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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MInnesota Pubic Radio
May 13, 2013
re: David Cruz
David Cruz was interviewed on "The Daily Circuit" about legislation to legalize same-sex marriage in Minnesota. Minnesota would be the first Midwestern state to pass legislation legalizing same-sex marriage and the 12th state overall to allow it. Iowa has allowed same-sex marriages since a 2009 court ruling.
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ProPublica
May 11, 2013
re: Alexander Capron
Alexander Capron was quoted in an investigative story about Medicare Part D. "Testing new treatment is part of scientific innovation. But when one moves beyond a single patient or maybe a couple of patients....you're basically saying 'I'm doing a study.'" The story also ran in the Washington Post.
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Huffington Post
May 9, 2013
Jody Armour was interviewed about Charles Ramsey and his appearances in the press. Ramsey rescued three Cleveland women from ten years of captivity.
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NBC News
May 8, 2013
re: Heidi Rummel
Heidi Rummel was interviewed about the legal issues surrounding the Cleveland kidnapping case, including securing a guilty verdict for fetal homicide. She said that prosecutors typically have to show that a killer clearly meant to murder the unborn baby by assaulting the mother in a way that would trigger an early end to the pregnancy. "The hardest part, I imagine, would be proving causation - you have to show the actions actually caused the death. And years after the fact that might be somewhat of a challenge," said Rummel, a former federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. and in Los Angeles. "We don't know how far along (the victim) was. It's hard to know for sure if it was a miscarriage or not. But the intent seems pretty clear based on the facts I've read."
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Washington Post
May 6, 2013
re: Michael Brennan
Michael Brennan was interviewed about about a legal case involving lifetime probation for a man on parole who was caught possessing a firearm. Brennan said he’s never seen lifetime probation used in such a case. “The guy should go to jail for a while, maybe a couple of years,” Brennan said. “I just don’t see anybody getting a life sentence.”
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New York Times
May 5, 2013
re: Lee Epstein
The study "How Business Fares in the Supreme Court" by Lee Epstein and colleagues was featured. Published in The Minnesota Law Review, the study found that the John G. Roberts Jr. Court is friendlier to business than any court since World War II. The study also ranked the 36 justices who served on the Court over those 65 years by the proportion of their pro-business votes; all five of the current court's more conservative members were in the top 10. "But the study's most striking finding was that the two justices most likely to vote in favor of business interests since 1946 are the most recent conservative additions to the court, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., both appointed by President George W. Bush," according to the article. The Huffington Post, The Atlanta Journal Constitution and National Law Journal also featured stories about the study.
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New York Times
May 2, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was interviewed about “stateless income,” a technique multinational companies use to avoid taxes in their home country.
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El Mundo TV
May 2, 2013
re: Rebecca Lonergan
Rebecca Lonergan was interviewed by by Mundo about the Boston bombing suspect’s wife’s possible involvement in the case.
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Odessa American
April 30, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about the movie “Girl Rising.” “You cannot make a better investment in the developing world than educating a girl. It is that simple. If you don’t understand this, or if you do and you want to feel that there is more to the world than bombs exploding and ricin in envelopes and petty politicians playing parliamentary games, go to your local theater and let them touch your heart,” she said.
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KPCC-FM
April 30, 2013
Jody Armour was interviewed about the star studded trial underway for Michael Jackson’s wrongful death suit. “They’re going to bring out everything they possibly can. Anything that’s already out there and anything they’ve been able to dredge up because both sides are going to try to demonize the other. AEG said in its opening statement this case is about the choices we make and the personal responsibility that comes with them. Their stance is that Michael Jackson was an adult, he made adult choices and those choices hurt him and now his family is seeking to shift the responsibility to someone else for purposes of digging deep in someone else’ pocket. That is going to be their theme throughout the case,” he said.
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CNN
April 29, 2013
CNN interviewed Jody Armour about the court case over singer Michael Jackson’s death. KPCC-FM’s "The gist of the plaintiff's claim against AEG is that you've controlled Dr. Murray and you used your control over Dr. Murray to pressure him into taking unnecessary and excessive risks with his patient Michael Jackson leading to Michael Jackson's death," said Armour. “AirTalk” also interviewed Armour about the case.
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New Republic
April 29, 2013
re: Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein's book "The Behavior of Federal Judges," co-written with Richard Posner and William Landes was reviewed by Cass Sunstein. "The resulting book counts as the most detailed and elaborate quantitative analysis of the federal judiciary to date," Sunstein wrote. He also wrote, "Esptein, Landes, and Posner have performed an important service in establishing the truths, and the limits, of both legalism and realism."
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Los Angeles Times
April 28, 2013
Jody Armour was quoted in regards to the court case over singer Michael Jackson’s death. “The basic standoff is going to be Michael Jackson being the author of his own demise, versus a profit-maximizing, greedy even, commercial enterprise exercising its control," he said.
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Los Angeles Times
April 28, 2013
re: Niels W. Frenzen
Niels Frenzen was quoted about a bill that would allow non-citizeen legal residents to serve on California juries. "There is not often that great a divide of knowledge between immigrants and ...citizens,” he said.
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The Washington Times
April 23, 2013
Michael Shapiro was quoted about higher insurance rates that come with smoking. “Smoking is a voluntary action that hugely increases risk on a large scale and is, arguably, justifiably focused on to the exclusion of other risks,” he said.
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National Law Journal
April 22, 2013
Dean Robert K. Rasmussen was interviewed about a proposal to require new admittees to the bar at least 15 units of practical-skills training. Requiring a set number of hours in law school could result in some unintended consequences if the bar narrowly defines what classes qualify, said Rasmussen. Students could miss out on classes they want to take if they have to shoehorn a certain number of mandated courses into their schedule. "Students need some room to figure out what they want," he said.
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Los Angeles Times
April 21, 2013
Jody Armour was quoted about the law enforcement community’s impressions of crime-related reality TV. “It’s so important that the public sees law enforcement as legitimate and credible,” Armour said. “There’s a tremendous price to pay when that confidence is lost.”
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BBC Radio
April 20, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted in regards to aggressive tax avoidance by major corporations. “I don’t blame the maggots that eat the spoiled meat for doing so, I say let’s build a proper refrigerator in the first place. We know that US firms collectively have ordered something on the order of 1.7 trillion dollars of low tax overseas income and are adding to that at the rate of a couple hundred billion dollars a year,” he said.
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Mashable
April 19, 2013
re: Josh Lockman
Josh Lockman was quoted about the Iranian government’s approach to breaking news stories about the country. "It's a trend of completely preposterous claims on issues that range from absurd, monkey in space, to serious, the nuclear program," Lockman says. "This latest incident only underscores the absurdity of claims that the regime in Tehran has made on a variety of issues."
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Odessa American
April 18, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about a complicated legal case. In a hearing earlier this week, the judge presiding over the trial in Colorado of accused mass murderer James Holmes deferred deciding whether Fox News reporter Jana Winter should be forced into the “Hobson’s choice” of revealing her confidential sources or going to jail for six months,” she said.
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Reuters
April 17, 2013
re: Ehud Kamar
Ehud Kamar was quoted about the possible sale of hulu. “It’s a definite conflict of interest,” he said in regards to Hulu having re-engaged Guggenheim to handle another sale attempt.
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Fox News
April 16, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich was interviewed about a bipartisan bill on background checks for gun purchases.
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New York Times
April 15, 2013
re: Edward McCaffery
An op-ed by Edward McCaffery ran about a tax bias against two-earner families. McCaffery wrote that for the poor, this bias makes marriage less attractive; for the wealthy, it reflects a culture in which one spouse stayed at home. He added that a fix for the problem would be costly but not difficult: “It is, analytically, easy enough to get rid of marriage penalties: treat all people as single, as most countries around the world now do.”
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CNN
April 15, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
An op-ed ran by Edward Kleinbard about the three ways to relieve tax hangovers. “Tax time will never be pleasant, but making form preparation easier, understanding better how government spending buys useful goods and services, and re-examining the tax expenditures in our tax code at least can mitigate our tax pain,” Kleinbard wrote.
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NPR News
April 15, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about tax code reform, a subject on which he recently testified at a U.S. Senate hearing. “Well you just have to put prejudices to one side and look at the actual numbers. In fact the United State is not a high tax country; in 2012 it was the lowest tax country in the world among developed economies. We collect taxes in ways that are particularly unpleasant to all the pain we put people through on tax days but the fact is this is a very low tax country, we have a lot of fundamental misconception,” he said.
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CQ Weekly
April 15, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about Chairman of the House Ways and Mean Committee Dave Camp's proposals for alterations in the taxation of financial instruments. "It's easy to make great generalizations about what the tax system should be, but the fact is that the tax code is an enormously complex model of all economic activity," Kleinbard said. "It just cannot be overstated how difficult it is to write tax legislation, and this process is the right process to get higher quality."
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NPR News
April 15, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was interviewed on "Background Briefing" with Ian Masters about reforming the tax code to make it fairer and more progressive.
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Northwest Public
April 15, 2013
re: Elyn Saks
Elyn Saks was interviewed about her experiences living with schizophrenia. The story featured Saks’ TED talk on the subject, noting that she is a mental health law scholar and writer who advocates for the rights of mentally ill people. Saks said that the USC Gould School is a very supportive workplace. “This is a place that not only accommodates my needs, but actually embraces them,” she added. “It’s also a very intellectually stimulating place and occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.”
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Daily Journal
April 13, 2013
re: Brian Klein
An op-ed ran by Brian Klein about the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s approach toward virtual currencies like BitCoin.
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Daily Journal
April 13, 2013
re: Gillian Hadfield
Gillian Hadfield was quoted about the legal costs of divorce cases being prohibitive for many people.
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Odessa American
April 13, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about the U.S. Court of Appeals forthe District of Columbia Circuit. The D.C. circuit struggles to keep up with an enormous and critically important docket of cases, causing delays on hugely important legal issues. Far from elevating the rule of law, the knee-jerk filibuster of highly qualified lawyers debases the very foundation of a system that depends on the respect of those who may disagree with the results of a particular decision. If it’s nothing but politics, why obey,” she said.
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CBS
April 12, 2013
re: Dan Simon
Dan Simon was interviewed about a Long Beach woman who falsely accused football standout Brian Banks of sexual assault. She is now facing legal action and possible criminal charges after suing the Long Beach Unified School District for a reported $750,000 to $1.5 million. “The district may have difficulty getting the money back given issues related to statues of limitations,” Simon said. “Money may not be the only reason the district is pursuing the case. In this case certainly, the symbolic value, the vindication the reputational effect, something of an expression of the values of the district and hopefully a deterrent of other cases.”
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Riverside Press-Enterprise
April 12, 2013
re: Heidi Rummel
A story ran about an effort by USC Gould School of Law’s Post-Conviction Justice Project to free a woman serving 25 years to life. A Riverside judge has ordered the District Attorney to review Hilda Riggs’ sentence because she was a victim of abuse. California law allows reconsideration of abuse victims convicted of violent felonies. “Had Ms. Riggs been given that consideration by the DA’s office, or understood that she could have expert testimony at her trial, then the outcome for her would have been different,” said Heidi Rummel, co-director of USC Gould School of Law’s Post-Conviction Justice Project, which is representing Riggs along with attorneys from the Los Angeles law firm of O’Melveny & Myers.
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American Public Media
April 11, 2013
re: Nancy Staudt
“Marketplace” interviewed Nancy Staudt about taxes on firearms. “Individuals who want to own guns, that’s fine,” she says, noting many constitutional rights are not limitless. “The Second Amendment allows you to own guns, but there are certain costs to society of owning that gun, and you’ll need to help pay for those.”
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Odessa American
April 10, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about late Supreme Court reporter Tony Lewis. “If you were to ask me who inspired me to become a lawyer, two people would jump to mind. The first, not surprisingly, was my father, a sole practitioner in Lynn, Mass…who never made any money but loved his work. The second was Tony Lewis, a man I did not meet until decades later but whose work I devoured,” she said.
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The New Republic
April 10, 2013
re: Lee Epstein
A research study by Lee Epstein and colleagues was featured about the statistics of court decisions. Epstein’s study found that political ideology plays a bigger role as one moves up the judicial hierarchy. Lower courts see much less partisan decision-making.
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CNN
April 9, 2013
re: Edward McCaffery
An op-ed ran by Edward McCaffery about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s taxes. “ We cannot all be Warren Buffetts, of course, but being Mark Zuckerberg isn’t too shabby, even with that more than a billion dollar tax bill coming due,” he said.
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Südwestrundfunk
April 9, 2013
Jody Armour was interviewed about legal issues surrounding the death of pop star Michael Jackson.
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Tax Notes
April 8, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard’s work was cited by Edwin Visser, deputy director-general of taxation of the Dutch Ministry of Finance. "Stateless income is the big problem now," Visser, who is involved in the OECD project. "Stateless income distorts investment decisions and undermines voluntary compliance."
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Associated Press
April 5, 2013
re: David Cruz
David Cruz was quoted about the same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Cruz said that even if the legal fight continues, a campaign asking voters to repeal Proposition 8 would probably cut it short. "The more time that passes, presumably the greater support for equal rights becomes," he said. The story noted that Cruz is a constitutional law professor, who attended the arguments.
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Record Searchlight
April 3, 2013
re: Elyn Saks
Elyn Saks, author of “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness,” was highlighted about her struggles with schizophrenia. Saks, recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, is currently directing two studies on high-functioning people with schizophrenia. Saks has found her working environment at USC to be very supportive, but this isn’t the case everywhere, the story stated. “The longer you’ve been a professional the better able you will be to challenge the view that you can’t do the work you’ve been doing,” Saks said. The Record Searchlight noted that she used her MacArthur grant to found the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy and Ethics at USC, a think tank that fosters interdisciplinary and collaborative research among scholars and policymakers around issues of mental illness and mental health. The institute will host a symposium on the criminalization of mental illness next week.
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Fox News
April 2, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
“America’s News HQ” interviewed Susan Estrich about the same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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CNN
April 1, 2013
Jody Armour was interviewed about the lawsuit filed by singer Michael Jackson’s family against promoter Anschutz Entertainment Group
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Los Angeles Times
April 1, 2013
re: USC Gould School of Law
The percentage of USC Gould School graduates who found full time, long-term jobs as lawyers within nine months of graduating was cited. USC Gould School was ranked the third highest rate among California law schools.
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Manteca Bulletin
March 30, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
An op-ed ran by Susan Estrich about the costs of the Obama Health care plan.” When I asked a friend to explain what looked to me like an outrageous hospital bill, including charges for everyday items I could have bought for half as much at the drug store, the answer was simple: The cost of “my” supplies effectively included the cost of services and supplies for those who could never pay for them,” she said.
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Athens Banner-Herald
March 30, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
An op-ed ran by Susan Estrich about eavesdropping and the public’s right to privacy. “I can’t begin to imagine how many raunchy, tasteless, incorrect comments I’ve made to companions sitting next to me at boring meetings — about the speakers, the subjects, how creepy some guy or girl in the room is, etc. — without once worrying that I would be the subject of a national controversy,” she said.
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Fox News
March 30, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich was interviewed about Congress’ decision to reverse cuts to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Daily Journal
March 28, 2013
re: David Cruz
David Cruz was interviewed about how the Supreme Court may rule on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. “I’m pretty confident, based on discussion at oral argument, that there will be a majority to hold that BLAG doesn’t have standing,” he said, "but I don't think we heard from enough of the justices about the solicitor general's standing."
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National Law Journal
March 27, 2013
re: David Cruz
David Cruz was quoted about the Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. “The Justices expressed great skepticism and little to no support for the notion that the House committee has standing to litigate this case. There was also significant doubt about whether the U.S. government could appeal since the President and Attorney General agree with Edie Windsor that DOMA is unconstitutional,” Cruz said.
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Christian Science Monitor
March 26, 2013
re: Rebecca Brown
Rebecca Brown was interviewed about the two same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Possible outcomes from Tuesday’s arguments range from the case being dismissed all the way up to a broad ruling on whether or not there is a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry. “They’ve heard all the arguments, now they will go away and sort through them,” she said.
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KPCC-FM
March 26, 2013
Jody Armour was interviewed on "Air Talk" with Larry Mantle about the U.S. Supreme Court arguments on California's Prop. 8.
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ABC News
March 25, 2013
re: David Cruz
David Cruz, who traveled to Washington, D.C. to hear the U.S. Supreme Court arguments on California's Prop. 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, was interviewed by numerous media outlets about the hearings. He was a guest on NPR's "To the Point" with Warren Olney, KPCC's "It Takes Two" and "Air Talk" with Larry Mantle as well as interviewed on KPCC and KCRW's newscasts. He appeared on NBC, CBS, KCAL and the CBS Washington and Los Angeles affiliates. He was also interviewed by the Associated Press, Agence France- Presse, Politico, L.A. Weekly, Daily Journal, National Law Journal and KNX-Radio.
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ABC News
March 25, 2013
re: David Cruz
David Cruz was interviewed about the same-sex marriage cases – California’s Proposition 8 and Defense of Marriage Act - before the Supreme Court this week. Although the court could rule more narrowly, Prop. 8 asks the big question of whether there is a fundamental right to same-sex marriage. “Although it may sometimes seem like a technicality, the Supreme Court wants to ensure that the federal courts only decide real, concrete disputes, brought by people that have been injured by the laws they want to challenge,” Cruz said.
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Fox News
March 25, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich was interviewed about a “vote-a-rama” in the U.S. Senate.
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L.A. Weekly
March 21, 2013
re: Gregory Keating
Greg Keating was interviewed about the "Firefighters Rule," a legal principle regarding the assumption of risk taken on by firefighters. "The idea behind the rule,is that the firefighter has already been compensated in advance for this risk through very generous disability benefits and health and retirement benefits."
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Odessa American
March 21, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about the politics of cancer advocacy. “Do we really need another color of ribbon? Do we need someone to do for ovarian cancer what Michael Milken did for prostate cancer — that is, create a political movement around it? Why isn’t it enough to hope that doctors doing their jobs, aided by a new health care act that will encourage electronic health records and allow for easier monitoring and comparisons on a large-scale basis, will solve the problem,” she said.
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The Wall Street Journal
March 21, 2013
re: Scott Altman
Scott Altman was interviewed in a story about the American Academy of Pediatrics’ support of same-sex marriage. Altman cautioned against the AAP's rationale that marriage is necessary for gay parents to receive all the legal rights accorded to heterosexual parents. Altman said that in states such as California, rights for domestic partners closely mirror those of married couples.
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Associated Press
March 21, 2013
re: Rebecca Lonergan
Rebecca Lonergan was quoted about former Bell city manager Robert Rizzo’s trial. She noted making Rizzo the villain may have had some impact on the mixed verdict. “It’s a lot easier to point the finger at Rizzo, who received the most ill-gotten gains. It gave them a bigger bad guy who wasn't sitting next to them, “she said.
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KPCC-FM
March 20, 2013
re: Dan Simon
Dan Simon was quoted about the verdict in the trial of former Bell city manager Robert Rizzo. Rizzo is facing 69 counts on a range of corruption allegations including misappropriating public funds. “We do know that juries are not very predictable. I’d be kind of careful of drawing too many inferences from one case to the next,” he said.
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information.dk
March 18, 2013
re: Niels W. Frenzen
Niels Frenzen was interviewed about the risk that migrants at sea will face if returned to third countries without an opportunity to seek asylum. "My concern is how Frontex will use the drones' expanded capabilities. If a boat with migrants is identified outside of Libyan territorial waters, will Frontex use the information to send out a patrol boat and intercept the migrants to bring them to the EU in order to consider asylum claims? This is hard for me to imagine. Or will Frontex instead ask Libyan authorities to intercept the boat? In other words, do drones present the risk of a more advanced pushback practice," he said. The story mentioned that Frenzen has years of experience as an asylum law attorney.
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New York Times
March 17, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about budget proposals put forward last week in which both Democrats and Republicans called for scrubbing billions of dollars' worth of popular deductions, loopholes, preferential rates and credits. The two sides are sharply divided on what should happen to any revenue raise. “In the corporate code, expenditures are just a hidden, ersatz, Soviet- style five year plan," Kleinbard said. "We would never contemplate a world in which the government said 'We're going to write out checks to Nascar because it's an important resource and we're going to pay for it!' People would say, 'They're out of their mind!'"
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The Boston Globe
March 16, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about tax breaks won by the Washington lobbying industry and how they have concluded that it is relatively cheap to buy political influence. “What we’re doing is running a Soviet-style, five-year industrial plan for those industries that are clever enough in their lobbying to ask all of us to subsidize their business profits. These are perfect examples of Congress putting its thumb on the scale of the free market. I’ll be damned if I know why I should be subsiding Whirlpool,” he said.
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KPCC-FM
March 11, 2013
re: Alexander Capron
Alexander Capron was interviewed about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s attempted ban on large, sugary drinks. "The problem with that particular ban is a practical one, more than whether it has a justification," he said. "There's nothing that prevents [consumers] from buying another drink or getting a refill."
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Daily Journal
March 9, 2013
re: Mark Litwak
An op-ed ran by Mark Litwak about confusing copyright issues surrounding the character of Sherlock Holmes. With many of the Holmes stories falling within the public domain, the Arthur Conan Doyle estate has been receiving licensing fees for the characters that may have been unnecessary. “While Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant detective, even he may find it difficult to sort out the conflicting copyright laws of different nations,” he said.
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The New York Times
March 8, 2013
re: Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein was cited regarding the prior jobs of recent U.S. Supreme Court nominees.
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The Washington Post
March 7, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about corporate taxes. “The corporate system is broken and it’s broken primarily because of international.”
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Odessa American
March 7, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about the politics of sequestration. “In fundamental ways, this does seem like a Washington game. At some point, sooner or later, some kind of deal will be made that some of the politicians and talking heads will praise and others will condemn. But that will only happen after the various elected and appointed officials involved play the usual blame games, up the ante with the old-fashioned “chicken” face-off and wait for the other side to blink.” “I can’t predict who will “win,” but I can tell you who will lose: anybody who really cares about respect for government, for Congress and the presidency, and for the value of politics,” she said.
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Odessa American
March 5, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about prosecutorial indiscretion. “Faith in our system requires that the fight between prosecution and defense not necessarily be equal, which it rarely is (rich defendants can often outlawyer the government, and poor defendants almost never do), but that it at least be fair. In Calhoun's case, it wasn't. Pure and simple,” she said.
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Bloomberg News
March 5, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard's testimony before a Senate subcommittee was covered. In an interview after the testimony, he was quoted about a need to eliminate tax subsidies for businesses. “The corporate system is broken and it’s broken primarily because of international,” said Kleinbard.
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Huffington Post
March 1, 2013
Jody Armour was interviewed about an allegedly racist police handbook that the North Chicago Police Department issued to trainee officers.
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The Washington Post
February 28, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard’s research was cited by Ezra Klein in a story about predicted increases in America’s over 65 populations, and how the country’s tax code needs to adjust. He pointed out that the share of the country over 65 will increase by a third in the next 10 years alone.
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China Central Television
February 28, 2013
re: Josh Lockman
Josh Lockman was interviewed about Iranian nuclear talks. The talks now lead the way for a productive proposal that could be reached and will allow for face saving for the Iranian regime, he said. “The right monetary mechanisms need to be put into place where the IEA is allowed to have stringent monitoring of Iran’s nuclear energy program so that if Iran continues to enrich uranium at that 20 percent level, it is not allowed to divert it for weaponized purposes,” he said.
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Chicago Tribune
February 28, 2013
re: Vered Yakovee
Vered Yakovee was quoted about a case involving an Idaho man, who lost an eye after being hit by a ball during a minor league baseball game and has been allowed by the Idaho Supreme Court to move forward with a lawsuit against stadium owners and the team. “When it comes to rules such as the baseball rule, very few are absolute. This case carves out yet another exception to the Baseball Rule Limiting liability,” she said.
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Odessa American
February 27, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about the death of former police officer Christopher Dorner. “My friends from out of town want to know what I thought of President Obama’s State of the Union address. The answer is simple. I live in Los Angeles. I didn’t see or hear the State of the Union address. I was watching the Christopher Dorner manhunt,” she said.
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ETTV
February 27, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard commented on the debt ceiling. "So imagine that Congress tells you, 'You must go to a restaurant and buy dinner' and you do. The bill comes, and then Congress refuses to permit you to pay by credit card for the bill for the meal that you just ate because Congress told you to and that's exactly what the debt ceiling is. Increasing the debt ceiling was a routine matter. More recently the Republican Party has been using it to make a political statement. It is a complete waste of time. It is a complete waste of resources. It is political theatre and nothing but political theatre," he said.
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Fox News
February 27, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich was interviewed about the use of mini drones within American borders.
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Venture Beat
February 27, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was interviewed you in a story about tech companies that have escape $225 billion in taxes as Senate calls for reform.
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The National Law Journal
February 26, 2013
re: USC Gould School of Law
USC Gould School was included in the list of Go-To Law Schools. The list featured the schools whose graduates are most popular with hiring firms. University of Southern California Gould School of Law was ranked 16th.
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Odessa American
February 18, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column ran by Susan Estrich about her friendship with a neighbor. “As I’ve gotten older, and living alone, you look for women who make the future seem a little less terrifying; who hold on to their identity, play the hand they are dealt with spunk, find joy in their homes and their neighbors. That’s an especially big trick in Los Angeles, where no one is supposed to get (or at least look) old, and where many people don’t meet their neighbors until they find themselves standing outside together during an earthquake,” she said.
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CBS
February 15, 2013
Jody Armour was interviewed about the $1 million reward for suspected killer, Christopher Dorner.. Armour said a legal argument could be made to justify a payout, even though Dorner died in a fire and wasn’t captured alive. “We’re going to get into a semantic dispute over what ‘capture’ means,” said Armour, adding that the city’s credibility is on the line. Not paying the reward could also having a chilling effect, dissuading witnesses from coming forward in future cases where a reward is offered.
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Wall Street Journal
February 15, 2013
re: Lee Epstein
Research by Lee Epstein was cited regarding the class backgrounds of U.S. Supreme Court Justices. "Many Supreme Court Justices are advantaged from birth. Some 57% of Justices grew up in upper- or upper-middle-class households, while 37% grew up in middle- or lower-middle-class households," she said.
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CBS News
February 15, 2013
re: Dan Simon
"CBS This Morning" interviewed Dan Simon about the $1 million reward that was offered in the pursuit of former police officer Christopher Dorner. Asked if it's better for public relations to give away the money, Simon said, "I think so. ... I don't think the city should hide behind legalistic terminology."
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Bloomberg News
February 15, 2013
re: Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein's new book, "Behavioral of Federal Judges," was cited in regards to conservative and liberal judges in the Supreme Court. The book reveals that the current court is skewed to the right, at least by historical standards. It has three of the most conservative justices in the last 76 years, and they have no liberal counterparts. Epstein and her co-authors also find that Republican presidents -- at least since Richard Nixon -- have generally succeeded in appointing the more conservative justices, while Democratic presidents have generally succeeded in appointing the more liberal ones.
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IO9
February 13, 2013
re: Elyn Saks
Elyn Saks, author of "The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness," was featured. She spoke about her experiences with schizophrenia, and why the disease shouldn't prevent people from living accomplished lives. Saks and colleagues at USC and UCLA have designed a study of high-functioning schizophrenics in the Los Angeles area - MDs, PhDs, CEOs and others. "It would interesting to know what the stats are on how many people with schizophrenia are so-called 'high functioning' professionals," Saks said.
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The Bay Citizen
February 13, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about corporate tax avoidance."What it demonstrates is that tech firms in particular have very low worldwide rates, and their demands for a more competitive U.S. tax system ring hollow," he said.
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CNN
February 8, 2013
re: Edward McCaffery
An op-ed ran by Edward McCaffery about marginal tax rates on the working poor. He noted that some low-income taxpayers face rates approaching 90 percent as they lose welfare benefits; this has an adverse effect on marriage and home lives. “Politicians on both the left and right criticize the poor for not having more stable marriages, but they conveniently ignore the simple but brutal fact that the poor cannot afford to marry,” he said
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The New York Times
February 7, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about a derivatives tax proposal. "The intelligent, courageous, and sorely needed substantive reforms in the proposal," he said.
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The Washington Post
February 6, 2013
re: Rebecca Lonergan
Rebecca Lonergan was quoted in an Associated Press story about the Los Angeles Police Department reviewing files kept by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. "The LAPD is right to review the files for new information, but it's unlikely anything they find will fall within the statute of limitations in state or federal court," she said.
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Odessa American
February 4, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column by Susan Estrich ran about gay marriage. "The fact that gay couples do not have unintended pregnancies is hardly a reason they should not be allowed to marry. If only those who could have children were allowed to marry, there would be no reason to allow any woman over a certain age to marry.
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The Hollywood Reporter
February 2, 2013
re: Larry Stein
Hollywood professionals are working at different universities, such as USC Gould School of Law. The universities are aiming at giving students insight into industry trends and what it's really like to work in the entertainment field. The story noted that entertainment lawyer Larry Stein teaches at the USC Gould School.
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CBS News
February 1, 2013
re: USC Gould School of Law
Los Angeles affiliate KCBS-TV featured a group of USC Gould School students who are working for the parole of a terminally ill woman who has been imprisoned for 25 years for killing her abusive husband. "He came at her with a shovel and she shot him once with a shotgun," said Heidi Rummel, co-director of the school's Post-Conviction Justice Project. KFWB-Radio also ran a story on the PCJP's effort.
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NBC
January 31, 2013
re: Jack Lerner
Jack Lerner was interviewed by the Los Angeles affiliate about the widely-publicized hoax against Notre Dame Athlete Manti Te’o, which has prompted reminders that user’s Internet presence is vulnerable. “Online privacy laws may be changing as privacy becomes more of a concern… There are anti-stalking statutes. There are also criminal statutes that prohibit impersonation here in California and that prohibiting identity theft and she can also bring lawsuits, civil lawsuits," he said.
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NPR
January 30, 2013
re: Elyn Saks
"Talk of the Nation" featured Elyn Saks who discussed her battle with schizophrenia. Saks said that when she was diagnosed, doctors told her she would never hold a job. "It's not one-size-fits-all, and I think it's a mistake prematurely to tell people to lower their sights, lower their expectations," Saks said.
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The New York Times
January 30, 2013
re: Gillian Hadfield
Gillian Hadfield was quoted about the demand for lawyers. "We have a significant mismatch between demand and supply. It's not a problem of producing too many lawyers. Actually, we have an exploding demand for both ordinary folk lawyers and big corporate ones," she said.
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CBS News
January 30, 2013
re: Niels W. Frenzen
Los Angeles affiliate KNX-AM interviewed Niels Frenzen about an immigration reform bill proposed by members of Congress.
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New York Times
January 27, 2013
re: Elyn Saks
Elyn Saks published an op-ed in the New York Times about becoming a successful academic despite her struggle with schizophrenia. Saks wrote that when she was 28 years old, doctors gave her a grave prognosis, however, today, she is a chaired professor at USC Gould and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant. “I don’t want to sound like a Pollyanna about schizophrenia; mental illness imposes real limitations, and it’s important not to romanticize it,” Saks wrote. “But the seeds of creative thinking may sometimes be found in mental illness, and people underestimate the power of the human brain to adapt and to create.” She also highlighted a study she is conducting on highly successful people battling mental illness.
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CNN
January 25, 2013
re: Edward McCaffery
An op-ed by Edward McCaffery ran about golfer Phil Mickelson considering leaving California because of high tax rates. “The problem0and it is the same problem as with Mitt’s taxes- is that we are taxing the wrong thing, in the wrong way. In sum, we tax work, not wealth. This is backward,” he said.
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The Wall Street Journal
January 23, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was cited regarding corporate tax havens. "There is a more permanent reason for the decline that has to do with globalization: an increasing share of profits is now earned abroad and taxed more lightly than domestic profits," he said.
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The Wall Street Journal
January 22, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted on the $1.7 trillion that American companies say they have indefinitely invested overseas yet a lot of it is actually sitting here in the U.S. Kleinbard said there is a misperception that companies' excess cash is inaccessible, "somehow held in gold coins and guarded by Rumpelstiltskin." "If it is a U.S.-dollar asset, that means ultimately it is in the U.S. economy in some fashion," he added. "Where it is not is in the hands of the firm's shareholders."
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Bloomberg News
January 22, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about corporate tax breaks overseas. "There is a more permanent reason for the decline that has to do with globalization: an increasing share of profits is now earned abroad and taxed more lightly than domestic profits," he said.
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Ponoco Record
January 21, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column by Susan Estrich ran about President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address. “I assume that within seconds of the president’s taking the oath, the attacks will begin on everything from what he said to what his children were wearing,” she said.
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Daily Journal
January 18, 2013
re: Heidi Rummel
Heidi Rummel was quoted about the California Justice System's treatment of sex trafficking victims. Federal and local law enforcement agencies across the state have gradually been implementing policies and training aimed at treating sexually exploited defendants more as victims than suspects. "I don’t think it’s been done perfectly; I think there has been a big shift in trying to recognize the defendants as victims, which is crucial to being able to treat them like victims," she said.
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CBS News
January 17, 2013
Los Angeles affiliate KCBS-TV interviewed Jody Armour about President Obama's new gun control proposals."Right now, background checks are like Swiss cheese, but they’re gonna be across the board if this legislation goes through," he said.
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The Washington Post
January 17, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
A strategy by Edward Kleinbard was highlighted on how to resolve the debt-ceiling crisis. Kleinbard has advocated the use of scrip - a kind of government-issued IOU. He has noted that the state of California employed this method in 2009 to pay individual and business claimants until cash was available. These I.O.U.s wouldn't violate the debt ceiling because they would merely "be a formal acknowledgment of a pre-existing monetary claim against the United States that the Treasury was not currently able to pay," he said.
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The Huffington Post
January 12, 2013
Jody Armour was interviewed about a missing person case. Armour weighed in on Tyler Perry's attempt at recovering information on the missing black and Latino man taken into custody by police before they disappeared. Perry has offered a $100,000 reward for this information.
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Yahoo! News
January 11, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column by Susan Estrich ran about the depiction of torture in the film "Zero Dark Thirty.” "The problem is that it's dangerously wrong, and not simply because it is distorting the debate here at home about torture ("Look, Mom, it works," you'll hear some conservatives boast.), but potentially and much more seriously because it could endanger the lives of Americans who are already risking their lives for our country," she said.
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NBC News
January 10, 2013
Jody Armour was interviewed about overcrowding in California prisons.
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The New York Times
January 10, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
An op-ed by Edward Kleinbard ran about the political fight over the debt ceiling. He suggested that President Obama issue scrip - a kind of IOU for claims holders - which would not constitute new borrowing. "It would be the least awful way to defang the most extortionate demands of Congressional hard-liners - and one that would not permanently damage America's fiscal standing in the world," he said.
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The Wall Street Journal
January 10, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
An op-ed by Edward Kleinbard was mentioned. The piece suggested that President Obama issues "scrips" - essentially IOUs - to resolve the debt ceiling problem. "The scrip would not violate the debt ceiling because it wouldn't constitute a new borrowing of money backed by the credit of the United States," he wrote.
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The Washington Post
January 5, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard has joined the Century Foundation think tank as a fellow. Along with fellows Stefanie DeLuca and Moshe Marvit, Kleinbard will tackle questions regarding national social and economic inequality. "It's essential to have experts such as Stefanie, Ed and Moshe doing the important research and writing on these problems so we can understand and solve them," said the foundation's president.
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National Journal
January 5, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about concessions President Obama made during the fiscal cliff negotiations. One can get a rough figure by comparing portions of the JCT's analyses of the budget proposal the president released in March, which sought to raise taxes on income over $250,000, and the fiscal-cliff deal reached on New Year's Day," he said.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 5, 2013
re: Lee Epstein
A book co-authored by Lee Epstein about the ideology and decisions of Supreme Court justices was featured. The Behavior of Federal Judges argues that rulings reflect a complex blend of judges' ideology and legalistic reasoning.
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The Columbian
January 3, 2013
re: Susan Estrich
A column by Susan Estrich ran about gun control in the wake of the Newton, Conn, shootings. "People who have a right to own guns have nothing to fear from fulsome background checks. If you can’t get a license to drive a car without proof that you know how to do so and understand the rules of the road, why a gun? There are moderate steps to be taken that need not divide us into warring camps," she said.
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CNN
January 3, 2013
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleibard was interviewed about the fiscal cliff. "Congress and the country need to know before we reach the breach point ... that he has a plausible plan to work around the debt ceiling," he said.
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International Herald Tribune
December 24, 2012
re: Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein's book "The Choices Justices Make," co written by Jack Knight, was mentioned in a column on judicial independence.
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The Wall Street Journal
December 21, 2012
re: George Lefcoe
George Lefcoe was quoted about how gifts can encourage corruption.
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CQ Weekly
December 17, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about corporate tax rates. The Treasury Department found last year that only 4 percent of small businesses are affected by the top two tax brackets - and thus would be subject to Obama's proposal. At the same time, those few enterprises reported roughly a third of all pass-through income nationwide. "The impact has in many ways been greatly overstated," said Kleinbard, who said he is skeptical that higher tax rates even on a few small businesses would dampen either job growth or business investment. Since salaries and capital expenses are deductible business expenses, they wouldn't be affected by higher tax rates, he said. "There's zero tax on the firm income that goes to pay a new employee," he says. "If you can add an employee and in doing so make money, you'll still do so. Otherwise you're leaving dollar bills on the sidewalk."
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NBC News
December 14, 2012
Jody Armour was interviewed about the debate over gun control which began to rage immediately from the shootings in Connecticut. "Now when we're thinking about the cost and benefits of gun owner protection versus public safety, we're going to have a visual image in our mind, we're going to remember this incident," he said. Armour was also interviewed by ABC News about the topic.
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NPR
December 11, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was interviewed about the fiscal cliff. "The first few days of 2013 are not going to radically change his or her life, but as the weeks go by, at some point, take-home pay will go down noticeably," he said.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
December 10, 2012
re: Lee Epstein
"The Behavior of Federal Judges," a new book by Lee Epstein and colleagues, was mentioned in an opinion piece on constitutional skepticism.
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Variety
December 10, 2012
re: Tara Kole
Tara Kole, who recently renegotiated deals for chef Gordon Ramsay's four Fox TV programs, was highlighted. She has also made producing deals for "50 Shades of Grey," and structured a deal for the YouTube channel WIGS. Of the latter, Kole said "It's an interesting space to be in, because it feels like a new frontier, image in our mind, we're going to remember this incident," he said.
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The Washington Post
December 8, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
A business tax proposal by Edward Kleinbard was cited. Kleinbard proposed a business tax where "One could subject all business income, including that from small partnerships and sole proprietorship to a single business enterprise income tax."
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NBC News
December 8, 2012
re: David Cruz
David Cruz was interviewed by numerous media outlets about the impact of possible U.S. Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage. “It could issue a far-reaching decision that declares that the Constitution protects same-sex marriages, thus invalidating similar bans in dozens of states around the country and allowing same-sex marriages to take place anywhere," Cruz said. He was also interviewed by KCAL, CBS, CBS-Radio, the Pasadena Star-News and Whittier Daily News.
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Los Angeles Times
December 7, 2012
re: Alexander Capron
Alexander Capron was quoted about a legal case involving the First Amendment and pharmaceuticals. Earlier this week, a divided federal appeals court this week tossed out the conviction of a former drug sales rep who was recorded pitching a doctor on other uses of a medicine approved by regulators solely to treat the sleep disorder narcolepsy. The court ruled that the sales rep had a free-speech right to promote the drug's unapproved uses. “The ruling is enormously significant and it eliminates an important hurdle that drugs have had to clear before reaching the market,” he said.
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Daily Journal
December 7, 2012
re: USC Gould School of Law
Malissa Barnwell-Scott's Orientation Service Project was featured. For the past five years, the program has organized a service project to expose incoming students to the legal challenges facing community residents. "We try to educate them about relevant issues in the city and why they are so need," she said.
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Daily Journal
December 7, 2012
Dean Robert Rasmussen was quoted about trends in law school enrollment.
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Daily Journal
December 7, 2012
re: David Cruz
David Cruz was quoted about a legal case involving gay juror' rights.
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Bloomberg News
December 6, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about the fiscal cliff. “The cliff should be turned into a ramp. Spend the automatic spending cuts and allow the Bush tax cuts to expire in three years instead of overnight. Congress would commit to devote all of the saving from future spending cuts to lowering tax rates, starting with the lowest brackets, not the highest,“ he said.
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Los Angeles Business Journal
December 5, 2012
re: Gillian Hadfield
Gillian Hadfield was interviewed about LegalZoom, which offers low cost online legal tools.
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The New York Times
December 4, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about the impact of successful tax reform on the U.S. economy. "If eliminating tax expenditures did bring a one-half percent increase in the annual pace of economic growth it would be a significant accomplishment. You'd be taking victory laps," he said.
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KQED-FM
December 4, 2012
re: Heidi Rummel
Heidi Rummel was quoted about an inmate who was initially denied parole. “We’ve submitted to the full board evidence that she has been diagnosed with a very advanced form, an aggressive form of lung cancer, and has very little time to live and is physically not capable of much,” she said.
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Al Jazeera
December 3, 2012
re: Josh Lockman
Josh Lockman was quoted about Israel’s reaction to Palestine’s new United Nations status. Israel’s announcement will draw a lot of condemnation, not just in the region from key actors such as Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar, which are already trying to broker this undoubtedly tenuous ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, but also the European Union and the United States,” he said.
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Wall Street Journal
December 3, 2012
re: Gillian Hadfield
The Wall Street Journal quoted Gillian Hadfield about the public’s need for affordable legal services. A number of companies provide free or low-cost legal forms. Others have launched websites that let consumers sort local lawyers by price, location and user rating and serve as online matchmakers between clients and local attorneys. "There is massive demand for reasonably priced, reliable, good-quality legal assistance," said Hadfield. That gap, Hadfield said, creates "tremendous opportunity" for companies that can use Web-based platforms to deliver legal services at a much lower cost than a bricks-and-mortar law office, where attorneys might charge consumers $150 to $500 an hour.
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KPCC-FM's "Take Two"
December 3, 2012
re: David Cruz
David Cruz was interviewed about a lawsuit involving gay conversion therapy.
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Al Jazeera
December 3, 2012
re: Josh Lockman
Josh Lockman was quoted about Israel’s reaction to Palestine’s new United Nations status.
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The New York Times
November 30, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about the impact of successful tax reform on the U.S. economy. “If eliminating tax expenditures did bring a one-half percent increase in the annual pace of economic growth it would be a significant accomplishment. You’d be taking victory laps,” he said.
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Daily Journal
November 29, 2012
Dean Robert Rasmussen was quoted about trends in law school enrollment.
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The Washington Post
November 29, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about corporate tax breaks on foreign profits. “The territorial tax system they envision would gut the entire U.S. corporate tax code. It would lose gigantic sums of money every year,” he said.
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New York Times
November 27, 2012
re: Lee Epstein
"The Behavior of Federal Judges,” a new book by Lee Epstein and colleagues, was profiled analyzing the role politics plays in Supreme Court decisions. “Like Supreme Court justices, court of appeals judges appointed by Republican presidents are more likely, other things being equal, to vote for conservative than for liberal outcomes,” Epstein said.
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CNN
November 25, 2012
re: Gillian Hadfield
An op-ed by Gillian Hadfield ran about the need for authorized non-lawyers and organizations to provide legal advice to the masses. “I believe there is no way to help ordinary people with their legal problems without fundamentally changing the way lawyers and judged regulate the practice of law. What we need are more efficient ways of delivering legal help and less expensive nonlawyers who can provide legal assistance,” she said.
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The Los Angeles Times
November 21, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about the U.S. tax system. “It’s insane to have two rival tax systems, side by side, that apply to millions of people. And it’s also absurd that every year we’re required to participate in this roller coaster of ‘Will Congress patch it or not’,’” he said.
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KCET-TV‘s SoCal Connected
November 19, 2012
re: Josh Lockman
Josh Lockman weighed in about the Israel/Gaza conflict.
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Daily Journal
November 19, 2012
re: David Cruz
David Cruz was quoted about a legal case involving gay juror’ rights.
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Daily Journal
November 16, 2012
re: USC Gould School of Law
A story featured USC Gould School of Law students, who signed up for helping the indigent on the row. The students assisted with everything from housing issues and tenants' rights to concerns about exposure to lead paint. They took to the streets, handing out fliers bearing information about eviction assistance and Healthy Way L.A., a free health care program for low-income and indigent people.
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Variety
November 16, 2012
re: Jack Lerner
Variety quoted Jack Lerner about how technology, such as Dish Network’s AutoHop service, has changed television advertising. "Many people still think that the traditional bargain between the networks and the consumers -- we will give you topnotch programming in exchange for sitting through commercials -- is a fair one," he said. "That was not necessarily the case with say, CD prices in the '90s. Many people felt that was not fair."
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Huffington Post
November 15, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
The Huffington Post ran an op-ed by Edward Kleinbard about ways to use future spending cuts to reduce tax rates and how Congress is trying to address the fiscal cliff. “Watching the process is like a seat at a performance by a clumsy Houdini, who thrills his audience a little too much when he binds himself in chains and then tries to escape while holding his breath underwater,” Kleinbard wrote.
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Los Angeles Times
November 15, 2012
re: John Matsusaka
John Matsusaka was quoted in George Skelton’s column about California’s Initiative system. He calls California’s initiative system “…a net plus because there are times when elected officials aren’t doing what voters want them to, and they ought to.”
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Huffington Post
November 15, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
The Huffington Post ran an op-ed by Edward Kleinbard about ways to use future spending cuts to reduce tax rates and how Congress is trying to address the fiscal cliff. “Watching the process is like a seat at a performance by a clumsy Houdini, who thrills his audience a little too much when he binds himself in chains and then tries to escape while holding his breath underwater,” Kleinbard wrote.
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The Desert Sun
November 14, 2012
re: Michael Brennan
Michael Brennan was quoted in a story about people who commit serial crimes. “People who commit crimes that are sort of serial in nature tend to keep doing the same type of crime because they’ve done it once or more than once and they didn’t get caught, so they keep doing what they know how to do,” he said.
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Ars Technica
November 13, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted in a story about how major corporations have been using tax loopholes such as the “Double Irish,” and the “Dutch Sandwich,” to reduce the amount of tax they would have to pay in the United States, Ireland, Netherlands, and elsewhere. His paper, “Double Irish” tax shelter technique was cited. “Meanwhile, from a US tax point of view, neither Ireland Limited nor Google BV exists at all. The United States sees only an Irish company with a Bermuda Branch, where most of its net income comes to rest,” he said
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SCOTUSblog
November 12, 2012
re: Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein published the piece, "Activism and the Roberts Court" with a colleague from Washington University. The essay highlighted their research on the current Supreme Court justices. "The Justices of the Roberts Court, like their immediate predecessors, are neither uniform activists nor committed restraintists. Rather, the Justices’ votes to strike (and uphold) statutes seem to reflect their political preferences toward the policy content of the law, and not an underlying preference for restraint.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 11, 2012
re: David Cruz
David Cruz was quoted about same-sex marriage initiatives across the country. “The results do signal a shift in public understanding and approval of the issues in the quest for marriage equality. ... The fact that this is in line with what is emerging in national polls, in the past year for the first time, [it] does make sense to see this as a sort of transition point.'
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The Columbian
November 11, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich published a column by about a need for President Obama to build consensus in a politically fractured country. “Will Republicans be willing to work with a president they have spent the past four years trying to ensure was a one-termer? Not if they don't have to -- particularly given the way the House is divided between Republicans who are more conservative than most Americans and Democrats who are more liberal.”
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NPR News
November 10, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was interviewed about the potential for Democrats and Republicans to find compromise on tax reform. "It is possible to skin the cat by increasing tax collection from higher-income Americans without increasing their nominal tax rates.”
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The Baltimore Sun
November 8, 2012
re: John Matsusaka
John Matsusaka and the Initiative and Referendum Institute were cited regarding the failure of past marijuana legalization measures. “Legalization initiatives in the more distant past had failed by large margins,” they said.
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NBC News
November 8, 2012
re: USC Gould School of Law
The Initiative and Referendum Institute was cited regarding the 176 ballot measures decided in 38 states on Election Day.
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The Christian Science Monitor
November 8, 2012
re: John Matsusaka
John Matsusaka was quoted about voter behavior regarding ballot measures. “I don’t think voters at all behave in the current year based on the number of measures five or 10 years ago,” he said.
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Los Angeles Times
November 7, 2012
re: Dan Simon
Dan Simon was quoted about the 2012 race for Los Angeles district attorney. “It certainly helped that she had Cooley's endorsement, because that gave her the credibility necessary to woo independents and perhaps some Republicans.”
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City News Service
November 7, 2012
re: USC Gould School of Law
Jackie Lacey, a USC Gould School alumna, became the first female and first African-American district attorney in Los Angles County.
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Huffington Post
November 6, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about the impact on the Romney campaign of the candidate’s refusal to release all his tax returns. "Romney's refusal during his campaign to release his past tax returns betrayed a contempt for the electorate and for the democratic process, which relies on voters having the requisite information to make informed decisions. The reason for the tradition of releasing past tax returns -- not returns prepared in the years an individual is running for the presidency -- is to demonstrate that the candidate fully and fairly complied with the tax laws when the spotlight of the election was not already on him."
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The Huffington Post
November 6, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about the impact on the Romney campaign of the candidate’s refusal to release all his tax returns. "Romney's refusal during his campaign to release his past tax returns betrayed a contempt for the electorate and for the democratic process, which relies on voters having the requisite information to make informed decisions. The reason for the tradition of releasing past tax returns -- not returns prepared in the years an individual is running for the presidency -- is to demonstrate that the candidate fully and fairly complied with the tax laws when the spotlight of the election was not already on him."
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The Week
November 6, 2012
re: John Matsusaka
John Matsusaka was quoted about marijuana legalization measures in the 2012 election. On the issue of taxing and regulating weed like alcohol, Matsusaka stated “Public opinion is trending in this direction. It’s a matter of time before one of these passes.”
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Bloomberg Business Week
November 5, 2012
re: John Matsusaka
John Matsusaka of USC’s Initiative and Referendum Institute was quoted about marijuana legalization propositions. “Younger folks are more comfortable with this drug than maybe their parents or grandparents were. Also the fact that the medical marijuana dispensaries have been around for a while now and the sky hasn’t fallen has helped the proponents of these things suggest it’s not so bad,” he said
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KCET-TV
November 5, 2012
re: John Matsusaka
John Matsusaka was quoted about initiatives on the California Ballot in 2012. ”Constraints put on legislators guarantee that a large portion of the state’s income-perhaps 33% of the entire budget go only to certain sectors, such as education,” he said.
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The Dispatch
November 5, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich published an op-ed about the presidential candidates and how their leadership would affect natural disaster recovery. “There's an election on Tuesday. It's a choice not only between two different men, but also between two different visions. Visions aren't something that change because of bad weather.”
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Fox News
October 24, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich was interviewed about Gallup Poll results finding that former Gov. Mitt Romney has a lead over President Obama among likely voters.
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The Washington Post
October 22, 2012
re: USC Gould School of Law
Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice, published by the USC Gould School of Law, quoted Robert McDuff, a civil rights lawyer from Jackson, Mississippi where he said, “Regrettably, this is not a thing of the past.”
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The Orange County Register
October 22, 2012
re: Josh Lockman
Josh Lockman was interviewed about the third presidential debate, which focused on foreign affairs. "The key difference here is that Obama and Romney differ on the timing and ultimately on how the weapons will be delivered. Obama has urged a more cautious approach," he said.
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New York Daily News
October 19, 2012
re: USC Gould School of Law
Carole Handler was quoted about free-speech protections in the United States. “Here’s the great thing about our society: They have the right to complain. Unless it’s really, really horrible, the best remedy is more speech” said Carole Handler.
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Al Jazeera
October 15, 2012
re: Josh Lockman
Josh Lockman was interviewed about tensions between Turkey and Syria.
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Politico
October 15, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about the impact of reducing individual and corporate tax rates. “Tax reform right now has one fundamental thing in common with 1986. That is the country is drowning in tax expenditures,” he said.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 15, 2012
re: Dan Simon
An op-ed by Dan Simon ran about false convictions leading to the death penalty. He noted that 95 percent of felony convictions are consummated in plea bargains rather than in open court. “Not unlike in other walks of life, the bargains struck are determined primarily by the strength of the negotiators’ cards, which do not always correspond to the merits of their positions,” he said.
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Daily Journal
October 14, 2012
re: Jason Kim
Jason Kim was quoted on Marjolis & Tisman's dedication to Asian clients and businesses. " I think it's rare to find an Asia-focused firm that handles Asian matters on a day-to-day basis. There's no question in my mind that there's subtle knowledge and experiences gained by constantly representing Asian interest," he said.
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Hollywood Patch
October 12, 2012
re: Rob Saltzman
Robert Saltzman was chosen to be a speaker at an anti-bullying community forum held by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division.
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Fox News
October 9, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich was interviewed about the vice presidential debate.
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Daily Journal
October 9, 2012
re: Dan Simon
An op-ed by Dan Simon ran about the Los Angeles District Attorney's office and its record on faulty criminal prosecutions. He recommended the office adopt internal conviction integrity units and several reforms to investigative procedure that have proven to reduce erroneous prosecutions in other district attorney offices around the country. "False convictions shatter the lives of innocent people,” he said.
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The Fiscal Times
October 8, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about tax reform. “There’s no prospect for meaningful tax reform without that (capping tax expenditures) being a key step. That way it’s impossible to pick favorites. The only way to get the job done is to keep all the itemized deductions shackled together and thrown into the sea together,” he said.
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KPCC-FM
October 5, 2012
re: Niels W. Frenzen
Niels Frenzen was interviewed about the Los Angeles Police Department’s new rules regarding detaining illegal immigrants.
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CBS News
October 4, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich was interviewed about the presidential debate.
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The Chronicle Herald (Canada)
October 4, 2012
re: Scott Altman
Scott Altman was quoted about federal and state child support amounts. “Federal and state child-support amounts are paid separately,” he said
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The San Francisco Examiner
October 3, 2012
re: Heidi Rummel
Heidi Rummel was quoted about juveniles being tried differently than adults in criminal cases. “Juveniles should be treated differently than adults when it comes to the criminal justice system,” she said.
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Associated Press
October 2, 2012
re: Elyn Saks
Elyn Saks was quoted about the effects of schizophrenia. “I felt so ashamed,” said Saks, a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” winner for her contributions to mental health law. “It’s an internalized stigma. I wanted to be whole, I wanted to be well. Each time I tried to get off medication, I did it with great gusto and failed miserably.” Now, she takes her pills. “Frankly, I’m sorry I wasn’t smarter sooner,” she said.
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Reuters
October 1, 2012
re: Gillian Hadfield
Gillian Hadfield was quoted about the legal services for the poor. Testimonies from officials and experts stated “With approximately one million low-income households facing legal problems, according to a court system survey, it’s simply impossible for the state’s 150,000 licensed attorneys to provide enough pro bono hours to help all of those people. In her testimony, Hadfield said “Money alone will not solve the problem,” reinforcing the idea that despite increased funding from the legislature, the need for civil legal services for disadvantaged New Yorkers remains stark.
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The New York Times
October 1, 2012
re: Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein and a colleague’s study on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions from 1946 to 2011 was highlighted. They found that the John Roberts court was the most conservative one since the 1930s. The story also cited a study by Epstein and colleague on the justices’ political ideologies.
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KPCC-FM
October 1, 2012
re: Niels W. Frenzen
Niels Frenzen was interviewed about laws signed and vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown that affect undocumented immigrants.
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Associated Press
September 26, 2012
re: Heidi Rummel
Heidi Rummel was quoted about likelihood of anti-Muslim-film producer Nakoula Basseley Nakoula serving jail time for violating parole. "Usually the probation officer will be most interested in preventing him from engaging in any kind of activity related to the original crime, so another factor would be what kind of permission did the probation officer give him? Why would (the film) be of concern in a bank fraud case? That's a whole nother wrinkle."
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CNN
September 25, 2012
re: Edward McCaffery
An op-ed by Edward McCaffery ran about presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s taxes. McCaffery wrote that the attention to the Romney’s taxes is misplaced, and that the focus should really be on an ineffective tax system that incentivizes tax avoidance. “If you’re like most Americans — i.e., if you’re middle class — then your blood may be boiling at the fact that the super rich seem to be able to hold us all hostage to low tax rates under an income tax.”
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Washington Post
September 24, 2012
re: Nancy Staudt
The Washington Post (September 24, 2012): The Associated Press covered the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policies inaugural symposium, attended by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Nancy Staudt, academic director for the institute. The Washington Post reported that attendees included Sen. John McCain, former Gov. Bill Richardson and other political, environmental and entertainment leaders. Los Angeles Times noted Schwarzenegger holds the position of Governor Downey Professor of State and Global Policy at USC, and that his institute is dedicated to finding bipartisan solutions to civic problems. "If a soldier can risk his life for his country, why isn't a politician willing to risk his office for making the right decision?" Schwarzenegger said during one panel. "The purpose of this is to give people a chance to see what our institute is all about. And it's really about trying to foster post-partisanship," The symposium was covered by two more stories by Associated Press(second link here), The Guardian (U.K.), The Telegraph (U.K.), CNN, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, Asian News International, Reuters, The Daily Beast, Scripps Howard News Service, GlobalPost, Star-Tribune, KPCC-FM, ABC News Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV, two more KNBC stories (second link here), CW News Los Angeles affiliate KTLA-TV, Variety, three Deadline Hollywood stories, L.A. Observed and The Guardian Express.
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NBC News
September 23, 2012
re: Nancy Staudt
Nancy Staudt was a guest on Conan Nolan's "News Conference," discussing the inaugural symposium of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy. "The purpose of this is to give people a chance to see what our institute is all about. And it's really about trying to foster post-partisanship," said Staudt, who is academic director of the institute.
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North County Times
September 22, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich ran a column about the Mitt Romney “47 percent” video. But if you had to guess, the "Romney tape" will, in retrospect, be the moment that defines a candidacy and a campaign because it reinforces precisely what everyone has long seen as Romney's fundamental weakness.
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KPCC-FM
September 21, 2012
re: Rob Saltzman
Robert Saltzman was interviewed about the Los Angeles Police Department’s response to crowds and protests during a July ArtWalk. "Due to the particular significance of this event, I do think it's worth taking an additional step," he said.
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Associated Press
September 21, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard about Mitt Romney’s taxes. "All the important compliance and policy questions relating to Romney's personal tax matters relate to the past. The issue has never been Romney's 2011 tax return — in fact, it is a distraction to the real issues."
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Campus Technology
September 19, 2012
re: USC Gould School of Law
Jane Chang Bright’s initiative to preserve academic integrity in an age when computers are allowed in testing rooms was featured. When laptops became prevalent, the USC Gould School started using SofTest, software that prevents students from getting notes off the Internet or opening PDFs and records every keystroke during a test. It’s the same software used by the State Bar of California. “I personally feel [that] a law school is doing their students and future grads a huge disservice by not using SofTest”
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North County Times
September 19, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich ran a column about presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s recent comments about Americans who pay no income tax. “Romney is already vulnerable because he has not made full disclosure of his tax returns. He is already vulnerable because many working people ---- people who take responsibility, work hard, play be the rules, don't depend on the government for any form of handout ---- worry that Romney simply doesn't ‘get’ people like them.”
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The New York Times
September 18, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about the availability of corporate tax havens. “The complexity of the corporate income tax makes it easy to evade and avoid American taxes,” he said.
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The Washington Post
September 18, 2012
Jody Armour was quoted in an Associated Press story about the U.S. government protecting offensive free speech. Armour said it's "not unusual at all for the government to step in and give a citizen in distress or danger special protection, but it can't be unlimited. They're going to have to strike a balance."
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North County Times
September 16, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich ran a column about nontraditional healing. “He would look at me, run his hands in the air and have me repeat simple statements ("I am safe." "I am strong."). Then I would lie down on the big chair, and he would begin the healing. His hands were unnaturally hot. My kids called him ‘Peter the Feeler,’ but it wasn't that at all.”
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The Fiscal Times
September 13, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about tax reform. “There’s no prospect for meaningful tax reform without that (capping tax expenditures) being a key step. That way it’s impossible to pick favorites. The only way to get the job done is to keep all of itemized deductions shackled together and thrown into the sea together.”
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Entertainment Weekly
September 13, 2012
re: USC Gould School of Law
Berj Boyajian was quoted about a controversial video that incited protests throughout the Muslim world. “[In Islamic countries], they’re much more protective of the prophet Mohammad than Christians and Jews combined. No Christian would burn an embassy. They would say, ‘That is his or her opinion.’ For Muslims, although they say Muhammad is not divine, they are more protective of him,” he said.
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KPCC-FM
September 11, 2012
re: Rob Saltzman
Robert Saltzman, who serves on the Los Angeles Police Department’s Police Commission, was quoted about three recent use-of-force incidents. “I am pleased with the department’s response, particularly the community meetings.”
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Los Angeles Times
September 7, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
An op-ed by Edward Kleinbard ran about corporate tax laws that effectively allow tax cheating. “Presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently praised U.S. businesses for knowing their way around the tax system. Companies are rewarded for using tax havens, which ultimately encourages them to invest in overseas economies rather than America’s. When Romney endorses the idea that U.S. firms are doing right by reporting their profits overwhelmingly in tax havens, he shows contempt for a basic principle of tax law."
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Reuters
September 7, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Research by Edward Kleinbard about vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s proposed tax plan was highlighted. In the story, the reporter wrote: “Hardly anyone in America knows more about how to avoid taxes than Edward Kleinbard, who spent decades as a tax lawyer finding creative ways for clients to defer or escape their obligations. He has been doing penance by exposing tax perfidies, from 2007 to 2009 as chief of staff for Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation and since then as a tax law professor at the University of Southern California. Kleinbard shows Ryan would turn individual and corporate income taxes into the equivalent of two large payroll taxes with the burden falling almost entirely on workers, not owners and executives.” The Roadmap "is a mechanism for redistributing tax burdens down the income scale," Kleinbard wrote. "Most ordinary Americans would see their tax burdens increase by around 50 percent," he concluded, "while the most successful individuals would see reductions in their labor income tax rates, and elimination of all capital tax burdens - including the elimination of the gift and estate tax."
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North County Times
September 6, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich ran a op-ed about former President Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention. “On Wednesday night, Bill Clinton did brilliantly what he (and we) did quite a bit less brilliantly 24 years ago. Putting aside the tensions of the past, he made the case for Barack Obama and against Mitt Romney with passion, eloquence and genuine conviction.”
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Wall Street Journal
September 3, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about interactions between the IRS and private equity companies like Bain Capital. He said some firms "seemed to have interpreted the silence of the IRS as acquiescence, which is not correct, but the IRS failed to enforce the rules in this area…Firms ended up taking positions that I think went beyond what the law permitted," he said. "But the IRS failed to do its job of litigating those issues. Had they done so, a lot of these structures, including possibly Bain's, would have been disallowed."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 3, 2012
re: USC Gould School of Law
A story highlighted news that Gideon Yaffe received a Templeton grant to study free will, focusing specifically on the intersection of philosophy and law.
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The New York Times
September 1, 2012
re: Edward McCaffery
Edward McCaffery’s book, “Behavioral Public Finance,” was cited. “In real-world public finance, form matters.”
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North County Times
August 31, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich ran a column about rhetoric at the Republican National Convention. “I'll be fair and balanced. I'm sure many of the same equations will apply next week in reverse. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single meaningful (and truthful) thing Paul Ryan said.”
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The Washington Post
August 29, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's taxes. “He didn’t specify 13% of what. That is, if you look at taxable income, well of course he paid 13% tax on his taxable income, but that’s an absurd base on which to measure an effective tax rate — it’s completely circular. The better base is adjusted gross income, because that gets closer to economic income.”
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Contra Costa Times
August 28, 2012
re: Rob Saltzman
Robert Saltzman was quoted on the poorly conducted internal probe into the allegations of SWAT officers buying large numbers of specially made handguns and reselling them. “The department may need to implement additional regulations to curb such activity by officers.”
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North County Times
August 25, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich ran a column about Rep. Todd Akin's comments regarding "legitimate rape." “There is no such thing as legitimate rape. Children and adults get raped ---- by relatives, by so-called friends, by acquaintances, by strangers, and by angry and estranged spouses.”
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The Washington Post
August 24, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's taxes. Kleinbard has doubts that Romney did not use blockers to reduce the current tax burdens on himself or his IRA. Romney has “demonstrated a consistent interest in availing himself of every possible tax minimization strategy and it is greatly improbable that he chose to leave money on the table by not using offshore blocker corporations and the like when doing so could save some tax dollars,” he said.
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The Dallas Morning News
August 22, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on tax reform. “ Romney’s plan raises inadequate revenues and second, it asks the working poor and middle class to subsidize the rich. You cannot cut taxes and raise as much revenue and make up the difference through tax expenditures without shifting the burden of tax away from the rich to the poor."
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The New York Times
August 22, 2012
re: Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein’s study on the Supreme Court’s First Amendment decisions from 1946 to June of last year was highlighted. The study found that all justices, whether they lean right or left, embrace the First Amendment when it serves their purposes and reject it when it doesn’t. “Justices are opportunistic free speechers, willing to turn back regulation of expression when the expression conforms to their values and uphold it when the expression and their preferences collide,” the study’s authors wrote.
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Forbes
August 22, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was featured in a study about vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's "Roadmap for America's Future." Kleinbard noted that Ryan's plan was proposed when he was a member of a minority and there was little chance of it getting a hearing. "Proponents of the Roadmap or plans like it must explain how any projected increase in economic growth will compensate the majority of Americans for shouldering more tax burdens while receiving smaller government benefits," Kleinbard wrote.
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Dallas Morning News
August 22, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on tax reform. “ Romney’s plan raises inadequate revenues and second, it asks the working poor and middle class to subsidize the rich. You cannot cut taxes and raise as much revenue and make up the difference through tax expenditures without shifting the burden of tax away from the rich to the poor.”
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Bloomberg Businessweek
August 20, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax rate. “It is surprising to me that we countenance a tax system in which a private-equity specialist with $20 million in income pays about the same tax rate as an average working family.”
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North County Times
August 18, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich ran a column about the choice of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate. “The fact that Americans don't know exactly what to make of Rep. Paul Ryan, that the first reaction was decidedly negative (although based on almost no prior knowledge), that my Democratic pals are gleeful, that seniors in Florida are likely to be inundated with old quotes threatening the security of the demographic that would take an ambulance to get to the polls (I ran "Get Out the Vote" in Florida once, believe me), shouldn't matter very much in terms of who wins.”
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Fox News
August 18, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich was interviewed about Rep. Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate.
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KPCC-FM
August 16, 2012
re: Heidi Rummel
Heidi Rummel was interviewed by "The Madeleine Brand Show" about juveniles sentenced to prison without parole.
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The New York Times
August 16, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard ran a op-ed about vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's proposed tax reforms. “The Roadmap for America's Future would shift the tax burden drastically from America's most affluent to the working poor and middle class. Ryan's plan thus would exacerbate current worrying trends in income inequality growth."
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The Washington Post
August 16, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's taxes. “He didn’t specify 13% of what. That is, if you look at taxable income, well of course he paid 13% tax on his taxable income, but that’s an absurd base on which to measure an effective tax rate — it’s completely circular. The better base is adjusted gross income, because that gets closer to economic income.”
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North County Times
August 15, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich ran a column about late reporter Karl Fleming. “Karl loved his sons and his grandchildren and his friends. He loved journalism and politics and a good story.”
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Allen Matkins
August 13, 2012
re: Ehud Kamar
Ehud Kamar was quoted about the Nevada state district court exercising jurisdiction over nonresident officers and directors. “Since Nevada lacks such a statute, there is doubt as to whether Nevada’s business court has personal jurisdiction over directors of companies that are incorporated in Nevada but are headquartered elsewhere.”
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The Washington Post
August 13, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about the effects of vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's tax proposals. “You could not do that without substantially shifting the tax burden to the middle class and below” and reducing tax burdens on affluent households. Those are just inescapable facts.”
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CNN
August 12, 2012
re: Elyn Saks
Elyn Saks ran a op-ed about living and working with schizophrenia. She wrote that despite decades of struggle, including multiple hospitalizations, she has a successful career as a law professor and a strong support system. "Everything about my illness says that I shouldn't be here. But I am.” She added that excellent treatment, supportive family and friends and a supportive workplace at the USC Gould School have been critical in allowing her to live her life so freely.
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The New York Times
August 10, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about how the very rich obtain preferential tax rates. “You start with income dominated by tax-preferred income — capital gains and qualified dividends. That gets you to 15 percent. Then you use charitable contributions of appreciated securities to reduce ordinary income. But the charitable contribution deduction is capped at 50 percent of adjusted gross income. Now you’re way down, but you’re not at zero.”
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Business Insider
August 10, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's taxes. “Romney's limited release of tax returns doesn't dispel the legitimate concerns that arises from hints buried in his scant disclosure to wealth."
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Orlando Sentinel
August 10, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard and colleagues cited a report about the "Son of Boss" tax scandal.
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Los Angeles Times
August 10, 2012
Jody Armour was quoted in a story on the banning prolific ticket scalpers from USC's Galen Center. "The problem here is they are trying to criminalize activities that would not otherwise be deemed harmful to people. These people aren't committing violent crimes.... How can it be in the public's interest to make it harder for them to find tickets?"
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CNN
August 9, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard and a colleague ran a op-ed about Mitt Romney and the "Son of Boss" tax shelter scandal of the '90s. "Son of Boss" was a prepackaged tax shelter used by Marriott International when Romney sat on the company board's audit committee. "Romney approved the firm's reporting of fictional tax losses exceeding $70 million generated by its Son of Boss transaction. His endorsement of this stratagem provides insight into Romney's professional ethics and attitude toward tax compliance obligations."
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Los Angeles Daily News
August 9, 2012
re: Heidi Rummel
Heidi Rummel was quoted about a juror becoming close to the family of a trial's victim. “There are no restrictions on jurors after a case is over. Like any member of the public, they're free to observe court hearings and speak to anyone they like.”
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The Washington Post
August 7, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard quoted about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's taxes. “It is improbable that a man of his wealth would have paid no taxes for 10 years.”
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The Huffington Post
August 6, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard ran a op-ed, responding to an op-ed by former White House press officer Ari Fleischer about a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on tax rates. Kleinbard took issue with many of Fleischer's points. "I want to defend the honor of the CBO itself, since by virtue of its mission it is not able to respond directly to gross distortions of its work product.”
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Pacifica Radio
August 5, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was interviewed by Los Angeles affiliate KPFK-FM about the possibility that Mitt Romney is hiding his tax returns.
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North County Times
August 1, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich ran a column about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's recent trip abroad. Romney's comments about the London 2012 Olympics, and about the differences between Israel and Palestine, brought him a lot of scrutiny. "The real problem for him, back home at least, may not be accusations of racism, but the realization that this guy is just not ready for prime time, much less the presidency.”
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Los Angeles Times
July 27, 2012
Jody Armour discussed criminal charges brought against a paparazzo who allegedly chased singer Justin Bieber in a high-speed pursuit. "We're giving a lot of power to the government to tell people how we can observe people in public places. It's easy to hate the paparazzi, but in some ways they really represent an interest other than themselves."
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Time
July 25, 2012
Jody Armour was quoted about recent police-related shootings in Anaheim. "What we're starting to see with these cases is a high incidence of questionable shootings and a lack of transparency from authorities, and that can generate a reservoir of distrust,” Armour said.
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Los Angeles Times
July 25, 2012
re: Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein was interviewed about retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Although other former justices have been active in their retirement, O'Connor's advocacy has been unusual, she said.
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Los Angeles Times
July 24, 2012
re: Gillian Hadfield
Gillian Hadfield was quoted in David Lazarus’ column about political dysfunction in America. "There's an inability to carry out basic policy,” she said. “We've hit a high level of political dysfunction."
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North County Times
July 20, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich ran a column on whether video games are dangerous. “But at the end of the day, stories like these aren't about video games or Wiis, and they aren't about lawyers and litigation. It's about common sense, pure and simple ---- and the fact that it's not as common as it should be. That's the news, and it's a whole lot scarier than any battle in a video game.”
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NPR
July 19, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was interviewed on “Morning Edition” about Mitt Romney's tax-deferred retirement accounts. "Either Gov. Romney is sort of the modern-day equivalent of Jack and his magic beans, who somehow created a mighty beanstalk, or he took a very aggressive position with respect to valuing insider stock.”
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CNN
July 18, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard and lawyer Peter Canellos published a op-ed on presidential candidate Mitt Romney's announcement that he won't release his earlier tax returns. "Given Romney's financial sophistication, it has been assumed by some that there cannot be any tax skeletons in his closet. His reluctance to disclose past returns, however, undermines that assumption."
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San Gabriel Valley Tribune
July 18, 2012
re: Scott Altman
Scott Altman was quoted about California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer's divorce proceedings. "It seems pretty unusual for an employed spouse to be seeking spousal support from an unemployed spouse, and it's relatively unusual to get spousal support in relatively short marriages.”
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Al Jazeera
July 17, 2012
re: Josh Lockman
Josh Lockman was quoted about the legal implications of the Syrian conflict being declared a civil war. "With this application of international humanitarian law to the conflict, key government officials could be held responsible for both massacres against civilians and also for the treatment of captured combatants, in this case rebel fighters, to the degree they're abused, harmed or killed."
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The Washington Post
July 17, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about Mitt Romney's 2010 tax return. “Romney had a $4.8 million capital loss carryover coming into 2010. So that means no capital gain income in 2009. If you look on the first page [of his 2010 tax return], though, he had lots of ordinary income (interest mostly), and dividends, which are taxed at the same rate as capital gains but which cannot be sheltered from tax by capital losses. So presumably he had some positive income tax in 2009.”
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The Hollywood Reporter
July 17, 2012
re: John A. Schulman
USC Gould School was ranked the No. 2 entertainment law school in the country. The story stated that the school upped its profile in 2009 by hiring John Schulman of the USC Gould School, former Warner Bros. general counsel, to lead the entertainment law program. An expansive alumni network helps students find jobs at studios and networks, according to the story.
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North County Times
July 11, 2012
re: Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich ran a column about a Department of Education survey finding that grade school students don't feel sufficiently challenged academically. Estrich wrote that our culture has focused intensely on the highest- and lowest-performing students, ignoring the middle. "We debate standards when what we really mean are minimums.”
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Los Angeles Times
July 11, 2012
re: USC Gould School of Law
USC Gould School professors were mentioned that they are working with the ACLU on a civil rights lawsuit regarding evidence of assaults by Sherriff's deputies.
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La Opinion
July 10, 2012
re: Michael Brennan
Michael Brennan is among the professors working with the ACLU on a civil rights lawsuit regarding alleged assaults by sheriff's deputies.
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Vanity Fair
July 9, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard’s research was cited about the possibility of revisiting a century-old U.S. subsidy for oil drilling.
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KPCC-FM
July 9, 2012
re: Tom Lyon
Thomas Lyon was interviewed on the “Madeleine Brand Show” about a new car seat ruling that could affect California parents.
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Dawn (Pakistan)
July 9, 2012
re: Elyn Saks
Elyn Saks’ book, "The Center Cannot Hold," a story about her struggles with schizophrenia, was mentioned.
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Akron Beach Journal
July 6, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about Mitt Romney's Swiss bank account. “Swiss account has political but not tax-policy resonance since it—like many other Romney investments—constituted a bet against the U.S. dollar, an odd thing for a presidential candidate to do. The Obama campaign provided a helpful world map pointing to the tax havens Bermuda, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands, where Romney and his family have assets, each with the tagline “Value: not disclosed in tax returns.”
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The Telegraph (U.K.)
July 3, 2012
re: Scott Altman
Scott Altman was quoted about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' divorce, and whether courts would factor religion into child custody decisions. “I’d be shocked if a court decided to wade into a debate about which religion is best for the upbringing of a child.”
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Bloomberg News
July 2, 2012
re: Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard was quoted about the possibility of revisiting a century-old U.S. subsidy for oil drilling. “To the extent the world is a different place than it was when the policy was first devised, that’s a powerful reason to revisit the need for this subsidy.”
