“It would be oversimplifying the case to say that these are parents who've been charged with manslaughter based on their son committing a school shooting — and leave out the critical distinct facts about this particular case. The details just make it seem that there was a callous disregard for the danger or possible danger.” 

 “Reputable producers would want to collaborate with her and make sure that she was involved. Some elements of her story could be protected by copyright and other forms of intellectual property, and trying to adapt the story without her permission would be risky.” 

“It’s a period of massive uncertainty for Google, where they’re not sure what their business practices are going to look like in two or three years.” 

“The suspension of the talks last week, when the studios walked away, was a classic negotiation ploy. We are in Hollywood, and this is good acting: ‘I’m offended. I’m appalled. There’s no way we could ever give up this money,’ We will see how fast they can get back to the table. They’ve made progress and I don’t think either side wants to throw that all away.” 

“The state has to pursue bolder measures to tackle the housing crisis, even if they’re unpopular. The principal thing leading to higher housing costs is lack of supply. The legislature is focusing on the small things it can control without making people upset. They need to put the city in a position where more housing can get built.” 

“Maryland has said that it is going to use the tax revenue for educational programs, and I think this is a very good policy to achieve a more distributional goal for the state government. If a new tax has policy problems, then of course we have to litigate it. But when ITFA (Internet Tax Freedom Act) is the only thing standing in the way of a state tax, then that proves problematic.”

"It seems clear that Mr. Trump’s lawyers will argue that the attorney general and the court overstepped here because there were no clear victims in this case. But, even if showing a victim were necessary, here the banks were victims because had they known the true value of Mr. Trump’s assets they would have been able to charge a higher interest rate on their loans.” e much-deserved compensation to the people who were subjected to it.”

“Users would be deprived of a platform that they already had access to and have come to rely on. I'm pretty skeptical of any sort of congressional defense of the First Amendment rights of users being respected here. Without legislative findings of fact, that charge that you're overcorrecting a problem that you haven't even proven really exists, is a sort of one-two punch that the law is susceptible to." 

“Extreme cases make bad policy. When you legislate around something that is an extremely unlikely case scenario, you sometimes don’t think about the typical scenario.” 

“An awful lot of people are hurt by these laws. While New York and other states like to pretend that these are wealthy people, the people who are most hurt by this rule are often people of modest income, middle income, people who can’t afford lawyers.” 

"These laws could cause Trump problems depending on what happens with his sentence and whether a particular country bans people convicted of a comparable crime ... [but] governments of these countries likely have some discretion to waive the prohibition."