Public concerns have been running amuck on the internet regarding the recent tentative decision by the California Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District in Make UC a Good Neighbor v. Regents of the University of California, et.al., Case
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Berkeley, California, Adopts a Fair Workweek Ordinance
Starting in November 2023, covered employers in Berkley, California will need to be prepared to comply with the Berkeley Fair Workweek Ordinance (the Ordinance). The Ordinance requires covered employers to provide work schedules to employees at least 14 calendar…
The City of Berkeley Passed a Fair Work Week Ordinance
On December 13, 2022, the City of Berkeley passed the Fair Workweek Employment Standards Ordinance on the second reading. The ordinance will take effect in January 2023; however, it will not become operative until 2024 according to the terms of…
If at First You Don’t Succeed
This is the third guest post by Steve Epstein, about his book Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 7, Till Death Do Us Part: Dan’s Meat
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More on the Berkeley Students’ Speakers Ban
Prof. Mohammad Fadel recently published a defense of nine Berkeley student organizations’ ban on “Zionist speakers,” which was a response to my own essay last week. The Chronicle of Higher Education offered me the last word, which was published yesterday
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Berkeley Law Student Groups’ Bylaw Bans Zionist Speakers
My new essay is up at The Chronicle of Higher Education on the latest anti-Jewish move by Law Students for Justice in Palestine at Berkeley Law. It is paywalled, but with free registration. Here is the gist: CHRONICLE OF HIGHER
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Berkeley Develops Jewish-Free Zones
If it wasn t so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives trying so hard to signal progressive virtue that they fall victim to a deeper moral shame.Nine different law student groups…
Getting Local: City of Berkeley Local Ordinances
Bay area cities such as San Francisco and Oakland are well known for having local ordinances, and the City of Berkeley is no exception. Here are some of the important local ordinances that employers with employees in Berkeley should be…
Suit Challenging City’s Interpretation of 20-Year-Old Affordable Housing Agreement Was Timely
The Court of Appeal ruled that a suit concerning an affordable housing fee that plaintiff had agreed to pay two decades earlier was still timely because the 90-day limitations period under the Subdivision Map Act did not begin to run…
Stanford prof calls cops on Berkeley prof who exposed her $5K/hour consulting fee
A professor at Stanford University in California has been branded Professor Karen after she allegedly threatened to call the cops on a black professor who revealed her $5,000-an-hour consultation fee.Jo Boaler, a white education professor at Stanford, has been embroiled…