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February 11, 2008 | Vol. XI, Issue 21


Faculty Scholarship & Activities

MillsJon L. Mills
Professor; Director of Center for Governmental Responsibility; Dean Emeritus

  • Argued the Indian Gaming case before the Florida Supreme Court representing the current speaker of the house.


SiebeckerMichael Siebecker
Assistant Professor

  • Published a chapter in The First Amendment Handbook 2007-2008 (Rodney Smolla ed.), entitled "Corporate Speech, Securities Regulation and an Institutional Approach to the First Amendment." The Handbook, published by ThomsonWest, provides a collection of the most notable articles on First Amendment law published in the last year.
  • In a recent Massachusetts case, Bulldog Investors v. Galvin, the court cited Siebecker (and his article mentioned above) as authority for denying a hedge fund's claim that its solicitation efforts were political speech under the First Amendment. Siebecker has previously been quoted extensively in an industry periodical, Hedge World Daily, about the same case.

UF Law Faculty in the News

DekleGeorge R. "Bob" Dekle
Legal Skills Professor

  • Miami Herald, Feb. 1. Quoted in the article discussing the competency of a 12-year-old boy accused of beating his 17-month-old cousin to death with a baseball bat. A second doctor has been brought into the case to examine this young boy for competency in understanding fully the legal proceedings. Dekle, a former prosecutor, said the standard for competency is the same regardless of age. “It's whether or not you can understand the nature of the charge and be able to discuss your case in a meaningful fashion with your lawyer and manifest appropriate courtroom behavior,'” he said. Dekle also said the issue becomes trickier with young people. “It has to do with life experience,'' he said. “And the older you get, the more you've been exposed to, the more sophisticated you become, hopefully.”

PageWilliam H. Page
Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar in Electronic Communications and Administrative Law; Professor

  • National Journal’s Technology Daily, Jan. 30. Quoted in this journal on the implications of the recent extension of the Microsoft antitrust judgment.

SloboginChristopher Slobogin
Stephen C. O’Connell Chair; Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry; Adjunct Professor, University of South Florida Mental Health Institute; Associate Director, Center for Children and Families

  • The Aero News Network, Feb. 8. Quoted in an article discussing the recent interest the Candian government has shown in implementing a safety program in airports that includes a microexpression screening, in which video cameras feed images of passengers' faces to computers, which are programmed to analyze not only 10,000 individual facial movements, but even the subject's skin temperature. The article discusses the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) “Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques" or SPOT program, which identified 70,000 travelers exhibiting suspicious behavior, and 700 of them were arrested after being pulled aside for more detailed questioning. Of the TSA's success claims in the U.S., Slobogin suggested that the program's one per cent arrest rate proves little, pointing out that the 700 arrests reported in 2006 were typically made on routine matters such as outstanding warrants, immigration violations, and other non-terrorism-related charges.

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