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North Carolina judge election set to shift after court rules | Bloomberg Law
UCLA School of Law Professor Rick Hasen said the decision, which comes roughly five months after votes were cast, could raise claims under the U.S. Constitution. “There also may be a revival of the Fourth Circuit federal case — to me this has remedies of Roe v. Alabama, where a state court appeared to violate due process in changing the rules for a state election after the fact,” he said. “The state courts may be violating federal law by disenfranchising voters in this way.” (Hasen was also featured by MSNBC.)
Trump says tariffs will accelerate reshoring. Experts disagree | CNBC
The latest levies are seen as “fluid and fickle” because they are based on executive orders from the president and were not done through Congress, said Christopher Tang, distinguished professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Syria’s return to the fold | NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday”
“There are potential benefits that could be in the works if Arab states actually get some returns for this normalization. So the hope is that it would bring more humanitarian relief and eventually reconstruction to a country devastated by the civil war where over 90% of the population live under the poverty line,” said UCLA’s Dalia Dassa Kaye.
The causes and effects of stress | KCAL-TV
“We have to think about what stress is. Stress is basically your body’s alarm that goes off when you feel threatened, when you feel overwhelmed. And also, just even when you feel pulled in too many different directions,” said UCLA’s April Thames.
Some doctors are seeing measles for the first time | New York Times
Doctors are now working to quickly get each other back up to speed. At UCLA Health, attending physicians lecture residents and medical students on how to spot signs of an infection that are harder to recognize, like small white dots that can show up inside an infected patient’s cheeks. (UCLA’s Dr. Sanchi Malhotra and Dr. Ishminder Kaur were featured.)
Do Californians, like, really have an accent? | LAist 89.3-FM’s “AirTalk”
“There are many California accents. So, you can have somebody who’s a young Latino kid from the East L.A. side is as much a California accent as you have a 100-year-old person from Santa Monica,” said UCLA’s Norma Mendoza-Denton (approx. 1:40 mark).
After the fires, Rick Caruso aspires to a new role in L.A. | New York Times
“The optics are terrible,” said Stephen Commins, a lecturer at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied the government response to disasters. “I could write you a long script of everything that went wrong in the city of L.A. But jumping into the dog pile and pummeling people, or acting like you are a parallel government, is very destructive.”
L.A.’s ‘mansion tax’ needs a remodel. Here’s how to fix it | Los Angeles Times
(Commentary co-written by UCLA’s Michael Manville and Shane Phillips) Despite its nickname, ULA isn’t just a tax on mansions. It applies to nearly every property priced over $5 million, including apartment buildings, offices, soundstages, hotels and shopping centers — places Angelenos live, work and shop.
Ts Madison helps formerly incarcerated Black trans women | NBC News
Transgender people — especially Black trans women — experience homelessness at disproportionately high rates. A study published in 2020 by the Williams Institute at UCLA Law found 8% of trans adults reported recent homelessness, compared to 1% of cisgender straight adults.
