February 14, 2025 - WalletHub
Professor Emeritus Richard Alderman was interviewed by WalletHub discussing second chance credit cards.....Second chance credit cards are for people with bad or no credit. They are designed to offer you a credit card even if you have a low credit score and made financial mistakes in the past.
February 13, 2025 - ktrh.iheart.com
Cyber-attacks have become more prevalent in the last decade, as the rise of the internet has been met with hackers, bad actors, and attacks that can cripple entire businesses.....Nikolas Guggenberger of the University of Houston Law Center says the exposure and potential for attack stems from the world wide web being such a vital piece of infrastructure.
February 07, 2025 - USA Today
Seth Chandler, a foundation professor at University of Houston Law Center, said hospitals are having to navigate the “new gloves-off immigration enforcement” and traditional hospital regard for patient privacy and having an orderly hospital.
February 06, 2025 - Texas Standard
“This from a time perspective, limits criminal prosecutors’ power,” said David Kwok, an associate professor at the University of Houston Law Center. “But if these really are serious issues, we might imagine that the TEC might be prompt about their process.”
February 04, 2025 - Bloomberg Law
In targeting tariffs on imports across-the-board, Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act but it’s not clear that the law grants him that authority....IEEPA is also a national security statute and courts tend to be quite deferential when the president is invoking his powers for national security reasons, said Emily Berman, a constitutional law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
February 04, 2025 - Westlaw
Texas higher education institutions are parsing through a flurry of executive orders from President Donald Trump's first weeks in office, as changes to DEI, green energy and immigration policies, to name a few, could impact existing diversity offices and trillions of dollars in federal research and project funding......There's a lot of gray area," said Emily Berman, a University of Houston law professor who serves as an officer with the university's AAUP..."That may be the point, because ... you can create a real chilling effect on all kinds of things by issuing big, broad statements like that. And I definitely know specific instances of people saying, 'I'm just going to let that project sit for a while and see what happens.'"
February 03, 2025 - Westlaw
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Citizen and Immigration Services have spent $7.8 billion on immigration technologies from 263 different companies since 2020.....Peter Salib, an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center said he, too, believes AI can streamline a lot about the immigration process.
February 01, 2025 - MSN
Peter Salib, an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center said he, too, believes AI can streamline a lot about the immigration process. If your goal is to target immigrants who have committed serious crimes, as was policy under the Biden and Obama administrations, he said, AI can probably help you do that well.
January 30, 2025 - Latin Times
"It seems ICE is concerned with publishing quantity and not quality as they have been detaining people who already have a hearing scheduled in the near future without any criminal history and have not shown that they will not appear for their hearings," said immigration lawyer and professor of Practice at the University of Houston Law Center Rehan Alimohammad to The Latin Times.
January 28, 2025 - Houston Public Media
The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they relate to society today. “The 27th Amendment, ratified in 1992, prohibits Congress from increasing it’s salaries while currently serving in office; any increases would only take effect after the next election.”
January 24, 2025 - Fortune
“President Trump’s executive orders represent one of the most sweeping rollbacks of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in modern history,” says Seth J. Chandler, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center. “By targeting not only federal operations but also private contractors and federally funded institutions, these orders reshape the legal and operational landscape ...
January 23, 2025 - KTRK-ABC13 Houston
"If you are physically born here, you are a citizen of the United States, and that decision has gone unchallenged for 130 years," said constitutional law expert Seth Chandler....."If President Trump wants to change immigration law, he needs to do it the right way, and the right way is to do a constitutional amendment; it's not something you can just change by executive order because you don't like birthright citizenship," Chandler said.
January 23, 2025 - Usbek & Rica (French Publication)
There is also a lack of clarity about the very nature of DOGE. “It is not a real federal department, since its creation was not subject to a mandatory vote by Congress,” Nikolas Guggenberger, assistant professor of law at the University of Houston, explains to us. “It is rather an informal working group within the executive branch, without clear authority or formal power.”
January 17, 2025 - Westlaw
Students competed at each school last week before qualifying to perform at the finals Friday. Students performed in the nearly-150 year old church in front of friends and family, judges including U.S. District Court Judge George Hanks, UH Dean of UH Law Center Dean Leonard Baynes, and NAACP Chapter executive director Yolanda Smith, as well as state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles and Jacqueline Bostic, the great-grandaughter of Antioch's first Rev. John Henry Yates.
January 17, 2025 - Westlaw
With Donald Trump returning to the White House the day after the ban is set to take effect, it remains to be seen if and how the new administration will enforce the law. University of Houston law professor Nikolas Guggenberger said it will be interesting to watch how Trump will act given that he did not sign the ban into law, enforcing it will be an unpopular decision among the app's 170 million users, and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to attend his inauguration.
January 16, 2025 - American Prospect
Professor Nikolas Guggenberger co-authored an op-ed for American Prospect discussing how one monopoly company should not have the power to decree which speech is permissible and which isn’t.
January 15, 2025 - The19th News
This bill in Congress would have that effect. Through this legislation, Congress is trying to define what gender discrimination is based on traditional gender norms, said Seth Chandler, a constitutional law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
January 10, 2025 - ABC13 Houston
Professor Sandra Guerra Thompson was interviewed by KTRK (ABC-13, Houston). She discusses Judge Natalia Cornelio of the 351st District Court, who the state wants removed from presiding over the appeal of Ronald Haskell's death penalty case......"It's usually defendants who are challenging the impartiality of a judge," she said. "In general, it's usually not a good strategy to antagonize a judge, and it's also just not something that we would we see because we normally have pretty high standards of decorum."
January 04, 2025 - Westlaw
The Houston Chronicle published an interview with Professor Lauren Simpson on how our home gardens support pollinators and other wildlife......She meticulously identifies each species she finds, also posting the names of plants on which they are chewing, pupating, nectaring, laying eggs, being parasitic or predaceous, or just resting. “When I choose plants, I always look at what species use it,” she said. “Wildscaping is not a hard type of gardening. It’s just a different type.”
