Expert analysis on legal issues and cases in the news.
Host June Grasso speaks with prominent attorneys and scholars on the legal stories making news and shaping the world.
Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig, discusses the legal strategy of each side in the second impeachment trial of former President Trump. Robin Effron, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, discusses how the Supreme Court will handle a case involving Trump’s use of his personal Twitter account for official business now that it's moot. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Commercial trial lawyer David Bissinger, a partner at Bissinger, Oshman & Williams LLP, discusses frustrated investors who are suing online brokerage Robinhood Markets, after getting locked out of trading in frenzied shares like GameStop. Family law attorney Dan Lipschutz, of Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, discusses divorces since Covid 19 and how the rich are using private judges to accelerate the process. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Immigration law expert Rick Su, a professor at the University of North Carolina Law School, discusses President Joe Biden's first major court setback after a Texas federal judge, a Trump appointee, blocked the new administration’s plan to pause deportations of undocumented immigrants for 100 days. Stephanie Barclay, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the Ninth Circuit hearing on a high school football coach who says praying on the field after a game is his constitutional right. June...
Bloomberg Legal Reporter David Yaffe-Bellany discusses how lawyers for the charged Capitol Hill rioters are coming up with defenses for their clients, including blaming former President Trump. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg Supreme Court Reporter Greg Stohr discusses Chief Justice John Roberts’s refusal to preside over Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, giving Republicans an opportunity to focus on the process rather than the charges. Bloomberg Law Reporter Madison Alder discusses why the conservative legal movement is facing a post-Trump reckoning. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Michael Graetz, a professor at Columbia Law School and author of the new book, "The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It," discusses the Supreme Court asking for the Biden administration’s views on a state-against-state clash over billions of dollars in income taxes paid by people who work from home during the Covid-19 pandemic. Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses his interview with New York Attorney General Letitia James, the first woman and Black...
Pat Parenteau, an environmental law professor at Vermont Law School, discusses President Joe Biden kickstarting his environmental agenda. Matthew Schettenhelm, Bloomberg Intelligence Litigation & Government Analyst, discusses why the Supreme Court is likely to let the FCC relax media-ownership limits. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tina Davis, Executive Editor of Bloomberg Legal News, discusses what is facing former President Donald Trump from his finances to legal challenges ahead. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the controversial last minute pardons Trump issued. Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the civil lawsuits Trump is facing. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Michele Goodwin, a professor at the University of California Irvine and author of "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood," discusses a divided U.S. Supreme Court reinstating a requirement that women visit a medical facility to obtain abortion-inducing pills. Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses the death penalty and how an appeal involving the Boston Marathon Bomber will be a test of President Joe Biden's opposition to the death penalty. June Grasso ho...
Shirin Sinnar, a professor at Stanford Law School, discusses whether President Trump can be prosecuted for inciting the Capitol riot. Sinan Aral, a professor at MIT and author of "The Hype Machine," discusses how the signs of violence could be seen in social media well before the riot. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Frank Bowman, a professor at the University of Missouri Law School, discusses the precedents for holding President Trump's second impeachment trial after he leaves office. Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School, discusses the pressure on Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to resign. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses why pop star Taylor Swift was featured prominently during Supreme Court arguments in a case about when government officials can shake off past constitutional violations. John Coffee, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court ordering a new look at the convictions of four men in an insider-trading case involving a scheme to profit from government secrets. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener fo...
Frank Bowman, a professor at the University of Missouri and author of "High Crimes & Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump," discusses the second impeachment of President Trump. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the possible charges against President Trump and the pro-Trump mob that stormed the capitol. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Constitutional law expert Neil Kinkopf, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses the new cases the Supreme Court will take up when it resumes this week. Elections law expert Derek Muller, a professor at the University of Iowa Law School, on what we learned from the 2020 elections. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg Legal Reporter David Yaffe-Bellany discusses the long line of people trying to get a last minute pardon from President Trump and those reportedly on his pardon list. David Pozen, a professor at Columbia Law School who clerked for Judge Merrick Garland, discusses Garland's nomination to be the next Attorney General. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
National security law expert Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the charges the rioters who stormed the Capitol could face and the law enforcement failures. Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig, discusses President Trump's call to Georgia officials to try to change the election results. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the consequences of President Trump's phone call to Georgia election officials and the challenge by Republican lawmakers to the tally of the electoral vote during what is normally a largely ceremonial event. David Sklansky, a professor at Stanford Law School, discusses a federal court ruling that information requests by congressional oversight panels don’t require the approval of majority members. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio....
Thaddeus Pope, a professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, discusses how courts are now recognizing lawsuits over the wrongful prolongation of life. Michele Goodwin, a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, discusses the 13th Amendment and efforts to amend the constitution to remove slavery. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the biggest criminal trials that will take place in 2021 including the trials of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein, Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos and Roger Ng, former Goldman Sachs managing director. Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses the toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken on judges who are experiencing anxiety and coping with the loss of ...
Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the Vermont Law School, discusses the challenges President-elect Joe Biden will face in reversing President Trump's rollback of environmental policies and rules. Robert Iafolla, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses whether employers can mandate that employees get the Covid-19 vaccine. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, discusses the dismissal of Hollywood Weekly Magazine's trademark and copyright lawsuit against Netflix over its hit series "Tiger King." June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Constitutional law expert Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, discusses libertarian groups gearing up for fights with the Biden administration over financial regulations, environmental rules, and new policies to combat the pandemic and the legal docrine that will be front and center. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Audrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass Berry & Sims, discusses the Supreme Court agreeing to hear whether the National Collegiate Athletic Association violated federal antitrust laws by limiting compensation for college athletes. Harry First, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses the antitrust case against Facebook. Anat Alon-Beck, an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve Law School, discusses the case against TikTok. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/l...
Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses Joe Biden's choices for Attorney General. Brad Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses the resignation of William Barr as Attorney General and the repercussions. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Election law expert Derek Muller, a professor at the University of Iowa Law School, discusses the Electoral College confirming Joe Biden's win over President Trump and possible challenges by Trump and his allies. Joshua Mitts, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses his study illustrating how executives use prearranged stock sale plans to unload shares on days when their companies release good news. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jonathan Macey, a professor at Yale Law School, discusses whether the Supreme Court will allow lawsuits to go forward by shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac seeking billions of dollars. Mary-Christine Sungaila, leader of the appellate practice at Buchalter, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments in a pair of cases over whether families of Holocaust victims can sue foreign countries in the U.S. for seizing property from Jewish citizens during World War II. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio...
Paul Heeringa, counsel at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, discusses oral arguments where Supreme Court justices struggled to apply a decades-old federal ban on robocalls in a lawsuit accusing Facebook Inc. of repeatedly sending unwanted text messages. Lydia Wheeler, Senior Reporter at Bloomberg Law, discusses life insurance companies refusing to sell life insurance policies to survivors of Covid-19. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the feud between billionaire Bill Gross and his Laguna Beach neighbor, tech entrepreneur Mark Towfiq, that involves everything from a TV shoot for the HBO series “Ballers” to the music from "Gilligan's Island." Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses a judge restoring DACA. June Grasso host See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments involving a clash over human-rights lawsuits, and whether former child slaves could sue Nestle SA’s U.S. unit and Cargill Inc. of complicity in the use of child slavery on Ivory Coast cocoa farms. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s push to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census. June Grasso hosts. See omnys...
David Thaw, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, discusses the first time the Supreme Court has considered a broad interpretation of the country's main anti-hacking law. Michael Carlinsky, the global head of complex litigation at Quinn Emanuel, discusses his client, Mirae Global Asset Investment Co.’s successful move to nix a $5.8 billion purchase of 15 luxury U.S. hotels from Dajia Insurance Co. after arguing the coronavirus outbreak drained value from the transaction. June G...
