Month: May 2016

An unusual legal case between Gawker Media and former professional wrestler and entertainer Hulk Hogan became that much more unusual over the past few weeks. The dust up began when Gawker posted a sex tape of Hulk Hogan on their website without his consent. Hogan followed that publication with a lawsuit aimed at Gawker alleging privacy violations. Gawker argued that it was in the public interest. A jury disagreed with that interpretation and found in favor of Hogan rewarding him $140 million, a number with a high degree of sticker shock. Gawker has now appealed the ruling. As the...

At the heart of the American story is the simple truth that all children should have a fair chance at success, no matter who they are or where they come from. Central to this promise of opportunity is the love and support of a family – which all children deserve, but not enough have. On any given day, there are over 400,000 children in our nation’s foster care system with over 100,000 waiting to be adopted. Every year, 23,000 of these youth will age out of the system never having found a permanent home. Young people who age out...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination, sat down for a hearing on the status of diversity in the technology industry and their findings were unsurprising. Their report, Diversity in the Tech Industry, indicates that women and minorities are highly under-represented in the industry, particularly in Silicon Valley, which serves as the pulse for tech. In Santa Clara County, where many of the top high tech firms are headquartered, whites and Asian Americans each comprised around 45 percent of the total high tech workforce, totaling about 90 percent. That means, on...