Professor Lisa Ikemoto commented for a Jan. 31 San Francisco Standard story on Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh, a San Ramon-based fertility doctor who has built a reputation for helping women get pregnant and has been nicknamed the “egg whisperer.”
On March 4, law students Max Kohn ’26 and Kiar Rivers ’26 argued on behalf of a Civil Rights Clinic client before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. The panel was comprised of Ninth Circuit Judges Milan D. Smith Jr. and Ryan Nelson, and Brian Morris, the Chief Judge of the District of Montana, sitting by designation.
The Civil Rights Clinic prevailed on behalf of its client in a case decided on May 29 by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. In Campbellv. Herrera, the appeals court affirmed the trial judge’s order denying qualified immunity to four prison health care providers.
For the second time in a month, students from the Civil Rights Clinic argued in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. Alice Chang ’25 and Dominique Kato ’25 appeared before a panel of judges on April 1. The panel comprised Andrew Hurwitz, Lucy Koh and Anthony Johnstone.
Judge Esmeralda Zendejas ’06 is the first graduate of the King Hall Outreach Program (KHOP) known to have become a judge. After being appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom in February 2023, she serves on the bench of the San Joaquin Superior Court in Stockton, California. In 2024, she administered the State Oath at King Hall’s annual swearing-in ceremony. Before her appointment, she had most recently served as an attorney at the Department of Industrial Relations since 2022 and as a Deputy Attorney General at the California Attorney General’s Office from 2020 to 2022.
Subjecting incarcerated people to extreme temperatures is “akin to torture,” Professor Carter White told the Washington Post in a July 30 story about a lack of air conditioning or other cooling measures in many state and federal prisons.
On Aug. 15, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a published opinion in Chambers v. Herrera, No. 20-55004. The court held that the Civil Rights Clinic’s client, a former federal prisoner, may continue to pursue his Bivens claim for deprivation of medical care, but that his other claims were no longer viable in light of the recent Supreme Court decision in Egbert v. Boule.
On April 15, Danya Hofnor '21 and Bretton Laudeman '21 argued on behalf of a Civil Rights Clinic client before a Ninth Circuit panel. On April 21, the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of the clinic's client.
On Nov. 19, Ameil Kenkare '21 argued on behalf of a Civil Rights Clinic client before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
