Monte Mills, director of the Native American Law Center at the University of Washington School of Law and a former professor at the University of Montana law school, said that if tribes are lending through online services, courts have generally found that they are not subject to states’ usury laws and are able to utilize the lending companies to bring in more revenue and employment for tribal members.
Monte Mills, director of the Native American Law Center at the University of Washington School of Law who formerly taught at the University of Montana’s law school, said lawsuits playing out in court may have serious implications for tribal sovereignty. And he said the tribal lending landscape is “tricky.”
Doug Ross, an antitrust expert with the University of Washington School of Law, said the Federal Trade Commission will take a close look at the potential impacts of the divestiture in every region, including Alaska.
When two giant companies merge, federal antitrust laws could kick in, prompting the companies to sell off some stores in order to please the Federal Trade Commission. That's currently the plan for Kroger and Albertsons. On Friday, the two companies announced an agreement to sell 413 stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers, including 104 in Washington state. The companies added that no stores will close as a result of the merger. Douglas Ross, professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.
Because ethics is both subjective and not legally binding, they can readily be trumped by capitalist imperatives, said Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law and a former member of the ethics board at Axon.
Bob Gomulkiewicz, a University of Washington law professor who teaches a class on the First Amendment, doesn’t see the Kennedy ruling as quite that significant. He said the ruling is consistent with decades of Supreme Court precedent saying teachers and students don’t “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” as a seminal 1969 case put it.
Zahr Said, who teaches tort law at the University of Washington School of Law, agreed Hawaiian Electric could be seeking to shift not just blame in a general sense but legal liability.
Opponents of the capital gains tax in Washington state are not giving up. Conservative think tank Freedom Foundation asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to hear an appeal in another bid to overturn the state’s new capital gains tax law. Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“Law enforcement officers have discretion in the sense that they hold the video (and) they control whether or not there is an ongoing investigation,” said Mary Fan, a law professor at the University of Washington School of Law and an expert on police body camera policies across the country.
ChatGPT and other next-generation strains of artificial intelligence have revolutionized the tech world over the past year, and policymakers are ramping up their efforts to respond. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“RICO laws punish more severely the participation in a criminal enterprise to commit a series of crimes, recognizing the greater harms posed by a group of people acting with the purpose of committing multiple crimes,” Mary Fan, a law professor at the University of Washington, explained in an email.
Zahr Said, a University of Washington law professor, said she started getting pulled aside for extra screenings and questioning during a period in 2017 when she was traveling to a series of work conferences and to Canada with her son.
Structural issues prevent those with lower incomes and people of color from showing up for jury service. The state is trying to fix it, but progress is slow. Bill Bailey, assistant teaching professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“Regulation of AI is essential,” Sam Altman, chief executive of technology firm OpenAI, told U.S. senators this May during a hearing on artificial intelligence. Many tech experts and nonexperts agree, and the clamor for legal guard rails around AI is rising. This year, the European Union is expected to pass its first broad AI laws after more than two years of debate. China already has AI regulations in place. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“Regardless of how the cases are resolved — guilty, innocent, or hung jury — people are more likely to trust the process and the outcomes if they’ve had access to and seen the evidence, seen the witnesses testify, and heard the arguments,” Feldman said.
Police accountability advocates question whether departments are moving fast enough to get officers through the program, which is required under a measure voters approved in 2018. David B. Owens, assistant professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
KALW Podcast "Your Call" discusses the recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision against the Navajo Nation in a major water rights case. Professor Monte Mills is a guest.
"The questions arising in this case have a profound and deep impact on the progress of civil rights," University of Washington law professor Theo Myhre said in a video explaining the verdict.
David B. Owens, an assistant professor of law at the University of Washington and a partner at the Chicago-based civil rights firm Loevy & Loevy, said the public list is a welcome, but not radical, change. Other prosecutors in major cities like Brooklyn’s Eric Gonzalez and Baltimore’s Marylin Mosby also have published similar lists.
A Florida jury awarded $800,000 in damages to a 7-year-old girl on Wednesday for the suffering and mental anguish caused when a Chicken McNugget fell on her thigh, causing a second-degree burn. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
The most recent loan forgiveness plan seems to be on a more solid legal footing, according to University of Washington law professor Hugh Spitzer, based on borrowers being in an income-driven repayment plan for lower earners.
“I think chair Khan is ideologically motivated. She wants to change merger law in the U.S. fundamentally,” said Douglas Ross, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law and a former attorney in the antitrust division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's bid to temporarily block Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard must clear some key hurdles to succeed, legal experts said. Douglas Ross, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
"Since last October, when I raised a red flag about hype in the artificial intelligence field, investor enthusiasm has only grown exponentially (as have public fears). Wall Street and venture investors are pouring billions of dollars into AI startups — Microsoft alone made a $10-billion investment in OpenAI, the firm that produced the ChatGPT bot," writes business columnist Michael Hiltzik. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
A Tennessee doctor who issued bogus COVID vaccine exemption cards just surrendered his license following a Jesse Jones investigation. Patricia Kuszler, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
