Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote a post in TomDispatch.com about immigration policies under the Trump administration. I remember him (barely) as a thin, bald, little old man with a white mustache and a cane. As I write this, I’m looking at a photo of him in 1947, holding the hand of little Tommy Engelhardt who had just turned three that very July day. They’re on a street somewhere in Brooklyn, New York, Tommy in shorts and a T-shirt and his grandfather, Moore (that wasn’t his original name), wearing a suit and tie.…
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Susan Scafidi was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about the copyright infringement case between the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets and Coogi. In the 12 years since the rapper known as Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls was murdered, fans and entertainers from Drake to Lamar Odom have sported the multicolored Coogi sweaters he wore and rapped about. The NBA’s Brooklyn Nets pays homage with its ‘Brooklyn Camo,’ a Biggie-inspired pattern on team garb and jerseys—a move that has landed the team in litigation. In taking on the NBA, Nike Inc. and others, Coogi is making a case beyond copyright infringement. It’s…
4L evening student Akilah Browne, who recently received a Skadden Fellowship, has been named among the nominees for the National Jurist’s “Law Student of the Year”. Naming a Law School Student of the Year is among this magazine’s greatest challenges because there are so many smart, passionate, worthy students who could be honored. If you have any doubts about the next generation of lawyers, we can show you a stack of nominating letters describing students who have overcome a host of obstacles and are resolved to helping others. … Also honored was Akilah Browne, a Fordham University School of Law…
Susan Scafidi, director of the Fashion Law Institute, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about corporate organizations relaxing their dress codes in recent years. Over decades, expensive suits have projected power on Wall Street, almost like a piece of “armor,” said Susan Scafidi, academic director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University. Women at work who feel pressure to prove they deserve to be in the room might be wary of ditching their blazers and pumps. “We’ve just achieved the parity of the pantsuit, and suddenly we’re told the standard pantsuit is no longer standard workforce attire,”…
Adjunct Professor James Keyte was interviewed by Bloomberg Markets regarding the European Union imposing a third antitrust fine on Google. The law is quite different in the U.S. than in the EU and the systems are quite different. In the EU they don’t have to go to court, they don’t have to get a judge to agree with them. Here they will have to go to court and get a judge to impose that fine. Watch full video.
Andrew Kent was quoted in the Washington Post about the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, President Trump appeared to signal openness to full release of the Mueller report. Some reporters are interpreting this to mean that Trump and his advisers are confident that it will be far less damaging than expected. … Andrew Kent, a professor at Fordham University School of Law, tells me that the real test will reside in how the White House reacts to that effort. Trump, in consultation with his lawyers, could instruct the attorney general not to…
Professor Mark Patterson was interviewed by Forbes regarding privacy concerns involving Facebook’s data practices. In February 2019, the German competition regulator, Bundeskartellamt, imposed restrictions on how Facebook may process and combine its users’ data. Assigning WhatsApp, Instagram, and third-party data to Facebook user accounts will no longer by possible without a Facebook user’s voluntary consent. Importantly, the agency characterized the “extent to which Facebook collects, merges and uses data in user accounts” as an “abuse of a dominant position,” and it characterized Facebook’s conduct as an “exploitative abuse.” … What is the significance of consumer ignorance in regard to data…
Joel Reidenberg, founding academic director of the Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy, was quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer about student data privacy. A New Jersey company that collects and sells personal information about consumers told regulators that it did not knowingly possess data on minors, even as it advertised a mailing list of more than a million high school students for sale on its website. ALC Inc., a Princeton-based company, failed to acknowledge the possession of data on minors as required to comply with a Vermont law, the first of its kind in the country. … The advertisement,…
Tanya Hernández was quoted in a CNN article about the recent college admissions cheating scandal. What’s wrong, though, with parents trying to give their kids every edge through legitimate means, asks Rick Hess, an author and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank. … Hess, like some other affirmative action opponents, says he opposes preferential treatment for children of affluent families and donors in admissions. So does Hernandez, the Fordham professor, who is a defender of allowing colleges to use race as a factor in college admissions. … Tanya Hernandez, a professor at Fordham University’s…
James Cohen was quoted in a USA today article about the recent college admissions cheating scandal. USA TODAY examined pages of court documents filed by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston to find out what prosecutors allege as the reasons why the three have been charged with mail fraud and “honest services mail fraud,” or a scheme “depriving another of the intangible right of honest services.” In other words, by allegedly bribing school officials, they deprived other applicants of a fair chance at admission because the parents paid for those spots, says James Cohen, a law professor…