Subject: Erwin Chemerinsky

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Hiii Chemerinsky!

  The Government has gone Plasma TV crazy: Even though they have an entire cable television channel to carry their lame communications, Santa Ana city officials are spending at least $242,000 more to install 10, 42-inch flat screen TVs at 10 public locations. These TVs will have no sound, and will broadcast city-inspired videos. City Manager David Ream told the Register's Doug Irving that videos will promote "projects we're really proud of." Ream mentioned the privately-owned City Place developme

  September 13, 2007

• Friday's Headlines: Blunt force trauma or natural causes?

  Should UCI Chancellor Michael V. Drake step down? Drake's decision to drop scholar Erwin Chemerinsky for being too liberal to run UC Irvine's new law school has some faculty members calling for his resignation, reports the Times. More folks sue the sheriff: Last week, a Muslim lady sued Sheriff Carona and his department for stripping her of her hijab. Now, the parents of a 19-year-old inmate who died in OC jail alleges that the sheriff's dept. is to blame for their son's death. Danny Blajos die

  September 14, 2007

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Calling Nurse Ratched

  UCI Cluster Fuck: News emerged today that Michael J. Schroeder, OC GOP heavyweight, participated with a group of 20 fellow Republicans to pressure the UCI Chancellor from hiring liberal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky as dean of the university's first law school. Michael V. Drake offered the job to Chemerinksy last month and this week withdrew the offer under murky circumstances. Now, Garrett Therolf and Maura Dolan at the LA Times write this morning that UCI is working on a plan to rehire Chemerinsk

  September 15, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: Register UCI Panic!

  OC Gym Crook Arrested in LA: Police arrested Ronald James Navarrette Jr. of Mission Viejo Friday in El Segundo for breaking into men's lockers at the Spectrum Athletic Club not far from LAX. Gym employees had been on the lookout for the 45-year-old crook they knew from surveillance video taken at other incidents. His dark glasses and black beanie disguise (to cover his bald spot) apparently didn't fool anyone this time. Police say Navarrette, already on parole for burglary, stole wallets from l

  September 16, 2007

• Chemerinsky and Drake kiss and make up

  UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake spent the weekend on his knees, begging Duke's Erwin Chemerinsky to return to the dean's post at UCI's law school after Drake dumped the guy for being too liberal last week. At 10:10 a.m., the Times reported that Drake traveled to Durham, N.C. over the weekend to meet with Chemerinsky, and that the two reached an agreement last night. The deal is expected to be formally announced this morning. One has to wonder if an online petition asking Drake to reconside

  September 17, 2007

• More love for Chemerinsky

  Chapman University announced just a few moments ago that it has locked in recently reinstated UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky to be its law school graduation commencement speaker next year. The announcement is the most recent illustration of Chemerinsky's quick ascension from ashy to classy. Chapman is taking the high ground saying, not only is it ok with Chemerinsky's possible "polarizing" politics, it welcomes them. According to the release, Chapman Law dean John Eastman supports Chem

  September 17, 2007

• OC Conservatives Have Something to Cheer!

  On Monday, Orange County conservative activists lost the fight to block liberal law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky from becoming the first UC Irvine law school dean. But this morning must feel better. The United States Attorney's Office based in Los Angeles announced that it has won a guilty plea from William S. Lerach, a plaintiff's lawyer who successfully sued corporate America in class-action lawsuits. Lerach, a 61-year-old Rancho Santa Fe resident and major campaign contributor to Democrats, now

  September 18, 2007

• Friday's Headlines & Surprises: The Drake Two-Step

  Dancing With the Fibber: UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake has inspired a new dance. We’re calling it the Drake Two-Step, and it goes like this: hire, lie, fire, lie, rehire, wiggle. For a story in today’s Times, Drake admits that he “bungled” the firing last week of Erwin Chemerinsky as dean of the university’s future law school, but he refused to answer a single question on the record about his blatantly inconsistent versions of events. Most noticeably, Drake still won’t expla

  September 21, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines. No Surprises: Last of the Rat Pack

  Last of the Rat Pack: Newport Beach resident Joey Bishop, the last surviving member of the Rat Pack, dies at 89. Coverage: Times, Register. Anti-Semitic UCI probe still on: Yesterday, the Daily Pilot reported that the Hillel Foundation of Orange County called off its investigation of racist activity at UC Irvine. Today, the DP's Joseph Serna reports that the task force the organization assigned to do the job was not consulted about dropping the probe. Task force chairman Jesse Rosenblum says he

  October 18, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: The Shame of Wayne Gross

  Dana Point Gets a Celebrity! Earvin “Magic” Johnson and his wife, Cookie, have purchased a $7.6 million gated-community “vacation” home in Dana Point, according to the Times. Though “Hot Property” reporter Ruth Ryon didn’t share more details about the location, you can assume it’s at the oceanfront Headlands, property owned for decades by the Chandler family, longtime owners of Ryon’s employer. Anyhow, real estate agent Shelley Brown told the paper that Johnson, who lives most

  November 18, 2007

• Hispanic Bar Association Hijinks!

  With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from yesterday's Orange County Hispanic Bar Association annual fundraising dinner: *Greeting the well-dressed, well-coiffed crowd as they drove toward the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel were about eight anti-Mexican whackjobs--and we don't add the "anti-illegal immigrant" qualifier like other journalists because they told more than one cute attorney of Mexican descent to "go home." Spotted was

  March 2, 2008

• What do Lindsay Lohan and Hugh Hewitt Have in Common?

  Although we're no fans of local talk show host Hugh Hewitt, we couldn't help but to feel a twinge of sympathy for the man, who's also a professor of law at Chapman University. The latest edition of the school's Chapman Magaine has a mini-profile on Hewie, whom you can listen to every weekday at 3pm on KRLA-AM 870. In the story, Hugh tells the magazine that the reason his show succeeds is because he respects his audience. "It doesn't have to be about celebrity or salaciousness," Hewitt states, an

  May 12, 2008

• ACLU Sues Laguna Beach for Giving Homeless the Boot

  The ACLU filed a federal civil rights lawsuit today against the city of Laguna Beach for its "unlawful and inhumane policy of harassing and intimidating disabled homeless people." The suit alleges that the city's prolonged arrests of its small, disabled homeless population under the guise of an anti-sleeping ordinance is "blatantly unconstitutional" and criminalizes an otherwise helpless disabled population. Erwin Chemerinsky, chair of UC Irvine's law school, is acting as co-counsel.According t

  December 23, 2008

• OC Shows Respectable Level of Support for Prop. 8 Challenge

  According to the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal and the ACLU, among the Orange County contingent filing "friend of the court" briefs in support of Attorney General Jerry Brown's legal challenge of same-sex marriage barring Proposition 8:Irvine United Congregational ChurchOrange County Asian Pacific Islander Community AllianceThe Center Orange CountyChapman University groups Chapman Outlaw, Chapman Queer-Straight Alliance, Chapman Feminists, and Chapman SPEAK (Students for Peace

  January 22, 2009

• Jury Rigged?

  March 9, 2000

• Monday - 11/19

  “Honesty Is the New Black” at the ARTery, Erwin Chemerinsky at Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

  November 15, 2007

• Who (almost) Dunnit?

  The world may never know who leaned on UCI's Michael Drake to unhire Erwin Chemerinsky

  September 27, 2007

• Laguna Beach Settles Lawsuit Over Homeless Ordinance

  Laguna Beach agreed today to settle a lawsuit over the city's treatment of disabled homeless people, according to the ACLU of Southern California.   "Under the agreement, the city's police officers will not cite, arrest or harass people under state law simply for sleeping in public places, as long as there are no reasonable public health or safety concerns," states a just-released media advisory from the civil rights group. "The agreement also establishes a process for sealing, expungi

  June 25, 2009

• Orange County LGBT Pride Festival "Revival" Starts Small

  Sasha Baron Cohen's comedy has nothing to do with OC pride festivals. We just can't find photos from past fests. ​Orange County's first-ever gay and lesbian pride festival was held in Santa Ana's Centennial Park in 1988, when angry Christian conservatives showed up not because they'd finally come out of the closet (knew it!) but to fling urine-filled balloons, taunt attendees with chants of "Go back to your closet," and cheer on an airplane they'd hired to fly over the event with a banner read

  July 29, 2009

• Resurrected, Boisterous OC Pride Festival "a Smashing Success"

  Photo by Christopher VictorioPark rangers talk with OC Pride participants about the noise at Mason Regional Park in Irvine on Saturday.​The crowd was small but boisterous, there was a minor issue with the noise and some participants did not know at first that the showy police presence was for their benefit, but otherwise the resurrected, family friendly OC Pride Festival at Mason Regional Park in Irvine Saturday was "a smashing success," according to organizers of the LGBT event. (See photogra

  August 17, 2009

• Another Voice May Enter OC Investigative Journalism Fray

  State senator-turned-media-baron Joe Dunn With the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times experiencing shrinking staffs and budgets, another player may fill the perceived investigative news vacuum. The Times reports: A group that includes former state lawmakers, high-profile attorneys and veteran former newspaper reporters plans to launch a nonprofit online news organization to provide watchdog and investigative journalism in Orange County.It's called "The Voice of OC," i

  September 16, 2009

• [BEST OF OC] El Profesor (the Professor): Erwin Chemerinsky

  October 8, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  October 15, 2009

• UPDATED: UCI's Chemerinsky and Chapman's Eastman to Engage in Ultimate "Battle of the Law Deans" Freeway-Series Smackdown

  Courtesy of Chapman UniversityUCI School of Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky (left) and Chapman University School of Law dean John Eastman are friends and often ideological foes. ​UPDATED TO CHANGE LOCATION TO MUCH LARGER MEMORIAL HALL . . . Screw the Dodgers and Angels. More hits, misses and spitballs are guaranteed Sept. 24 when "The Battle of Law School Deans" pits Chapman University School of Law's John Eastman against his counterpart at UC Irvine's brand-spanking new School of Law, Erwin Chemer

  September 17, 2009

• Has the Decline of the Register Created Space for Nonprofit Site the Voice of OC to Put Down Roots?

  October 22, 2009

• UCI's Chemerinsky to Represent Teacher in 'Jesus Glasses' Appeal

  James Corbett​The Register's Scott Martindale reports that the lovably liberal UCI Law dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, will help represent James Corbett in his appeal of the ruling earlier this year that he violated the Constitution by criticizing Creationism in a Capistrano Valley High School classroom.Corbett called Creationism "religious, superstitious nonsense" while teaching AP European History in 2007. Student Chad Farnan sued, alleging religious descrimination based on that comment and 21 othe

  October 27, 2009