Sasha Buchert, senior attorney at Lambda Legal, discusses lawmakers in more than two dozen states weighing legislation that aims to restrict or ban access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, prompting legal challenges from LGBTQ rights groups that allege the bills are discriminatory. James Shreve, a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, discusses the Illinois Supreme Court ruling that claims under the Biometric Information Privacy Act, accrue at each violation, opening up businesse...
Feb 28, 2023•28 min
Eric Goldman, a Professor at Santa Clara University Law School and Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over when social media companies can be held responsible for aiding terrorism. Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses 80s pop star Rick Astley suing rapper Yung Gravy for mimicking his voice from his hit "Never Gonna Give You Up." June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...
Feb 27, 2023•28 min
Douglas Mirell, a partner at Greenberg Glusker, discusses Dominion Voting Systems filing for summary judgment against Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corporation, in its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. Joshua Kastenberg, a professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law, discusses the prosecution dropping the fire arms enhancement in its case against Alec Baldwin. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 24, 2023•30 min
Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over liability protections for internet companies in a case concerning claims against Google for "aiding and abetting" terrorism. Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law reporter, discusses how President Biden and Senate Republicans are at a crossroad over red-state judicial nominations. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Feb 22, 2023•31 min
Harry Nelson, Founder and Managing Partner of Nelson Hardiman, discusses a jury awarding retired Philadelphia Eagles safety Chris Maragos $43.5 million in damages in a medical malpractice lawsuit against a physician and rehab center. Kyle Jahner, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses Second Circuit oral arguments over whether Vermont Law School can permanently cover murals depicting the Underground Railroad without violating an artists’ rights law. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for ...
Feb 21, 2023•23 min
David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law School, discusses the US Supreme Court facing plummeting public opinion, an unresolved leak investigation, and a wave of ethics concerns, and the Chief Justice addressing little of those issues head on. David Straite, a partner at Dicello Levitt LLC, discusses social media app TikTok facing growing accusations that its in-app browser illegally tracks users’ clicks and keystrokes in violation of a federal wiretap law June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com...
Feb 16, 2023•33 min
National security law expert Bradley Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid discusses former Vice President Mike Pence's plan to mount a novel challenge to a grand jury subpoena from the special counsel investigating Donald Trump and his allies. Bloomberg Intelligence senior litigation analyst Jennifer Rie, discusses why the Federal Trade Commission halted its in-house lawsuit challenging Meta Platform’s acquisition of VR developer Within Unlimited. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...
Feb 15, 2023•28 min
Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses immigration law issues of the day, including a case before the Supreme Court regarding proving that deportation would inflict “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship” upon an immediate family member who is a U.S. citizen or green-card holder. Peter Walzer, partner of Walzer Melcher & Yoda, discusses the wife of billionaire Millennium Management Chairman, Israel “Izzy” Englander, withdrawing an explosive suit...
Feb 14, 2023•35 min
Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses luxury brand Hermès winning its trial against the digital artist behind “MetaBirkin” nonfungible tokens after convincing a Manhattan jury that the sale of the NFTs violated Hermès’ rights to the “Birkin” trademark. Roy Strom, Bloomberg Law correspondent, discusses how a rule in a North Carolina federal court threatens to cause chaos in the lawsuits on behalf of military veterans and their families expose...
Feb 10, 2023•31 min
Bankruptcy law expert Lindsey Simon, a professor at the University of Georgia Law School, discusses the controversial Texas Two-Step bankruptcy and a federal appellate court ruling that Johnson & Johnson can’t use the bankruptcy maneuver to resolve more than 40,000 cancer lawsuits over its baby powder. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 09, 2023•18 min
Bloomberg legal reporter Ava Benny-Morrison, discusses the US crackdown on trade-sanction violators turning to the art world as federal prosecutors in New York track down works bought or sold by Russian oligarchs. Business law expert Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses a jury in San Francisco clearing Elon Musk in a trial where Tesla investors claimed that he defrauded them when he tweeted that he was considering taking the company private and had “funding secured." June G...
Feb 08, 2023•31 min
Trusts & Estates attorney Sarah Wentz, a partner at Fox Rothschild, discusses Priscilla Presley challenging her late daughter's will, over a recently discovered 2016 document — one that ousted Priscilla and her daughter's former manager as co-trustees of Lisa Marie Presley's trust, replacing them with Lisa Marie's children, Riley and Benjamin Keough. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 07, 2023•20 min
Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses French luxury design house Hermès International SA’s trademark trial against digital artist Mason Rothschild for creating and selling “MetaBirkin” NFTs, which depict digital images of the famous Birkin handbag. Josh Lichtenstein, a partner who heads the ERISA fiduciary practice at Ropes & Gray, discusses the US Labor Department facing an unwelcome case of litigation deja vu, as it attempts to impleme...
Feb 05, 2023•38 min
A federal appeals court has ruled that J-and-J can't use the bankruptcy of a specially created unit to resolve more than 40-thousand cancer lawsuits over its product. That means the company will most likely need to defend itself against claims that tainted talc in its baby powder causes cancer. For more on the case, June Grasso speaks to Bloomberg intelligence litigation analyst Holly Froum. Plus, French luxury designer Hermes filed a federal lawsuit against a digital artist who is selling a Met...
Feb 03, 2023•32 min
Martin Edel, Co-Chair of the sports law practice and counsel at Goulston & Storrs, and an instructor in law at Columbia Law School, discusses issues in sports law from the antitrust fight between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour to college athletes now able to get paid for their name, image and likeness. Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses the trial of two former Fox executives charged with bribing soccer officials to win lucrative broadcast rights to tournaments. June Grasso host...
Feb 02, 2023•45 min
David Harris, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, discusses the charges against five Memphis police officers in the beating death of Tyrie Nichols during a traffic stop. Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses the lawsuit by Tesla investors against Elon Musk for those infamous "funding secured" tweets and how Musk's testimony will affect his defense. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 31, 2023•31 min
Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School discusses the trial of five Proud Boys, including the former leader of the group, Enrique Tarrio, for seditious conspiracy. Howard Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court revisiting the test for businesses to deny workers’ religious accommodation requests. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 30, 2023•28 min
James Barney, a partner at Finnegan, discusses the Supreme Court's first decision of the term in which the justices denied his client, Navy veteran Adolpho Arellano, the right to file for retroactive disability benefits after the one-year deadline, even though the delay was caused by his service-connected injury. M.C. Sungaila, a partner at the Complex Appellate Litigation Group, discusses the Supreme Court tossing out a case about the scope of the attorney client privilege, saying they shouldn’...
Jan 29, 2023•23 min
Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the Justice Department suing to break up Google's ad tech business and the Congressional hearings over the Taylor Swift ticket fiasco. Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a Partner at Holland & Knight, discusses Texas and other Republican-led states suing over a Biden immigration policy again. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 29, 2023•35 min
Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the trial where Tesla investors are suing Elon Musk over his now infamous 2018 tweet in which he said he was considering taking the electric-car maker private and had “funding secured.” Kal Raustiala, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the first US copyright lawsuits targeting AI art generators. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 24, 2023•34 min
Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the involuntary manslaughter charges that are being filed against actor Alec Baldwin for the shooting of the cinematographer on the set of the Western "Rust" in New Mexico. Securities law expert Robert Heim, a partner at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin, discusses the turf war between the SEC and the CFTC over which agency will regulate the cryptocurrency industry. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for...
Jan 21, 2023•29 min
Bloomberg legal reporter Erik Larson discusses the revelations in former President Trump's deposition in the E. Jean Carroll case accusing him of defamation, and also how a judge and the government is allowing rapper and accused cryptocurrency thief Heather Morgan to commute to a new job, even though she is under house arrest. Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court oral arguments over whether the US government should be allowed to bring criminal...
Jan 21, 2023•28 min
Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter Greg Stohr discusses Ketanji Brown Jackson’s new book deal adding to what has become a phenomenon at the Supreme Court: Justices looking to craft their own images and perhaps score a hefty payday along the way. Eric Ruben, a Professor at SMU's Dedman School of Law, discusses the Supreme Court refusing to block New York’s new handgun restrictions at this time. David J. Woolf, a Partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, discusses the Federal Trade Comm...
Jan 17, 2023•32 min
National security law expert Brad Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the discovery of classified documents in President Biden's home and former office. Appellate attorney M.C. Sungaila of Buckalter discusses the Supreme Court's consideration of a broadening of the attorney-client privilege relating to communications that involve both law and business. Judiciary expert Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discu...
Jan 14, 2023•42 min
Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses new measures announced by President Biden to try to curb the influx of migrants at the Southern Border. Elections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the controversies and investigations into New York Republican Congressman George Santos. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 11, 2023•32 min
Noa Ben Asher, a professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, discusses the 11th Circuit ruling that a Florida school board didn’t violate transgender high school student Drew Adams’ equal protection rights when it banned him from using the boys' bathrooms. Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law reporter, discusses how conservative states challenging the Biden administration have found their preferred venue and an ideal judge in a rural Louisiana farming parish. June Grasso hosts. See...
Jan 08, 2023•23 min
Environmental law expert Pat Parenteau, a professor at the Vermont Law and Graduate School, discusses the flood of lawsuits over the climate claims of food and beverage companies. California attorney Jeff Lewis of Jeff Lewis Law, discusses law firm Proskauer Rose suing its former Chief Operating Officer alleging that Jonathan O'Brien stole a slew of confidential information from the firm June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 07, 2023•26 min
Constitutional law professor Steve Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School, discusses the Chief Justice's Annual Report and his analysis of it in his weekly newsletter, "One First," which you can subscribe to at stevevladeck.substack.com. Jason Little, Counsel at Farrell Fritz, discusses New York's recreational cannabis industry and the fast changing rules as the first dispensaries open. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 07, 2023•29 min
Constitutional law expert Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses cases coming up in 2023 at the Supreme Court, from a challenge to President Biden's student loan program, to a possible reckoning for social media companies, to the Navaho Nation's fight over water rights. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 23, 2022•26 min
Business law expert Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses Elon Musk's pledge to appoint a new CEO to take over Twitter and other challenges facing the social media platform. Harry Nelson, the founder of Nelson Hardiman, discusses the move to legalize “magic mushrooms” and other psychedelic drugs. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 23, 2022•39 min
