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WSBA President Sunitha Anjilvel spoke with professor Spitzer about when and how lawyers have been called upon to uphold their highest ambassadorial obligation to preserve the rule of law.
Dean Tamara F. Lawson and the UW School of Law hosted “Presidential Power,” part of the Provost's "Democracy in Focus" lecture series leading up the 2024 Presidential Election.
Grand jury indictments are frequently in the news. But what does it mean to be indicted, and how do grand juries work?
"Data centers needed more space, so they literally moved there." Guest: Saadia Pekkanen.
While none of those cases involved DEI, experts said antitrust provisions could be applied to diversity‑related hiring practices under narrow circumstances. The law could bar competing employers from conspiring to prefer certain job candidates over others, such as white males, said law professor Douglas Ross of University of Washington's law school.
Pekkanen said competition for orbital space, especially in that orbit, is heating up. "You have limited real estate," she said. "You have many companies which are interested, but also many countries that are interested. It’s not necessarily a free-for-all... but it will get congested."
Liz Porter, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, said U.S. attorney choices matter because they set the priorities for civil and criminal enforcement of federal law in the region. “U.S. attorneys are important federal officials and under our constitutional system there’s supposed to be advice and consent by the Senate,” Porter said.
“There’s nothing in the law that says that federal agents are exempt from the criminal laws in the states in which they operate,” Feldman said. “If a federal agent commits a crime, a federal agent is subject to prosecution like any other individual.”
“There’s nothing in the law that says that federal agents are exempt from the criminal laws in the states in which they operate,” Feldman said. “If a federal agent commits a crime, a federal agent is subject to prosecution like any other individual.”
But adult deepfakes have not gotten the same level of attention from content platforms or the venture capital firms that fund them. “They are not afraid enough of it. They are overly tolerant of it,” Calo says. “Neither law enforcement nor civil courts adequately protect against it. It is night and day.”
An immigration officer’s fatal shooting of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis Saturday has intensified questions about legal limits to federal agents’ authority. Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson and state Attorney General Nick Brown joined others this week in declaring the actions of immigration officials, in Minneapolis and elsewhere, unconstitutional. Mary Fan and Elizabeth Porter, professors of law at the UW, are quoted.
"This morning on Good Day Seattle, we spoke to University of Washington assistant professor of law, Jeremiah Chin, who specializes in constitutional law."
If you’ve spent the past decade watching the parade of tech wearables (pins, pendants, rings, clips, glasses), it’s reasonable to ask whether people will use ones powered by AI—not just for a TikTok video but on the subway, in a meeting or at dinner with a spouse. And if so, a bigger question remains: What level of social tolerance will such devices have? Ryan Calo, professor of law and in the Information School at the UW, is quoted.
“I know of no cases like this,” said Scott Schumacher, a former tax prosecutor and the director of the graduate program in taxation at the University of Washington. It is nearly unheard of for the department to abandon an indicted criminal case years in the making. “They’re basically saying you can buy your way out of a tax evasion prosecution.”
An immigration lawyer argues ICE and Trump-era policies caused preventable deaths, naming Renee Good and others erased by a violent deportation system.
“Police are not permitted to summarily execute people on our streets,” attorney David B. Owens said. “This was an egregious, unnecessary and unlawful shooting by a CPD officer.”
Romanucci & Blandin, which announced it was pursuing potential legal action for the family of Renee Good, who was shot and killed on Jan. 7 by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, has a strong case but faces legal hurdles ahead. UW Law professor David B. Owens is quoted.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have impeded federal immigration enforcement through public statements they have made, two people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press. Mary Fan, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
A federal judge on Thursday ruled against a last-minute effort to convert a long-running sex discrimination lawsuit against Nike into a class action. Jeff Feldman, associate teaching professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
