Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Washington, David Owens, began the Teach-In by focusing on the renewed presence of activism that gained traction in 2020 after the death of George Floyd as well as the optimistic results of protests nationwide
The amicus brief was filed by Professor Whiteman Runs Him; Professor Monte Mills, Native American Law Center at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ; Professor Dylan R. Hedden-Nicely, University of Idaho College of Law; and John Echohawk, Steven C. Moore, David L. Gover, Ada Montague Stepleton, Joe Tenorio, Morgan E. Saunders, Wesley James Furlong, and Sydney Tarzwell at the Native American Rights Fund.
“I don’t think there are lots of big health care mergers waiting to happen,” said Douglas Ross, a University of Washington law professor who maintains the bill’s provisions are onerous and unnecessary.
Liberty Lake politicians this month could change city law to reduce the authority of the library board, a five-member group of appointed volunteers that sets policy and has the final say over which books belong on the shelves. Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Part of what courts do when deciding matters of fair use is to weigh the potential harms of a new way of using content against its benefits, says Inyoung Cheong, a legal scholar at the University of Washington. It could take years for all of the cases against generative-AI companies to conclude, she adds.
A conservative legal advocacy organization is suing to halt the nearly $17 billion transportation funding bill passed by the Washington Legislature and signed by Gov. Jay Inslee last year. The organization, the Citizen Action Defense Fund, argued in a filing Tuesday that the 16-year transportation revenue package contains multiple subjects that lack “rational unity,” and because of that, it violates the state constitution. Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the UW, is referenced.
Hugh Spitzer, constitutional law professor at the University of Washington, said courts have also tossed laws passed by lawmakers in Olympia, adding that they tend to relate to transportation.
The University of Washington School of Medicine and the UW School of Law will no longer participate in U.S. News & World Report's once prestigious university rankings.
In the past few months, the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection has been the target of SEC probes, falling sales and questions regarding copyright protection. Zahr Said, professor of law at the UW, is mentioned.
The message from those who had seen the video of Memphis police officers beating a 29-year-old Black man was both clear and chilling: It would be heartbreaking to watch what happened to Tyre Nichols. Anticipation for the release of the video on Friday, which showed the Jan. 7 violence against Nichols three days before he would die, brought headlines about violence and another nationwide reflection on American policing and the use of body-cam footage to prevent fatal police encounters. Mary Fan, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
In June 2022, nine members of weaponized drone maker Axon Enterprise’s ethics board left their posts after the company chose to move forward with a Taser-equipped drone project they had recently voted against. Now, the company is facing new criticism from the resigned advisors this week, as its inaugural TASERCON conference for law enforcement kicked off, featuring sessions such as “Weapons of Mass Construction” that promote the use of police technology. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Until now, Monte Mills had never seen a state try to promulgate rules that stem directly from Herrera v. Wyoming, a U.S. Supreme Court decision that recognized a Crow tribal member’s right to hunt unoccupied, off-reservation land ceded by a 1868 treaty. On Thursday, Mills, professor of law and director of the Native American Law Center at the UW, reviewed a draft of House Bill 83 – Tribal agreements to hunt and fish, which attempts to translate the high court’s decision into state law.
The Washington state Supreme Court will hear arguments this week on whether a statewide tax on capital gains in excess of $250,000 is lawful. The capital gains tax, approved by the legislature and signed by Gov. Jay Inslee two years ago, made waves in the tech industry since it targets stocks, which can be a key part of compensation for workers. Last year, a Douglas County Superior Court judge struck the law down on the grounds that it violated Washington’s constitutional mandate for taxes to be applied uniformly. Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
It was a classic Nike ad — a celebration of women and sports in conjunction with International Women’s Day that was so inspiring and beautifully shot it could bring tears to your eyes. “One day, we won’t need a day to celebrate how far we’ve come,” a young female narrator states in the voice-over. “We won’t need a day to prove we’re just as strong and fast and skilled.” The 2021 campaign made no mention of the fact that a group of women employees were suing the company, alleging widespread sex discrimination, harassment and an $11,000-per-year gender pay gap. It didn’t say that for three years Nike had been waging a fierce courtroom fight to keep a trove of internal documents under seal and out of the public eye. Jeff Feldman, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
The American Law Institute’s Council voted today to approve the launch of a Restatement of the Law project on Election Litigation. The project will be led by Reporters Lisa Manheim of the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ and Derek T. Muller of the University of Iowa College of Law.
The group, which consists of eight generals who served in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003 and 2017, filed an amicus brief on Wednesday calling for the high court to find that the social media giants can be held liable under the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which creates a cause of action against individuals and entities that aid and abet terrorism.
Eric Schnapper, a University of Washington law professor who is one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs in both cases, said in an interview that the arguments were narrow enough that they wouldn’t change wide swaths of the internet. “The whole system doesn’t break down,” he said.
Jeff Feldman, a University of Washington law professor and expert in civil procedure, said he’s never heard of a discovery process taking as long as in the Nike case – approaching five years now.
This could be the week when grocery chain Albertsons learns whether it can go ahead and pay $4 billion to its shareholders. The payment was planned when Albertsons and rival Kroger announced they were merging last fall. But the Washington Attorney General’s Office is trying to block payment until the merger is completed. Douglas Ross, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“If the recent reports are true, President Biden’s lawyers promptly reported and returned the classified documents that they found to the National Archives. That conduct is not consistent with an intent to retain the documents,” said Jeff Feldman, a professor from practice at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ. “By contrast, President Trump held onto the documents, refused to return them, and alternately claimed that the documents were his, and not the government’s, and that they weren’t classified because he deemed them unclassified when he removed them.
"This episode of Why Don’t We Know was done in collaboration with the Spencer Education fellowship at Columbia University, where host Sara Ganim was a fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year. Additionally, a companion piece ran in USA Today, elaborating on specific cases, with insight from other experts, lawyers and students who have been presented with these agreements."
“From the tribal perspective, this is laying the groundwork for some meaningful negotiation and dialogue and agreement,” Mills told WyoFile. “Under Herrera, the rights are there under federal law — there isn’t a requirement for a state [hunting or fishing] license — so the implementation and cooperation around how that works is really important. That’s where these agreements are really important.”
"The basic theory is the companies shouldn't get immunity for that process of matching vulnerable people with highly problematic content," Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, told KUOW. "And who knows what the Supreme Court will do."
Seattle Public Schools and the Kent School District are suing social media companies for the role their platforms have played in a youth mental health crisis. The lawsuits claim Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube have violated Washington's public nuisance law and exploited students. The districts seem to be the first in the nation to take on such a case. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
