Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenmann, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over whether Andy Warhol's silkscreen series of Prince infringed the copyright of a photographer. Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law Supreme Court Reporter, discusses why the Solicitor General's Office remains a pipeline for diversity in Supreme Court oral arguments. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 18, 2022•24 min
Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses a case where, whether a Texas death-row inmate gets DNA testing, will hinge on a technical ruling by the US Supreme Court about statutes of limitations. Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a Professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the high stakes seditious conspiracy trial of the Oath Keepers. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 15, 2022•26 min
Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over the pork industry's challenge to a new California law requiring the humane treatment of pigs, asking whether it might open the way for other states to try to impose their moral values beyond their borders. Shyam Balganesh, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the copyright clash over Andy Warhol's silkscreens of Prince. Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses a $125 million...
Oct 15, 2022•30 min
Mark Kantrowitz, an expert in student loans and financial aid, discusses the legal challenges to President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program. Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond Law School, an expert in the judiciary, discusses federal appeals court Judge James Ho’s decision to boycott recent graduates from Yale Law School when hiring clerks. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 13, 2022•39 min
Maryland Assistant Public Defender Erica Suter, the attorney for Adnan Syed whose case was chronicled in the hit podcast "Serial," discusses Syed's release after serving more than two decades in prison for murder and his fight to prove his innocence. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the latest circuit court ruling which leaves Dreamers in limbo once again. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 11, 2022•33 min
Elections law expert Richard Hasen, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the Supreme Court’s conservative wing considering limiting the creation of majority-Black voting districts in a new blow to the Voting Rights Act. Former Naval officer James Barney, a partner at Finnegan, makes his Supreme Court debut arguing for a fellow veteran seeking retroactive disability benefits. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 09, 2022•22 min
Eric Goldman, a Professor at Santa Clara University Law School and Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute, discusses the Supreme Court jumping into the politically fraught debate over Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 08, 2022•15 min
Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court reporter, discusses Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's first week on the court and how she emerged as an active, forceful questioner. Environmental law professor Pat Parenteau of the Vermont Law School, discusses how some of the conservative justices signaled interest in limiting the reach of the Clean Water Act. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 08, 2022•26 min
Antitrust law expert Harry First, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses how Amazon and the five largest US publishing houses are free for now of antitrust litigation over claims they manipulated online book and e-book markets. Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter, discusses former President Donald Trump asking the US Supreme Court to intervene in the fight over government papers seized at his Mar-a-Lago home. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 07, 2022•21 min
Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses Elon Musk's latest move, a reversal of course, saying he will go through with the deal for Twitter on the original terms of the agreement. Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses the trial of Trump ally Tom Barrack, charged with acting as an agent of the United Arab Emirates in trying to influence US policy. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 06, 2022•27 min
Bloomberg legal reporter Joel Rosenblatt discusses lawsuits attempting to place responsibility for the dangers of social media on the companies that run the most popular platforms. Securities law attorney Robert Heim, a partner at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP, discusses Wall Street Banks being hit with more than $2 billion in penalties for failing to monitor employees’ communications on unauthorized messaging apps. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 03, 2022•26 min
Catherine Ross, a professor at George Washington University Law School, discusses whether the First Amendment protects lawyers who lie. Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the overhaul of the Electoral Count Act. Adam Cooke, counsel with Hogal Lovells, discusses new class action lawsuits over website-browsing surveillance. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 01, 2022•41 min
Former United States Solicitor General Gregory Garre, a partner at Latham & Watkins, discusses the upcoming term of the Supreme Court and whether it will be as controversial as the last term. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 30, 2022•21 min
Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst Jennifer Rie discusses the government taking American Airlines Group and JetBlue Airways to court to break up their partnership. Elora Mukherjee, the Director of Columbia Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, discusses the lawsuit over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard. Bankruptcy attorney Jonathan Pasternak, a partner at Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, discusses Johnson & Johnson's strategy in placing a unit...
Sep 28, 2022•41 min
National Security law expert Bradley Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses the dispute about the classified documents seized from former President Trump's Florida estate by the FBI and why Trump lost at the 11th Circuit. First Amendment law expert Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses Yeshiva University temporarily suspending all undergraduate club activities after the US Supreme Court refused to step into a legal fight over recognition of a campus LGBTQ student grou...
Sep 24, 2022•37 min
Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the New York Attorney General suing former President Donald Trump and three of his children for allegedly inflating the value of his real estate company’s assets, the culmination of a years-long investigation. First Amendment law expert Caroline Mala Corbin, a professor at the University of Miami Law School, discusses the Texas and Florida laws regulating social media that may come before the Supreme Court. Ju...
Sep 23, 2022•25 min
Immigration law expert Jack Chin, a Professor at UC Davis Law School, discusses Florida Governor Ron DeSantis chartering flights to send about 50 undocumented immigrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard. Second Amendment law expert Andrew Willinger, Executive Director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law, discusses a ruling which could become a blueprint for challenging New York’s concealed-carry law. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Sep 22, 2022•31 min
Intellectual Property Litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenmann, discusses the latest lawsuit against Netflix, this time by Rachel Williams, a former friend of Anna Sorokin, for her depiction as a backstabbing freeloader in the popular docudrama "Inventing Anna." June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 20, 2022•18 min
Mary Ziegler, a Professor at UC Davis Law School, discusses how fetal personhood, the concept of granting legal rights to the unborn at conception or a couple of months after, is shaping into the next battleground in the fight over abortion rights in the US. Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses how even before the toppling of Roe v. Wade, the prosecution of women suspected of purposefully or accidentally ending a pregnancy was on the rise. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/l...
Sep 16, 2022•26 min
Eric Talley, a Professor at Columbia Law School, discusses a federal appeals court saving Citigroup from an epic mistake that became the talk of Wall Street. Ben Penn, a Justice Department Reporter for Bloomberg Law, discusses why the temporary leader of the Justice Department’s largest litigating division is outlasting his expected tenure without becoming a target of the left or right. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Sep 16, 2022•30 min
Constitutional law scholar Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses Chief Justice John Roberts expressing concerns about attacks on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Michael Moore, the former United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia and a partner at Moore Hall, discusses the threat to former President Trump from the Fulton County District Attorney's investigation into criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election. June Grasso hosts. Se...
Sep 14, 2022•33 min
National security law expert Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the legal complications of Judge Aileen Cannon ordering a special master to review thousands of documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last month. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the Manhattan District Attorney charging former Trump strategist Steve Bannon with money-laundering and conspiracy for allegedly defrauding cont...
Sep 11, 2022•20 min
Bloomberg News Reporter Chris Strohm discusses why we’re not likely to see any charges against former President Donald Trump until after the mid-term elections. Bloomberg Law Legal Reporter Holly Barker joins to talk about when old, racists laws can be wiped off the books. William Haun, Senior Council at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, discusses Yeshiva University’s fight to shut down an LGBT student group on campus, and how the latest clash over gay rights and the free exercise of religi...
Sep 02, 2022•32 min
Bloomberg News Reporter Zoe Tillman discusses a new court filing from the DOJ on documents seized from the home of former President Donald Trump. William Buzbee, Law Professor at Georgetown University, joins to talk about a water dispute in Idaho. Elizabeth Nash, Principal Policy Associate for States Issues with the Guttmacher Institute, discusses states' abortion policies and how quickly the abortion landscape is changing across the country. Hosts: Kimberly Robinson and Greg Stohr Producer: Jac...
Sep 02, 2022•32 min
Bloomberg Law Reporter Andrea Vittorio discusses the experiences technology companies are promising in the Metaverse and the privacy pitfalls that could come with its user data collection. Stephen Vladeck, University of Texas at Austin Law professor, joins to talk about the Supreme Court's shadow docket and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s refusal to block New York City’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate. Jef Feeley, Legal Reporter for Bloomberg News, discusses Elon Musk and his fight to get out ...
Sep 01, 2022•33 min
Angelica Peebles, Health Reporter for Bloomberg News, discusses the lawsuit Moderna filed against Pfizer over Covid-19 vaccine technology. Jake Faleschini, Legal Director for State Courts at Alliance for Justice Action Fund, joins to talk about state supreme court judicial races and which courts could flip from Republican to Democrat control or vice versa. Jennifer Levi, director of GLAD's Transgender Rights Project, discusses a recent federal appeals court decision that's expected to give trans...
Sep 01, 2022•33 min
Bloomberg News Reporter Neil Weinberg discusses a loophole in U.S. tax law that may be helping Americans hide money from the IRS offshore. Georgetown University Law Professor Josh Chafetz talks about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s fight to avoid testifying before a Georgia grand jury and whether the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution protects his calls to the Georgia Secretary of State. Law Professor at Georgia State University College of Law, Eric Segall discusses who could potentially challen...
Aug 25, 2022•32 min
Neil Weare, Civil Rights Attorney and President and Founder of Equally American, discusses efforts to get the DOJ to change positions on a series of cases that critics say make residents of U.S. territories second-class citizens. Neil Volz, Deputy Director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, talks about voter fraud prosecutions in Florida and the importance of voting restoration. Leah Nylen, Bloomberg News reporter covering the Federal Trade Commision, discusses the case of a new whistl...
Aug 24, 2022•33 min
Hon. Alberto Gonzales, former U.S. Attorney General, discusses the FBI affidavit that justified the search on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. Former Federal Judge, and current Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, Michael McConnell discusses 303 Creative v. Elenis, a case that pits a Colorado state anti-discrimination law meant to protect same-sex couples against free speech rights. Hosts: Kimberly Robinson and Lydia Wheeler Producer: Sa...
Aug 22, 2022•32 min
Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, discusses the sharp rise in book bans and the record-setting number of challenges to remove books from schools or libraries. James Park, a Professor at UCLA Law School and author of, "The Valuation Treadmill: How Securities Fraud Threatens the Integrity of Public Companies," discusses how federal prosecutors toppled the world's most powerful gold trader. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/l...
Aug 19, 2022•29 min
