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.
Spencer Waller, a professor at Loyola University of Chicago, discusses the Justice Department urging a federal appeals court to put on hold a judge’s order that would force Qualcomm Inc, to change how it licenses its patents, putting the Trump Administration on the opposite side of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Robert Mintz, former federal prosecutor and a partner at McCarter & English, discusses a federal judge’s decision to deny bail to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier accused of child sex trafficking, finding that Epstein poses a danger to the community. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst for Anti-trust Litigation Jennifer Rie discusses the testimony this week from the four biggest US tech firms, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple as they defended themselves against a range of concerns from lawmakers at a House Antitrust subcommittee hearing. She speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
South Texas College of Law Professor Josh Blackman discusses the record for the federal government’s lawyers in the past Supreme Court term. The Solicitor General’s office posted a better record than last term in cases in which it was a party to—but it still barely passed the 50-50 mark, winning twelve cases and losing ten. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Leon Fresco, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Immigration Litigation at the Department of Justice discusses President Donald Trump’s move to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants who cross the U.S. southern border. He speaks with Blooomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Steven Schwinn, a professor at the John Marshall Law School, discusses the skeptical response of two of three federal judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to President Trump’s attempt to keep Congress’s hands off his financial records. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wayne State University Law School Professor Peter Henning discusses possible settlement costs for lawsuits against Bayer claiming the embattled German company’s weedkiller Roundup causes cancer and the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into whether Johnson & Johnson lied to the public about the possible cancer risks of its talcum powder. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Steve Sanders, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law, discusses why a federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit by the attorneys general of Maryland and Washington D.C., accusing President Trump of illegally profiting from his Washington hotel. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey discusses the fate of Obamacare in the courts and why Massachusetts is one of the states defending the law in federal court. She speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg News Legal reporter Patricia Hurtado discusses the sex-trafficking charges against fund manager Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein wants a federal judge to find that the charges against him unsealed in New York are pre-empted by a controversial plea deal the financier struck with prosecutors in Florida more than a decade ago. She speaks to Bloomberg's June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dr. Claudy Op den Kamp, Senior Lecturer in Film at the Faculty Member Centre for the Intellectual Property Policy & Management, at Bournemouth University, discusses her book "A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects." She speaks with Bloomberg's June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Andrew Harris, Bloomberg News Legal Reporter, discusses how the Justice Department is exploring ways to include a citizenship question onthe U.S. census as President Donald Trump vows to fight on after the Supreme Court put the plan on hold. He speaks with host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg News Legal Reporter, discusses how a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s plan to jail immigrants seeking asylum, and deny them bail if they crossed the U.S. border without permission. He speaks with host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Josh Blackman, Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law, gives a Scotus recap. He speaks with Bloomberg Law host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, discusses how Chief Justice John Roberts refused to overturn precedent in a case dealing with the power of federal agencies, siding with the liberal justices in a 5-4 decision. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Intellectual property attorney Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, discusses why a legal loophole may mean some the most recognizable instrumental solos in rock music … are up for grabs. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wayne State University Law School Professor Peter Henning disccuses the U.S. investigation of an international network of traders suspected of infiltrating banks and companies to glean confidential information on megadeals. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg News Supreme Court reporter, Greg Stohr, discusses the Supreme Court’s final rulings backing partisan voting maps and temporarily blocking the Trump administration’s plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig discusses the upcoming testimony next month from Special Counsel Robert Mueller before the House Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees setting up what is sure to be one of the most dramatic hearings of the Trump presidency. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Cramer, Managing Director of the Berkeley Research Group, discusses why forrmer National Security Adviser Michael Flynn may have one goal in replacing his longtime criminal defense attorneys this month with the politically provocative Sidney Powell -- to win a pardon from his old boss, President Donald Trump. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg News Supreme Court reporter Greg Stohr discusses the decades long legal saga involving the death sentence of a Mississippi man convicted at his sixth trial for the same murders after the prosecutor repeatedly excluded black people from the jury. The Supreme Court threw out the sentence citing bias in choosing the jury. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Steve Sanders, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law, discusses how the Supreme Court next term could wipe out lower-court rulings that shield LGBTQ people from getting fired for who they are. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wayne State University Law School Professor Peter Henning discusses the Johnson & Johnson California talc-cancer case that will now go before a second jury because the first jury couldn’t agree whether a dying woman was eligible for punitive damages after finding that the company’s talc products caused her illness. The jury did find the companies products caused her cancer and awarded her 12 million dollars. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...
Cornell Law School Professor Robert Hockett discussess the legality of President Trump demoting or firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell after Bloomberg reported exclusively the president talked about firing him in February. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg News Supreme Court reporter, Greg Stohr, discusses the court’s decisions today not to change double jeopardy doctrines, upholding a uranium-mining ban and sending a dispute over a gay-wedding cake back to the lower court. He talks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kartikay Mehrotra , Bloomberg News legal reporter, discusses how President Trump’s attempts to loosen climate standards have been stymied by the courts for two years on procedural grounds, leading the administration to now try following the rules to achieve its environmental deregulation agenda. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg Law Editor, Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, discusses why Trump’s Solicitor General, Noel Francisco, has an almost perfect record this term on the recommendations he makes to the justices about what cases the Supreme Court should take up next term. She speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg News Miami bureau chief Jonathan Levin discusses lawsuits in U.S. courts by Cuban exiles to demand compensation for property lost to the communist government. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the lawsuit by a group of states to block T-Mobile US Inc.’s proposed takeover of Sprint Corp. on antitrust grounds, putting pressure on the Justice Department as it nears a final decision on the merger of the two wireless carriers. She speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg News Supreme Court reporter Greg Stohr discusses the end of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term which include looming decisions that could affect the 2020 election and thrust the court even deeper into the nation’s political wars. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
