Professor Marc Spindelman was quoted in The Detroit News about a Michigan Supreme Court ruling that prevents public institutions from offering gay couples health coverage. “The ruling gives the state marriage amendment ‘the most sweeping reading possible,’ said Marc Spindelman, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan. Spindelman, an expert on constitutional law, sex equality and lesbian and gay rights, said the court's reading of Proposal 2 ‘does maximal damage to the equal rights of lesbians and gay men.’”

Professor Douglas A. Berman was quoted in the Houston Chronicle. The story concerned a federal appeals court ruling that victims of a 2005 BP explosion had their rights violated by federal prosecutors and a judge. The story states: “Doug Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University who writes a sentencing blog, said victims can be problems for prosecutors. ‘The dirty little secret is that prosecutors are happy to take advantage of victims when it serves their relatively parochial interest,’ Berman said. ‘But they can also create a lot of headaches for prosecutors.’”

Professor Douglas A. Berman was quoted in U.S. News & World Report in a story regarding a man sentenced to 330 years in prison for a white-collar crime. "When I first saw the headline, I said, 'Is that right—years? They must mean months,' " says Douglas Berman, a sentencing expert and law professor at Ohio State University. Berman, who has written about the sentence on his blog, calls it the longest he has seen since the Supreme Court ruled that federal sentencing guidelines were advisory—rather than mandatory—in 2005.

Professor Peter Swire was quoted in a WBNS-10TV, Columbus, story regarding information being stolen from computers connected to a Internet “hot spot.” The story states: “Ohio State University law professor and privacy expert Peter Swire said that looking at someone's information on a free, public Web site is OK but stealing that information is where the crime starts. ‘Once you've set up the password - once you've tried to encrypt it - if the bad guys come and try to break it, that violates what's called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18USC1030 - and that's a hack attack,’ Swire said.”

Professor Douglas A. Berman was quoted in a New York Times story about Roger Clemens admitting that he has made mistakes in his personal life. Berman comments on how the news could affect a defamation lawsuit Clemens has filed against his former trainer. The story states: “Douglas A. Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University, said in a telephone interview, ‘There is likely to be a lot of digging into the girlfriends and anything else the defense can get its hands on in an effort to show Clemens’s character and image were not really as great as he claimed in the suit.’”

Professor Steven Huefner was quoted in a Columbus Dispatch story about the legalities associated with the possible impeachment of the Ohio Attorney General. The story states: “The constitution says an officeholder can be impeached ‘for any misdemeanor in office,’ but that doesn't necessarily refer to a crime, said Steven F. Huefner, an associate law professor at Ohio State University, and Steven H. Steinglass, a law professor and dean emeritus at Cleveland State University.”

Professor Edward Lee was quoted in a Columbus Dispatch story about companies starting that promise to improve customers’ “online images.” Lee commented about the legalities of tracking down who is responsible for online comments made anonymously. The story states: “‘It's costly to litigate, of course, and it may not be worth the while of an individual,’ said Edward Lee, an Ohio State University law professor who studies Internet law. ‘And it's still not even clear, using the subpoena, if the information would be attainable.’”