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Seton Hall Law in the Media
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For media inquiries, contact
Janet LeMonnier,
Director of Communications, at the
Office of Public Relations
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WCBS-TV
"The McGreevy Divorce Proceedings"
May 6, 2008
http://wcbstv.com
Professor Kevin Kelly shared his perspective on
the contentious divorce trial of former New Jersey
Governor Jim McGreevy and Dina Matos McGreevy, as Mr.
McGreevy fights for joint custody of their daughter,
Jacqueline. Professor Kelly commented that joint custody
"works best when couples agree to it on their own...so I
think he has an uphill battle in that regard, given the
fact that these parents have shown that they don't get
along that well." |
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The New York Times online
"Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in U.S. Custody"
May 5, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com
Professor Bryan Lonegan was interviewed for a
video that accompanied the front-page story regarding
the death of Boubacar Bah, a tailor from Guinea who was
held in an immigration detention center in New York and
died from an untreated head injury. His family had no
knowledge of his whereabouts or condition until after
his death. Professor Lonegan commented that this was not
uncommon. "I've never seen an instance in which ICE
[Immigration and Customs Enforcement] demonstrated
respect for the families of detainees."
 Watch the
video here:
http://video.on.nytimes.com |
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The Australian
"First Signs of the Coming Famine"
April 26, 2008
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.auProfessor
Frank Pasquale was quoted in an article about the
food riots that took place in recent weeks in Egypt,
Yemen, Haiti, and many other countries, portending a
potential worldwide famine. Professor Pasquale discusses
the urgent need to stem this disturbing trend. "There's
something really massively wrong when people are forced
to eat mud...the world simply cannot sit and watch this
happen. People like (Indian economist) Amartya Sen might
say there has never been a famine in a democracy but
what we're seeing here could be a world first. " |
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The Village Voice
"Bush's Gitmo Justric Creates a Legal Black Hole"
April 22, 2008
http://www.villagevoice.com
Professor Baher Azmy was quoted in an article
about Murat Kurnaz, the Turkish-born German citizen who
was detained at Guantánamo and shared his ordeal in a
memoir, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in
Guantánamo. Professor Azmy provided the
epilogue to the book and reporter Nat Hentoff describes
his experience of seeing Kurnaz free for the first time.
"Azmy writes: "'In the incredible excitement of that
very long day, including a 3 a.m. rush into the Kurnaz
home past a swarm of waiting journalists, I remember one
thing more clearly than any other. During the many hours
that Murat and I had spent together in Guantánamo, his
ankle had always been chained to the floor. That day,
for the first time, I saw Murat walk.'" |
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NJN-TV
"Due Process"
April 20, 2008
http://www.njn.netThis award-winning weekly show featuring topical issues
in law and justice profiled Professor Mark Denbeaux's
first-year law student research fellows and their
work on the internationally renowned Guantánamo Reports.
Student Anthony Torntore opens the segment with his
observation, "The war on terror is unlike any war we've
ever seen before, and we may not see an end to it."
Students Adam Deutsch, Gabrielle Hughes,
Jim Hlavenka, Brianna Kostecka, Michael
Patterson and Tony Torntore discuss their
experiences working on the insightful and controversial
Guantanamo Reports. |
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New Jersey Lawyer
"Five Justices Refute Rumor that Court Sandbagged
Executions"
April 18, 2008
http://www.njlnews.com
Seton Hall Law's day-long conference on New Jersey's
abolition of the death penalty served as a forum for
former State Supreme Court Justices to share their
retrospective views of the law that was repealed in
November, 2007. During the conferences justices asserted
that there was no organized attempt to avoid the
invoking the death penalty in capital murder cases.
Former Chief Justice Zazzali's changed point of view was
highlighted in the article: "Former Chief Justice James
R. Zazzali upheld the death penalty when he was an
assistant prosecutor in Essex County decades ago, but
said his personal attitude toward capital punishment
started changing when he looked around the world and it
seemed only 'rogue nations' are applying the death
penalty." |
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BNA’s Life Sciences Law &
Industry
“ABA Revised Model Rules Said to Influence Disclosure
of Clinical Trial False Statements”
April 11, 2008
Professor Carl Coleman was quoted in an article
about the perceived ambiguity of changing
client-attorney privilege rules in the case of clinical
trials, impacted by recent changes in the ABA’s Model
Rules of Professional Conduct. Professor Coleman
discussed the issue in terms of disclosure to the Food &
Drug Administration in the investigational new drug and
new drug application process. “It’s important to note
that the FDA is not directly involved in the approval
process, which may result in a different application of
the professional conduct rules,” he said. |
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The Village Voice
"The Long Goodbye"
April 8, 2008
Professor Bryan Lonegan is cited in an article
about the case of Haitian immigrant, Jean Montrevil, who
served jail time 20 years for dealing drugs, but now
faces deportation for that crime despite his having run
successful businesses and raising a family. Professor
Lonegan refers to the justice system toward immigrants
as "'a two-tiered system...in which lawful residents are
punished far more harshly than their citizen
counterparts for even the most trivial offenses." |
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New Jersey Law Journal
"Contentious Conventions"
April 7, 2008
Professor John Wefing's article looks back 40
years when the Democratic National Convention was
steeped in controversy. New Jersey Gov. Richard Hughes
presided over the Special Committee on Civil Rights and
the Credentials Committee, which recommended decisions
regarding delegates based on fairness and equality, and
which advanced our nation's entire civil rights
movement. Those decisions, cost Hughes the vice
presidential nomination, though today we would applaud
them. "...when asked whether he wished he had been more
cautious in his decisions so as not to have
offended...Hughes responded that he did what he thought
was right. Let us hope that, if the 2008 convention ends
up with disputes over delegates, there is a Credentials
Committee chair who will emulate Hughes and choose to do
what is right." |
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The New York Times
"Lawsuit Challenges Immigration Raids in New Jersey"
April 4, 2008
This article describes the lawsuit filed by
Seton
Hall Law's Center for Social Justice (CSJ)
against the Department of Homeland Security for their
late-night home raids of residents and citizens, who
were detained and in some cases abused in the
Department's efforts to track down and deport alleged
unlawful immigrants. Practitioner in Residence Bassina
Farbenblum is leading the suit along with other CSJ
professors and students. |
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Reuters
"US Immigration Raids Violated Constitution -- Suit"
April 4, 2008
http://www.reuters.com
Professor Bassina Farbenblum was quoted in an
article regarding the lawsuit that the Center for Social
Justice filed against the Department of Homeland
Security to stop the late-night raids of immigrants'
homes, many of which agents conducted without warrants,
using undue violence and abuse. "Our complaint shows
that what happened to our plaintiffs in the middle of
the night ... was part of a routine, widespread
practice, condoned at the highest levels."
[Immigration Home Raids in New Jersey Information Page] |
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The Record
"Preventing Another Subprime Fiasco"
April 1, 2008
Professor Paula Franzese's co-authored editorial
offers solutions to the nation's current subprime
crisis. They place the blame on the financial services
industry, which loaned money to people who were
desperate for the cash but would have never had the
means to repay the debts. "The indecent conduct of an
industry allowed to devolve into a Wild West of shell
games, snake oils and theft-by-mortgage has left
countless Americans without a home, and every taxpayer
destined to clean up the mess. We need a new sheriff in
town." |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Jessica Rogers, Paralyzed in Accident, Crusades
for Road-Rage Legislation"
April 1, 2008
http://www.philly.com/inquirer
Prof. Bill Baroni, also a New Jersey State Senator,
talks of the bill he is sponsoring to outlaw road rage,
legislation championed by road rage victim Jessica
Rogers. "Jessica has truly been our hero on this,
and we absolutely see her leading the way" in testimony
in Trenton, Baroni said. |
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Bloomberg Radio
"The Final Word"
March 26, 2008
Prof. Linda Fisher commented on Senator Barack
Obama's speech on the economy which he presented in New
York City, and spoke in favor of his proposal for
government intervention as citizens suffer home
foreclosures in the wake of the subprime mortgage crash.
"Our history as a nation has shown that frequently in
times of crisis the federal government has intervened
fairly aggressively to stem the tide, which has proven
quite effective." |
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60 Minutes
"Ex-Terror Detainee Says U.S. Tortured Him"
March 30, 2008
http://www.cbsnews.com
Prof. Baher Azmy was featured in a profile of
Murat Kurnaz, Professor Azmy's client, a Turkish citizen
who was detained at Guantánamo from 2001 to 2006.
Professor Azmy commented on the arduous process of
gaining Mr. Kurnaz's freedom. "...in Guantánamo, no
detainee has ever been able to genuinely present
evidence before a neutral judge. And so as absurd as
Murat Kurnaz's case is, I assure you there are many,
many dozens just as tenuous."
[Murat Kurnaz -
Guantánamo Case Information Page] |
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The Press of Atlantic
City
"CRDA Approves $1.5 Million Grant for Seton Hall
Project"
March 19, 2008
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com
Associate
Dean Erik Lillquist was quoted in an article
regarding a grant to the law school to build housing for
students in downtown Newark via the Casino Reinvestment
Development Authority (CRDA). In light of Seton
Hall Law's Catholic affiliation, Dean Lillquist asserted
that the grant does not violate the Constitutional
separation of church and state. "'It's housing,'
said Lillquist in an interview, 'it's not a place for us
to do official religious programs.'" |
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New York Newsday
"Seton Hall Law Prof Teams with 'NYPD Blue' Producer
on TNT"
March 13, 2008
http://www.newsday.com
Professor David Feige was featured in an article
about his new project, a television series he is
co-writing with renowned producer, Stephen Bochco, that
casts a realistic view on the life of a public defender.
"I feel like the last 20 years have wildly misportrayed
the criminal justice system and what public defenders
do," he commented. |
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The Star Ledger
"Couple Asked to Be Tried Together"
March 11, 2008
http://www.nj.com/starledger
Associate Dean Erik Lillquist was quoted in an
article about two recent alleged manslaughter cases in
New Jersey, in which individuals died after the
defendants chose not to call for emergency services.
""The general rule in American law is that you do not
have a duty to rescue as a matter of criminal law,"
stated Dean Lillquist, noting that, "In some
well-defined circumstances, there is an exception to
that rule." |
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Mistaken identity, courtroom drama"
February 19, 2008
http://www.philly.com
Associate Dean Erik Lillquist was quoted in an
article about a complicated murder trial and a judge's
refusal to recuse himself when the prosecution claimed
he was biased. Dean Lillquist pointed out the judge's
role is to remain objective. "As long as he can assure
the parties that he will be . . . it's within his
discretion to deny the recusal motion," he commented. |
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The New York Times
"Guantánamo, Evil and Zany in Pop Culture"
February 18, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com
Professor Baher Azmy was mentioned in an article in the New York Times about the effect of Guantánamo on our popular culture, including a memoir published by his client, Murat Kurnaz, a detainee who was released in 2006. A Pentagon spokesman dismissed Kurnaz's writing as a deception of a Al Qaeda operative. Azmy responded by producing the text of an FBI memorandum which stated, "There is no information that Kurnaz received any military training or is associated with the Taliban or Al Qaeda.”
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IEEE Spectrum
January 29, 2008
Laws governing the practices of Internet search engines,
such as Google and Yahoo!, are still in the formation
stage. In this article Professor Frank Pasquale
comments that if search engines warrant the same
free-speech rights as a newspaper, then regulating its
content, including ads and search results, would be
difficult. "Google's biggest weapons, in terms of not
being regulated, are the First Amendment and trade
secrecy." |
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NewsDay
January 28, 2008
http://www.newsday.com
Professor Bassina Farbenblum of the Center for
Social Justice commented on the lawsuit the Center filed
under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain documents
detailing reported home raids of immigrants. "Often the
individuals arrested in a raid have lived in the U.S.
for years, raised U.S.-citizen children, worked hard,
paid taxes and established community ties," she noted. |
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The Star Ledger
January 26, 2008
Associate Dean John Kip Cornwell was interviewed
in an article regarding how current and future capitol
murder cases will be tried differently with the
elimination of the death penalty. Dean Cornwell
commented, "In most heinous crimes, this probably does
remove some of the leverage that prosecutors have to try
to secure a plea," noting that they may need to consider
offering a deal that carries a penalty less stringent
than a life sentence without possibility of parole. |
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The Record
January 24, 2008
http://www.northjersey.com
Associate Professor Thomas Healy was quoted in
The Record regarding the arrest of former Bogota, NJ
mayor, Steve Lonegan, who picketed a high school where
Governor Corzine was holding a meeting to promote his
proposed highway toll hikes. Professor Healy commented,
"If a school opens ups its facilities for the public as
a place for expressive activity, then it generally can't
block people from speaking at that place because of
their viewpoint." |
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Courier-Post
“Independents Could Decide N.J. Primary”
January 17, 2008
http://www.courierpostonline.com
Professor Mark Alexander, who is serving as
director of Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign in New Jersey,
was interviewed for the article about the role
independent voters could play in the N.J. primary. “We
are certainly trying to get out message out to all
voters and New Jersey does have a large number of voters
who are unaffiliated,” said Professor Alexander. |
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The Record
“Campaign Planned to Aid Day Laborers”
January 15, 2008
http://www.northjersey.com
Professor Bryan Lonegan was interviewed for this
article about a recent meeting held at Seton Hall Law
focusing on protecting day laborers from exploitation.
The campaign, said Professor Lonegan, “is really about
human dignity, the right to work and the right to get
paid for that work.” |
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Pegasusnews.com
“Dallas Activists Join International Protest Against
Guantanamo Bay Prison”
January 12, 2008
http://www.pegasusnews.com
Seton Hall Law’s Guantanamo Reports were cited in
this article about a recent protest in Dallas calling
for the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The
article noted that those reports confirmed that roughly
only 8 percent of the detainees has been shown to have
connections to terrorist activities. |
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Baltimore Sun
“Is Everything on the Internet up for Grabs?”
January 6, 2008
http://www.baltimoresun.com
Professor Frank Pasquale was quoted in this
article about what sort of material posted on the
Internet is protected as intellectual property. As an
example, he noted, that if a picture is taken from a
site without permission it is an infringement of
intellectual property protections. |
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For previous years, see the media archives:
[2005] [2006]
[2007] |
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