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.
We preview the upcoming docket for the U.S. Supreme Court featuring interviews with: Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter Kimberly Robinson, Bloomberg Government Supreme Court Reporter Rick Davis, Bloomberg Politics Contributor Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Bloomberg Politics Contributor Hosted by Bloomberg's Nathan Hager. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Ari Ezra Waldman, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University Law School, discusses the spike in police use of geofence warrants to get location records for all mobile devices within a virtual perimeter. His new book is, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data and Corporate Power." June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses President Joe Biden's latest judicial nominations and the rush to confirm judges. Mark Rifkin, a partner at Wolf Haldenstein who represents consumers in an antitrust action against Apple, discusses the recent ruling in the year long battle between the iPhone maker and Epic Games. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the first trial of parents arrested in the "Varsity Blues" sting for allegedly paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their kids into elite universities. The parents may introduce a spreadsheet kept by USC officials that classified some applicants as a “VIP” because their families made major donations to the school or had some kind of connection. Zyg Plater, a professor at Boston College Law School, discusses the delisting of the snai...
Leah Litman, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, discusses the Justice Department's lawsuit against the state of Texas to block the most restrictive abortion law in the country, after the Supreme Court refused to do so. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Uphill Legal Battle Against Texas Voting Law (Podcast) Elections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the new Texas voting law, which is one of the most restrictive in the country. Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig discusses his new book, "Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke The Prosecutor's Code And Corrupted The Justice Department." June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Carol Sanger, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court allowing the most restrictive abortion law in the country to go into effect. Anne Coughlin, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School who specializes in feminist jurisprudence, discusses the defenses Elizabeth Holmes is expected to raise in her trial for defrauding investors and patients with her defunct blood testing startup Theranos. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School, discusses, the Supreme Court's shadow docket, where decisions are made without full briefing or oral arguments, and how more significant cases are being decided in this way. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses why Arizona is taking the unprecedented step of eliminating peremptory jury instructions. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Holly Barker, Bloomberg Law Senior Legal Reporter, discusses how federal courts have handled the use of gender neutral pronouns. Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law Supreme Court Reporter, discusses President Biden's choice for Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogar, and the upcoming term. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirming its ruling that artist Andy Warhol's series on rock star Prince infringed the copyright of a photo of the star. Lawrence Gostin, director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, discusses lawsuits over vaccine mandates at colleges and universities. June Grasso hosts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...
Neal Devins, a professor at William & Mary Law School, discusses the Supreme Court lifting the Biden administration's eviction moratorium, ending protection for millions of people who have fallen behind on their rent during the pandemic. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Supreme Court ordering the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump administration's Remain in Mexico policy, which forced migrants to wait in Mexico while their asylum claims were processed. J...
Eric Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the legal challenges to school mask mandates. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito putting a temporary hold on the reinstatement of the Trump administration's remain in Mexico policy. Mario Talerico, a partner at Honigman, discusses his group's efforts to raise money to evacuate Afghan workers from a medical clinic under threat in Afghanistan through the GoFundMe page for Operation We Care: G...
Michael Dorf, a professor at Cornell Law School, discusses his article "Whose Court Is It Now?" and the new court with its 6 member conservative majority. June Grasso hosts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Trademark attorney Marsha Gentner of Dykema Gossett discusses the legal implications of the Cleveland Indians baseball team choosing to re-brand itself as the Cleveland Guardians, despite the fact that there is already a Cleveland Guardians roller derby team. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Constitutional law professor Harold Krent of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the upcoming Supreme Court term which includes cases on abortion rights, gun rights, the death penalty and state secrets. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the D.C Court of Appeals ordering the release of a West Virginia man accused of taking part in a pepper spray assault on police at the Capitol riots on January 6th. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/...
Employment law expert Anthony Oncidi, a partner at Proskauer Rose, discusses Tesla paying more than $1 million to a Black former employee who won a ruling that the company failed to stop his supervisors from calling him a racial slur at the electric-car maker’s northern California plant. Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses Congress weighing the first district court expansion since then-Sen. Joe Biden spearheaded the last change decades ago. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/list...
Airplane passengers have done everything from hitting flight attendants in the face to calling in hoax hijacking reports to refusing to wear masks. Alan Levin, Bloomberg News Aviation Reporter, discusses why unruly passengers rarely face criminal charges. David Harris, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School and host of the "Criminal Injustice" podcast, discusses the Justice Department launching a civil-rights investigation into the Phoenix Police Department. June Grasso hosts. Se...
Robert Schwartz, a partner at Quinn Emanuel and co-chair of the Media & Entertainment Industry Practice, discusses Scarlett Johansson's suit against Walt Disney, claiming it broke its promise to release her latest film “Black Widow” only in movie theaters when it made it available for streaming on the Disney+ video service. Anthony Kreis, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses the legal problems the new CDC eviction moratorium faces. June Grasso hosts. See omny...
Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig discusses the legal peril facing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in light of the New York Attorney General’s report corroborating 11 claims of sexual harassment by Cuomo. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Biden Administration's lawsuit against Texas to block the governor's order allowing state troopers to stop anyone who isn't in law enforcement from transporting migrants along the Texas border. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com...
Darryl Brown, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses bail, a part of the criminal justice system, where deals are often made behind closed doors, and which critics say favors the rich. William Banks, a professor at Syracuse University College of Law, discusses two recent moves by the Biden Justice Department, issuing a memo calling for the release of former President Trump's tax returns and releasing handwritten notes showing Trump urging former Acting Attorney Genera...
Christopher Melcher of Walzer Melcher, discusses a victory for Angelina Jolie in her divorce battle with Brad Pitt, with a California appeals court agreeing with her that the private judge deciding who gets custody of their minor children, should be disqualified. Madison Alder, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses progressive groups looking to the next Supreme Court term—in which the justices will take up cases involving abortion, guns and possibly affirmative action—to fire up the base in advanc...
Emily Dooley, Bloomberg Law Staff Correspondent, discusses how a diver, a surfer, a winemaker, and a Frenchman who sunk wine storage cages off the coast of Santa Barbara in an attempt to create the world’s first members-only underwater wine cellar and club, ran into legal troubles. Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses how Matthew Grimes went from Tom Barrack's intern to his protege to his co-defendant. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Constitutional law professor Stephen Vladeck of the University of Texas Law School, discusses the U.S. Justice Department refusing to defend Republican Representative Mo Brooks in a lawsuit alleging that he helped incite the deadly January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, a decision that might mean the department also won’t help protect former President Donald Trump. Audrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass Berry & Sims, discusses a federal judge dismissing a lawsuit a...
Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses why Tiffany settled an eight-year lawsuit with Costco over copyright infringement and counterfeiting after the wholesaler sold a generic diamond ring bearing the “Tiffany” name. Greg Farrell, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses Carey Dunne who spent decades at the top of the New York legal profession, leaving his elite law firm to find the biggest case of his career -- investigating former President Dona...
Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the charges against Trump ally Tom Barrack, the founder of investment firm Colony Capital, that he illegally lobbied the U.S. government on behalf of the United Arab Emirates and lied to the FBI about it. Michael Gerrard, a professor at Columbia Law School and faculty director of Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, discusses his article for Bloomberg Law, "Killer Heat Waves Warrant FEMA...
Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the first prison term resulting from the Capitol riot and defenses being raised. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the implications of a Texas federal judge ruling that DACA is illegal. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ronan McCrea, Professor of Constitutional and European Law at University College London, discusses EU Law and the current controversy with Hungary and Poland. Erin Mulvaney, Senior Legal Reporter at Bloomberg Law, discusses office culture wars escalating as workers balk at return-to-office mandates. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mary Anne Pazanowski, Senior Legal Reporter for Bloomberg Law, discusses how comedian Sacha Baron Cohen won a lawsuit brought by former judge Roy Moore over Cohen’s use of an alleged pedophile detector during an interview...one of several lawsuits Cohen has won over prank interviews. Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond Law School, discusses President Biden's recent judicial nominations. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jonathan Macey, a professor at Yale Law School, discusses business wins and losses at the Supreme Court this past term. Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law Supreme Court reporter, discusses the persistent gender gap at the lectern of the court with male advocates outnumbering female advocates 125 to 28 in the most recent term. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
