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Scarborough County? UCI rescinded its offer to make liberal legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky dean of its new law school because the frequent media pundit a bit too blue-state for Orange County’s tastes. In particular, he was un-hired following a an Aug. 16 LAT Op/Ed piece that said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was “about to adopt an unnecessary and mean-spirited regulation that will make it harder for those on death row to have their cases reviewed in federal court.”