UCLA in the News May 16, 2025

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Walmart, other retailers to boost prices as tariffs hit shoppers | L.A. Times

Lee Ohanian, an economics professor at UCLA, suspects the U.S. will be able to reach agreements with other countries to keep potential tariff disruptions at a minimum. “I’m optimistic that this is getting all worked out,” Ohanian said, adding that “everybody loses in a tariff war, and other countries are relatively bigger losers from this than we are.”

Voters say they won't forget N.C. GOP tried to trash their ballots | Salon

Richard Hasen, the endowed chair in law at UCLA, praised Myers’ ruling as an “important statement” in the face of growing attempts at election subversion. He told Salon that the changes the state courts proposed were rooted in “a misreading or mangling of election law” and that the remedy they approved would have treated “similarly situated voters differently based on where they live in the state and how they are likely to vote.”

Judge is first to rule Trump's Alien Enemies Act use is justified | CBS News

Ahilan Arulanantham, a University of California, Los Angeles Law School professor who has worked on cases involving the Alien Enemies Act, called Haines’ ruling “wrong on a couple of key points.” He says it gives too much legal weight to the fact that the Trump administration considers Tren de Aragua a foreign terrorist organization, calling it “deeply misguided” and at odds with other rulings on terrorism designations.

2 California weather offices no longer provide 24/7 warnings | S.F. Chronicle

The interruption to continuous weather coverage is “the biggest deal we’ve seen so far,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. “These are offices that have both dealt with major wildfire episodes most of the past 10 years, and we are now entering fire season. That's a big, big problem.”

U.S. moves Russian scientist’s case to Boston criminal court | N.Y. Times

Typically, the government determines initially whether an act is criminal, and criminal prosecution takes priority, said Ingrid Eagly, co-director of the Criminal Justice Program at the UCLA School of Law. Once the individual has been prosecuted, she said, the authorities can move to remove them from the country.

Easing therapies for some prostate, cervical cancers | Reuters

If randomized studies and longer follow-up confirm the results, “this approach could remove a major barrier to post-surgery radiation therapy,” study leader Dr. Amar Kishan of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA said in a statement.