Professor James J. Brudney was quoted in a New York Times story regarding the United Steelworkers merging with the largest union in Britain and Ireland. The new union will now represent 2.8 million steelworkers globally, according to the report. “A labor relations expert at Ohio State University’s law school, James J. Brudney, called the merger ‘an overdue and important step considering the global nature of manufacturing.’ While it ‘is a first step toward developing a more comprehensive strategy toward globalization,’ Mr. Brudney said, ‘the challenges remain daunting.’

Professor Peter Swire was quoted in a San Francisco Bay Guardian Online story about pharmacies selling pharmaceutical companies personal medical information. “But according to Peter Swire, who was Clinton's chief privacy counselor and helped draft the legislation, the law permits pharmacies to contract with outside firms to engage in reminder campaigns. As originally drafted, the law included an opt-out. But the George W. Bush administration ditched it in 2002, weakening the law. Swire said Calderon's bill appeared to be an attempt to "shift California law to the federal standards."

Professor Douglas Berman was quoted in a Washington Times story about a man convicted of a drug deal who Washington prosecutors are trying to keep in jail for 40 years. "The rules encourage prosecutors to lack humility," said Douglas Berman, an expert on criminal sentencing and a law professor at Ohio State University. "An acquittal should be a humbling experience. My sense is they sometimes view acquittal as an annoyance they have to work around."

Professor Douglas A. Berman was quoted in an Associated Press story about the Supreme Court’s recent rulings regarding the death penalty. "This presents not just an opportunity, but an obligation to develop arguments with evidence about less-than-perfect protocols," said Douglas Berman, a law professor and death penalty expert at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law. "And those states inclined to tweak their protocols may be setting themselves up for further litigation by people who will say 'Hey, they changed their protocols so that must mean there's something wrong with them.'"

Professor Douglas A. Berman was quoted in the New York Sun story following the Supreme Court’s ruling that Washington, D.C.’s, handgun ban was unconstitutional. "The label felon is so broad and so oppressive that maybe it makes a useful shorthand when we assume guns are bad," a law professor at Ohio State who has written on this issue on his influential legal blog, Douglas Berman, said. "But essentially Heller says the Framers thought guns were good and that guns are good in part to protect a basic civil right of self- defense."

Professor Peter Swire was interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered for a story about whether employers have the right to read text messages sent by employees even if the employer is paying for the service. “A lot of people now have cell phones that are web-enabled and those are your own thing and now if you are doing your personal business that is your personal time. It is a big step safer if you use your personal equipment and not your company-provided equipment,” he said.

Professor Edward Lee was quoted in a Wall Street Journal blog post regarding a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and how it may carry over to other legal fields. “But over at the Utube blog, Edward Lee, an IP prof at Ohio State U.’s Moritz College of Law, argues that, for technology companies dealing with “speech-related technologies,” the Court’s Heller opinion could be good news. “If the Court interprets the Free Press clause in a parallel manner to the way it has interpreted the Second Amendment,” writes Lee, “it is very possible that Congress’s present or future attempts to regulate speech technologies under copyright law could be unconstitutional.”