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  1. Bloomberg Law

    Professor Harold Krent Breaks Down SCOTUS Case That Could Decide Fate of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

    “Under the 2010 law that created the agency, Congress gave it an open-ended funding mechanism which would actually be drawn from another agency, the Fed,” said Harold Krent, professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “So the argument was (that) this is somewhat of an unusual appropriations decision ... and both sides had a hard time finding some kind of line to draw to distinguish permissible congressional appropriations from impermissible ones.”

  2. WealthManagement.com

    Robinhood Decision Represents ‘Perfect Storm’ Between Aggressive Securities Regulator and State Court That Recognizes the Investor Protection Questions at Stake

    “I think (the ruling) creates not only precedent for the future, but also space for more breathing room and other aggressive and innovative state regulators to follow along a similar sort of path,” said James Tierney, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

  3. The Intercept

    Police Decertification Can't Be Effective Tool for Reform While It's So Difficult, Says Associate Professor Raff Donelson

    “Decertification has to be easier if it’s to work as an independent way to get police reform,” said Raff Donelson, an associate professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, drawing a contrast to criminal prosecutions as an accountability mechanism. We have one set of rules for figuring out whether to take away your freedom,” he said, and “a different set of rules about whether you should do a job.”

  4. Financial Times

    Many Law Firms Remain Skittish About Adopting AI, Says Professor Daniel Martin Katz

    When market pioneer ChatGPT first became available, many prospective users of legal generative AI tech — law firms and in-house legal departments — suffered from “Fomo”, or fear of missing out, according to Dan Katz, a professor at Chicago Kent College of Law, who leads the school’s legal tech centre. But that early enthusiasm has given way to “Fud” — fear, uncertainty and doubt — he says.

  5. Bloomberg Law

    Commute Accommodations for Disabilities Spur Federal Court Rift, Says Nicole Buonocore Porter

    How courts define commute-related accommodation requests often dictates the results, said Nicole Buonocore Porter, a disability law scholar who directs the Martin H. Malin Institute for Law & the Workplace at Chicago-Kent College of Law. When courts view the commute as outside the workplace, they tend to hold that employers don’t have a duty to grant commute-related accommodations, Porter said. Courts tend to have that “knee-jerk reaction” in part because federal wage and hour law doesn’t require pay for the time getting to and from the job, she said.

  6. Ipse Dixit

    Chicago-Kent College of Law Assistant Professor Jordana Goodman on Attribution Norms

    “I look at who was hired at a law firm and who is actively practicing in that law firm as my baseline, and then I look to the gender gap of who is signing office actions and patent applications — that is, who is getting credit,” Assistant Professor Jordana Goodman said about her research, which has been published in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. “That is the gap that I am talking about, the gap between people who are present and people who are credited.”

  7. NBC5 Chicago

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Harold Krent Calls Fourth Indictment of Former President “Mind Blowing”

    “President Trump faces four trials, possibly within five months. How can he focus on campaigning during that time?” said Harold Krent, professor of law at Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law. “Maybe it doesn’t matter, but we will still have to see.”

  8. WealthManagement.com

    Legal Battle Between FINRA and Frequent Foe Could Be a 'Headshot' For the Regulator, Says James Tierney

    “Ten years ago, these arguments (that threaten the regulatory authority of FINRA) were frivolous,” said James Tierney, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and a former in-house attorney for the SEC. “But the Supreme Court has made enough room for (them) to take hold.”

  9. Daily Beast

    Trump’s Longshot Plan for a West Virginia Trial Isn’t Exactly Hopeless, Says Henry H. Perritt Jr.

    “It’s a long shot, but it’s not frivolous,” said Henry H. Perritt Jr., the former dean of Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he is now professor emeritus. “The notion that the original venue is not suitable is not a shocking idea. It’s provided for in federal rules. If the defendant can show that the prejudice is so great in the original venue that the defendant cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial, then the judge must transfer it to another venue.”

  10. Science

    Lori Andrews: Lacks Family’s Settlement Could Help Some Patients Whose Tissues Were Commercialized Win Redress

    “In Henrietta Lacks’s case, there were lots of benefits to the company which markets many versions of the cells—and no consent from her for their use,” said lawyer Lori Andrews of the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “But the Lacks family didn’t give money or other resources to researchers. ... The question remains whether giving tissue alone would be enough to win an unjust enrichment claim in court. That’s important because the key issue going forward in my mind is: When patients or their families bring such cases, what level of involvement is needed to be considered a benefit?”