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Yale Law School
Research scholar at Yale Law School, focusing on questions of prosecutorial misconduct around the country
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Laura Fernandez
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FROM Laura Fernandez
Which Way, L.A.?
Is Law Enforcement Skirting the Rules? A federal investigation of possible misconduct by the District Attorney and the Sheriff of Orange County has been called for by a group of legal heavyweights. They include 30 law professors, led by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at UC Irvine.
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Who are the political players in the LA teachers strike? Thousands of LA public school teachers are going to be back out on the picket lines for a second day. They walked off the job Monday after failing to reach a contract agreement with the LA Unified School District, despite months of negotiations.
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No end in sight More than 800,000 federal employees continue to go without pay in what could soon be the longest government shutdown yet.
KCRW Features
What are LA parents doing with their kids during the strike? During the teacher strike, a lot of students are not going to class. According to the district’s tally, about 163,000 turned up for school Tuesday, out of a total of about half a million. Some are spending their time on the picket line. Older students might go study at Starbucks or play hooky. But the parents of younger children in L.A.