Professor Allen spoke with Deborah Zith today at the Tampa Tribune for a feature piece about discrimination lawsuits. Her story asks, what happens when a customer can’t use a facility because of sexual discrimination and should fitness clubs like Curves be allowed to discriminate against men.
Dean Ellen Podgor spoke with Nathan Koppel at the Wall Street Journal today regarding deferred prosecution agreements. Link to Dean Podgor’s commentary for the Wall Street Journal from the WSJ blogsite.
Options Play
Dean Podgor spoke with Dan Fisher at Forbes magazine for insights into a project he is working on regarding options cases. The article regarding backdating scandals, “Options Play,” ran August 17.
Someone you could trust?
Dean Podgor spoke with Kevin Shay from Gazette newspapers about a white collar criminal being given an appeal bond.
Big setback for jailed truck driver
Professor Robert Batey spoke with Fox 13’s Doug Smith about inappropriate contact with a judge for a story for the 10 p.m. newscast.
Dean Podgor did a live interview with a radio station in Vancouver, Canada, on Martha Stewart.
Professor Robert Batey appeared live on Fox 13’s televised program “Your Turn” on the Lawrence Storer decision and the issue of vigilante justice.
Injuries As Infant May Have Killed Girl
Dave Sommers of the Tampa Tribune interviewed Adjunct Professor Nick Cox today. Twenty years ago, a man was sentenced to prison for aggravated child abuse. The infant suffered severe brain damage. The child, now a young teen, has just died. The coroner has ruled his death resulted from those injuries. The prosecutor wants to try the parent on homicide charges.
Feds Run Ashore in Nigerian Barge Case
Dean Ellen Podgor was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal blog on the 5th Circuit overturning the Enron Barge/Merrill Lynch verdicts.
Hillsborough: ‘Excusable homicide’ makes a free man
Professor Robert Batey talked with Carrie Weimar this afternoon at the St. Petersburg Times regarding the decision in the Lawrence Storer case, finding Storer not guilty of manslaughter for running down a robber with his car.
Professor Batey did an interview with WMNF radio anchor Roxanne Escobales on the Lawrence Storer decision and vigilante justice that should run this evening between 6 to 7 p.m. Listen from the link to the August 3 newscast.
Professor Batey joined Kathy Fountain’s Your Turn panel in the Fox studios to discuss the Storer decision and Stand Your Ground laws during the 12:30 p.m. program on Channel 13.