are a lot of misconceptions about those with schizophrenia – that we can’t work, that we can’t have relationships,” she said. The documentary featured the USC Gould School and USC campus.
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CBS News
July 3, 2013
re: Heidi Rummel
Los Angeles affiliate KCBS-TV highlighted the USC Gould School Post-Conviction Project, which has represented Glenda Virgil for more than 14 years. She was convicted of killing her abusive husband after he attacked her with a shovel. USC Gould School student Julia Deixler handled Virgil's parole hearing. “To me, it is obvious that Glenda Virgil does not pose a danger to anyone,” Deixler said.
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NPR News
July 3, 2013
re: USC Gould School of Law
David Cruz was interviewed about the recent Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage. Cruz was also quoted by CBS Radio, Fox Radio, CBS Radio Los Angeles affiliate KNX-AM and two stories on KABC-TV.
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Daily Journal
July 3, 2013
re: David Cruz
David Cruz was quoted about same sex equality issues saying that said that because state authorities are defending the conversion therapy ban, the law's backers should be able to participate. "It's not totally settled, but most courts say that if there is [a dispute between parties with real stakes in the matter], then others can participate in that litigation, too, without having to establish standing on their own," Cruz said.
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Daily Journal
July 3, 2013
re: Rebecca Lonergan
Rebecca Lonergan was quoted about FISA cases in years past, "This historical jurisdictional preference impacts which judges are likely to be chosen to sit on the FISA court, resulting in a [geographic] imbalance…This imbalance may change in the future because of the more recent shift away from Department of Defense type issues towards an emphasis on electronic surveillance-related national security issues, given that many of the companies involved in the electronic surveillance and high tech industries are based on the West Coast,” Lonergan stated.
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The Richmond Register
July 3, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich wrote a column about Sen. Diane Feinstein and her defense of a controversial National Security Agency program.
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Daily Journal
July 2, 2013
re: Mark Litwak
Mark Litwak wrote an article about the legal issues that may arise from creating fictional characters in film, “If a fictional character is loosely based on a real-life individual, and the public cannot identify the real-life individual from the context in which the fictional character is portrayed, there is little risk of liability,” Litwak said.
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Reuters
July 2, 2013
re: Daria Roithmayr
Daria Roithmayr was quoted about the recent Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage.
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The Marietta Daily Journal
July 2, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich wrote a column about immigration reform.
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The Marietta Daily Journal
July 2, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
): Susan Estrich wrote a column about immigration reform
