Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses Elon Musk's testimony in a Delaware trial over Tesla’s 2016 takeover of SolarCity, continuing to argue that the purchase was a sound decision and that it wasn’t done to benefit himself instead of shareholders. Evan Starr, an assistant professor of management and organization at the University of Maryland, discusses President Joe Biden calling on the FTC to ban or limit employee noncompetes as part of a broad executive order. June Grasso hosts....
Jul 17, 2021•23 min
David Prager, a managing director and head of the U.S. Restructuring Advisory practice at Kroll, discusses the lawsuits that have been filed over the building collapse in Surfside, Florida, Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses President Joe Biden moving to upend decades of policy on migrants seeking asylum. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 15, 2021•30 min
Jim Dempsey of the UC Berkeley School of Law, discusses the lawsuit former President Trump filed against Facebook, Twitter, and Google over their decisions to suspend or ban him from using their platforms. David Yaffe-Bellany, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses why thousands of federal prisoners released to home confinement, are dreading the end of the pandemic. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 13, 2021•23 min
Constitutional law professor Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court's latest term and the influence of the new 6 to 3 conservative majority. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 10, 2021•14 min
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Jul 09, 2021•11 min
Stephen Vladeck, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas Law School, discusses the Supreme Court's term with its new conservative majority. Greg Farrell, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses former President Donald Trump's legal peril. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 08, 2021•32 min
Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers, a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, discusses the unprecedented criminal case against former President Donald Trump’s company and its CFO. Elections expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court upholding two Arizona voting restrictions, limiting the reach of the Voting Rights Act in a decision down ideological lines. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 05, 2021•34 min
Katherine Franke, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court refusing to question the rights of transgender students to use school bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity, rejecting an appeal in a long-running civil rights battle. Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses why Facebook's antitrust win is likely short-lived. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 04, 2021•27 min
Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Supreme Court ruling that certain immigrants awaiting a decision on whether they can stay in the U.S. because they fear torture at home, must be detained while their cases work their way through the system. Bethany Berger, a professor at the University of Connecticut Law School, discusses the Supreme Court ruling against unions on a decades-old regulation that gives union organizers access to agricultural company land for part of the ...
Jul 02, 2021•30 min
David Yaffe-Bellany, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who is fighting the Biden administration, past securities charges, and corruption allegations from his own former staff. Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses how President Joe Biden has confirmed more judicial nominees than any other President since Richard Nixon at this point in the first year of his presidency. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...
Jun 29, 2021•30 min
First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the Supreme Court ruling that a public high school violated the Constitution when it punished a 14-year-old cheerleader for a profane Snapchat rant. Former federal prosecutor George Newhouse of Richards Carrington discusses the Supreme Court ruling that police can’t automatically pursue fleeing misdemeanor suspects into homes without warrants. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 27, 2021•29 min
Audrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass Berry & Sims, discusses the implications of the Supreme Court's decision clearing the way for greater compensation for student-athletes. Jonathan Macey, a professor at Yale Law School, discusses the Supreme Court dealing a blow to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac investors in their challenge to the government’s collection of more than $100 billion in profits from the mortgage giants. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for...
Jun 26, 2021•22 min
Securities litigator Mark Rifkin, a partner at Wolf Haldenstein, discusses the Supreme Court giving Goldman Sachs Group a new chance to stop a lawsuit that accuses the company of misleading shareholders by masking conflicts of interest in mortgage-backed securities it sold. Constitutional law professor Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the justices handing down mixed rulings in narrow wins for the left and right, perhaps showing the newest two justices are m...
Jun 25, 2021•26 min
Constitutional law professor Steve Sanders of Indiana University's Maurer School of Law, discusses the Supreme Court decision that Philadelphia violated the Constitution by excluding a Catholic charity from the city’s foster-care program because the group wouldn’t help place children with same-sex couples. Brandon Barnes, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses a ruling by a federal judge in Louisiana blocking the Biden administration's pause on the sale of new oil and gas le...
Jun 19, 2021•33 min
Constitutional law professor Neil Kinkopf of the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court rejecting the latest Republican attack on Obamacare. Affirmative action expert Susan Sturm, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the implications of the Supreme Court asking the Biden Administration to weigh in on whether it should take on a challenge to Harvard College’s use of race as an admissions factor. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...
Jun 18, 2021•20 min
Erik Feldman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, discusses the American father-son duo charged with orchestrating former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's dramatic escape from Japan, pleading guilty in a Tokyo court. Securities attorney Robert Heim, a partner at Tarter, Krinsky & Drogan, discusses why the SEC is being urged to tread carefully as it considers toughening rules that allow corporate executives to regularly unload stock through scheduling plans. Robert Iafolla...
Jun 17, 2021•26 min
National security law expert William Banks, a professor at Syracuse University College of Law, discusses the controversy over revelations the Justice Department under former President Donald Trump had secretly subpoenaed records from House Democrats, former White House counsel Don McGahn and members of the media. Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the race to be Manhattan’s next top prosecutor. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 15, 2021•28 min
Ruth Colker, a professor of constitutional law and disability discrimination at Ohio State University, discusses whether sports organizations should have to give their star athletes, like tennis star Naomi Osaka, modifications or reasonable accommodations for mental health reasons. Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson discusses the Supreme Court decisions that the court will rule on before the end of the term in June. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 12, 2021•26 min
David Yaffe-Bellany, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses how amateur internet sleuths have turned the insurrection on January 6th into the ultimate online manhunt. Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses President Biden's judicial nominations. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 12, 2021•28 min
Erik Feldman, a University of Pennsylvania professor of law, health policy, and medical ethics, discusses some of the lawsuits brought by workers against employers who are requiring them to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the Biden administration’s decision to defend Donald Trump in a defamation suit. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 11, 2021•25 min
Second Amendment expert Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses a federal judge overturning California's 32-year ban on assault weapons, in a ruling comparing the AR-15 rifle to a Swiss Army knife. Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Supreme Court unanimously ruling that people who entered the U.S. illegally can’t seek permanent residency even though they now have temporary legal status. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listen...
Jun 08, 2021•30 min
Anne Coughlin, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School who specializes in feminist jurisprudence, discusses the August trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the defunct blood testing company Theranos, and possible defenses. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 05, 2021•14 min
Meghan Tribe, Bloomberg Law Correspondent, and Summer Eberhard, West Coast-based managing director at legal recruiter Major Lindsey & Africa, discuss the hot market for young corporate lawyers and the exhorbitant bonuses law firms are paying to retain and attract associates. Richard Ausness, a professor at the University of Kentucky Law School, discusses the Supreme Court's refusal to hear Johnson & Johnson's appeal from a $2.1 billion verdict. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/liste...
Jun 05, 2021•18 min
Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses how the Biden administration is using executive privilege to keep some documents related to former President Trump, a secret, including Trump's tax returns. Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, discusses the Supreme Court turning down Johnson & Johnson's appeal of a $2.1 billion verdict. Greg Stohr, Bloomberg Supreme Court Reporter, discusses Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch...
Jun 04, 2021•27 min
Environmental law professor, Pat Parenteau of the Vermont Law School, discusses how environmental advocates hoping for a complete reversal of Trump-era legal positions have faced a series of disappointments in the first months of the Biden administration. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 02, 2021•17 min
Antitrust law expert Harry First, a professor at New York University Law School, and Malathi Nayak, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discuss the high stakes Apple-Epic trial. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 30, 2021•24 min
Daniel Alonso, a partner at Buckley LLP and former chief assistant district attorney, discusses the Manhattan District Attorney convening a special grand jury in the investigation of former President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. Joanna Schwartz, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the Supreme Court once again turning down a case involving qualified immunity for police. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 28, 2021•34 min
Brendan Barnes, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst for Energy Litigation, discusses how the Dakota Access oil pipeline faces continued threats to its existence, even after surviving another shutdown battle in federal court. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Supreme Court siding with the government in a dispute centering on immigrants reentering the country after their deportations were based on rules that were later invalidated. June Grasso hosts See omnystudio.com...
May 26, 2021•29 min
Healthcare attorney Rob Fuller, a partner at Nelson Hardiman, discusses recent CDC guidance on masks and what it means for businesses. Paige Smith, Bloomberg Law Reporter for labor and employment, discusses employers separating vaccinated and unvaccinated workers, for example, by shift or floor. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 25, 2021•27 min
Former federal prosecutor George Newhouse of Richards Carrington, discusses the Supreme Court decision bolstering the protection of the home from police search. Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, discusses President Joe Biden's latest list of judicial nominees. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 22, 2021•24 min
