Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter, discusses the Supreme Court’s conservatives suggesting they are poised to roll back abortion rights and uphold Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Robert Field, Professor of Law and Public Health at Drexel University, discusses the first court victory for opponents of the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for health-care workers. David Yaffe-Bellany, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the “QAnon Shaman,” Jacob Chansl...
Dec 02, 2021•40 min
Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, discusses his new book, "Who Decides?: States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation." June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 23, 2021•26 min
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Nov 20, 2021•26 min
Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell who is accused of luring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse them. Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of bloodtesting startup Theranos, who is facing charges of conspiracy and wire fraud. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 20, 2021•29 min
Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses former Trump campaign chairman Steve Bannon facing criminal contempt charges for ignoring subpoenas from the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot. Tom Melsheimer, a partner at Winston & Strawn, discusses a judge striking down the Texas ban on school mask mandates and his representation of the plaintiffs in the case. Brad Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses the possibility that former New...
Nov 18, 2021•40 min
Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the Supreme Court justices grappling with the religious rights of death-row inmates in the execution chamber. Ahilan Arulanantham, Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments where he represented three Muslim men who sued the FBI for spying on them. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 16, 2021•27 min
Rachel Fiset, managing partner of Zweiback, Fiset & Coleman, discusses the potential criminal and civil legal actions from the deadly Travis Scott concert. Bryant Gardner, a partner at Winston & Strawn, discusses the legal fallout from the supply chain crisis. Shyam Balganesh, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses Supreme Court arguments in which Unicolors claimed that the Ninth Circuit wrongly nixed a copyright infringement win against designer H&M. June Grasso hosts. See om...
Nov 13, 2021•41 min
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Nov 12, 2021•43 min
Antitrust expert Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the Justice Department’s bid to block Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of rival Simon & Schuster, alleging it would allow just a few publishers to control the prices paid to authors. First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses Supreme Court arguments concerning a legislative body’s ability to censure a member for unpopular speech without running afoul of t...
Nov 10, 2021•26 min
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Nov 08, 2021•29 min
Second Amendment law expert Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the Supreme Court's conservative justices signaling that they are ready to strike down New York's gun control law and rule that most people have a right to carry a handgun outside the home. Mary Ziegler, a professor at Florida State University College of Law and author of "Abortion and the Law in America, A Legal History, Roe v. Wade to the Present," discusses key justices raising the prospect they might act to h...
Nov 05, 2021•24 min
Constitutional law professor Leah Litman of the University of Michigan Law School, discusses the Supreme Court justices grappling with the power of the federal judiciary to block Texas’ ban on abortion, the most restrictive law in the country. Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses a jury awarding more than $17 million in back pay to immigrants for work in a detention center, and other immigration issues. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener fo...
Nov 04, 2021•29 min
Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig discusses the investigation into how a scene on the set of the movie "Rust" turned deadly. Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses how paparazzi are suing celebrities who post photos of themselves on social media -- photos they don't own the rights to. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 02, 2021•24 min
Securities law expert James Cox, a professor at Duke Law School, discusses Citadel Securities suing the Securities and Exchange Commission over a new kind of market order that has a 350-microsecond delay to blunt the advantage of high frequency traders. Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses the state of Oklahoma wanting a redo of the Supreme Court decision that gave American Indian tribes endorsement of their sovereignty in much of the eastern part of the state. June Grasso hosts. See ...
Oct 29, 2021•28 min
Leah Litman, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, discusses the Supreme Court agreeing to hear arguments on an expedited basis on a Texas law that has largely stopped legal abortion in the state. Domenique Moran, an employment lawyer and partner at Farrell Fritz, discusses courts clashing over religious exemptions for vaccine mandates. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 28, 2021•28 min
Mark Rifkin, a partner at Wolf Haldenstein who represents yellow cab medallion owners suing New York City and the Taxi and Limousine Commission in two class actions, discusses the New York Court of Appeals agreeing to hear the cases over the city's auctioning of medallions. Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses President Joe Biden moving judicial nominees through the confirmation process faster than any other recent president. June Grasso hosts. See omnystu...
Oct 26, 2021•26 min
Audrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass Berry & Sims, discusses a judge ruling that the University of North Carolina's can continue using race as a factor in undergraduate admissions. Josh Blackman, a professor of constitutional law at the South Texas College of Law, discusses President Biden’s commission examining changes to the Supreme Court. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 25, 2021•27 min
David Yaffe-Bellany, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the group, "Parents for Peace," a nonprofit that specializes in deradicalizing people who are drawn to extremist ideas, from jihad to QAnon. Joanna Schwartz, a professor at UCLA Law School and an expert in qualified immunity, discusses the Supreme Court siding with police in two cases involving excessive force. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 23, 2021•33 min
Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers, a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, discusses the House voting to hold former Trump advisor Steve Bannon in criminal contempt and whether the Justice Department will prosecute Bannon. Former federal prosecutor Mark Lytle, a partner at Nixon Peabody, discusses the prosecution of a former Boeing pilot -- the first prosecution related to two fatal 737 Max accidents. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 22, 2021•33 min
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Oct 20, 2021•27 min
Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses the college admissions scandal and the likely appeals issues for the two parents convicted at trial. John Blume, a professor at Cornell Law School and Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, discusses the Supreme Court's arguments over the reinstatement of the death sentence for the Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 19, 2021•19 min
Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses vaccine mandate bans in states like Texas and Florida that conflict with federal vaccine mandates. M.C Sungaila, the chair of the appellate practice at Buchalter, discusses a new case the Supreme Court will hear and the fight to regain an impressionist painting stolen by the Nazis. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 18, 2021•12 min
Bloomberg Supreme Court Reporter Greg Stohr discusses the justices signaling they are inclined to let Kentucky’s Republican attorney general take over the defense of a law that would sharply restrict abortion after the 15th week of pregnancy. Robin Craig, a professor at USC Gould School of Law, discusses the fight between Mississippi and Tennessee over ground water. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 13, 2021•30 min
Professor Jimmy Gurulé of Notre Dame Law School, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over state secrets in the torture of Abu Zubaydah, the first “War on Terror” detainee subjected to torture abroad by U.S. intelligence. Professor Richard Garnett of Notre Dame Law School, discusses the Supreme Court deciding to hear a case over Boston refusing to fly a Christian group's flag at city hall. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 08, 2021•26 min
Employment law attorney Anthony Oncidi, a partner at Proskauer Rose, discusses the unprecedented $137 million verdict against Tesla for racial discrimination. Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses the intellectual property fight over the rights to painter Bob Ross' name and likeness. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 08, 2021•20 min
Campaign finance expert Meredith McGehee discusses Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s challenge to federal campaign finance rules that the Supreme Court will review. Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses President Biden's recent judicial nominations and why he's moving so fast. Anat Alon-Beck, a professor at Case Western Reserve Law School, discusses Citibank trying to get an appeals court to fix its $500 million dollar error. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.c...
Oct 06, 2021•41 min
Audrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass Berry & Sims, discusses a memo from the top lawyer at the NLRB which could open the door to college athletes unionizing. Anthony Oncidi, a partner at Proskauer Rose, discusses a trial where Tesla is being sued by a factory worker for racial discrimination. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 02, 2021•12 min
Securities attorney Robert Heim, a partner at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin, discusses Jay-Z and Rock-A-Fella Records legal fight with Damon Dash over the auctioning of the copyright to Jay-Z’s debut album, "Reasonable Doubt," as an NFT, which represents ownership of a digital object on a blockchain. Bloomberg Legal Reporter Caleb Melby discusses the UAE royals, including the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, who were referenced but not named in the indictment of billionaire Tom Barrack. June Grasso host...
Oct 01, 2021•19 min
Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Hastings College of Law who specializes in vaccine policy, discusses the legal challenges New York is facing over its vaccine mandates. Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English and a former federal prosecutor, discusses millionaire Robert Durst's appeal of his murder conviction. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 30, 2021•28 min
Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Biden administration's handling of the migrant camp that formed in Del Rio, Texas and what's ahead for the Haitian migrants. Antitrust law expert Harry First, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses the ramifications of the decision in the Apple-Epic Games antitrust case. Election law expert Elizabeth Howard, Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, discusses the Arizona audit and audits planned in oth...
Sep 28, 2021•50 min