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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.

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Published 2021-12-11

Miramax v. Tarantino Over Pulp Fiction NFTs

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Lance Koonce, a partner at Klaris Law, discusses Miramax suing filmmaker Quentin Tarantino over the sale of NFTs from the cult classic "Pulp Fiction."

Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses Second Circuit arguments over former President Trump's efforts to scuttle a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who claims Trump raped her two decades ago. 

Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses Supreme Court arguments over noncitizens challenging administrative decisions in federal court.

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Published 2021-12-06

Will Roe v. Wade Survive?

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Mary Ziegler, a professor at Florida State University School of Law, discusses whether the Supreme Court is likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling on abortion rights.

Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses why the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals seemed skeptical about former President Trump's claim to executive privilege over documents subpoenaed by the House Committee investigating the Capitol riot.

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Published 2021-12-04

Elizabeth Holmes' Startling Admissions on the Stand

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Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes taking the stand in her own defense.

Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the U.K. ordering Meta's Facebook to sell Giphy, the first time a major global regulator has weighed in against a Silicon Valley giant and ordered it to unwind a deal after completion.

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Published 2021-12-02

Justices Suggest Sweeping Rollback on Abortion

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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 Chansley, appealing his sentence for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

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Published 2021-11-19

Ghislaine Maxwell and Elizabeth Holmes on Trial

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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.

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Published 2021-11-18

Defiant Steve Bannon Promises a Fight

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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 York Governor Andrew Cuomo could be forced to return the more than $5 million earned from his pandemic book.

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Published 2021-11-16

Religious Rights and State Secrets at SCOTUS

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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.

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Published 2021-11-13

Possible Criminal Charges in Deadly Houston Concert

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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.

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Published 2021-11-10

Writer's Block from DOJ Antitrust Suit

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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 the First Amendment.

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Published 2021-11-05

Supreme Court Signals Right to Carry Guns in Public

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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 halt Texas’ far-reaching abortion ban.

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Published 2021-11-04

Justices Grapple with Texas Abortion Law

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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.

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Published 2021-11-02

Paparazzi Turn Tables, Sue Celebrities Over Photos

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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.

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Published 2021-10-29

The Battle Over Microseconds in Trading Delay

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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.

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Published 2021-10-28

Abortion Soars to the Top of the Supreme Court Docket

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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.

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Published 2021-10-26

New York Appeals Court to Hear Taxi Medallion Case

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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.

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Published 2021-10-25

UNC Can Continue Using Race in Admissions Process

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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.

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Published 2021-10-23

De-radicalizing Extremists From QAnon to Jihad

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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.

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Published 2021-10-22

Will Justice Department Prosecute Steve Bannon?

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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.

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Published 2021-10-19

Convicted College Parent Will Appeal

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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.

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Published 2021-10-18

Vaccine Mandate War: White House Versus States

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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.

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Published 2021-10-13

Top Court Signals Kentucky Can Defend Abortion Law

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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.

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Published 2021-10-08

State Secrets That Are Not Secrets in Black Site Case

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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.

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Published 2021-10-08

$137 Million Verdict Against Tesla Over Racism

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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.

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Published 2021-10-06

Cruz Campaign Finance Challenge Heads to Supreme Court

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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.

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Published 2021-10-02

College Athletes Could Unionize Under a New NLRB Memo

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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.

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Published 2021-10-01

Legal Fight Over NFT of Jay-Z's Debut Album

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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.

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Published 2021-09-30

NYC School Vaccine Mandate Given Green Light

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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.

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Published 2021-09-28

Immigration Chaos at the Border

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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 other states.

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Published 2021-09-24

A Preview of the Supreme Court's Upcoming Term (Podcast)

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We preview the upcoming docket for the U.S. Supreme Court featuring interviews with:

Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter

Kimberly Robinson, Bloomberg Government Supreme Court Reporter

Rick Davis, Bloomberg Politics Contributor

Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Bloomberg Politics Contributor

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Published 2021-09-16

Are Geofence Warrants Sweeping Up Your Cellphone Data?

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Ari Ezra Waldman, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University Law School, discusses the spike in police use of geofence warrants to get location records for all mobile devices within a virtual perimeter. His new book is, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data and Corporate Power."

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Published 2021-09-14

Biden's Rush to Appoint Judges

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Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses President Joe Biden's latest judicial nominations and the rush to confirm judges.

Mark Rifkin, a partner at Wolf Haldenstein who represents consumers in an antitrust action against Apple, discusses the recent ruling in the year long battle between the iPhone maker and Epic Games.

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Published 2021-09-13

College Scandal Trial and VIP Admissions List

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Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the first trial of parents arrested in the "Varsity Blues" sting for allegedly paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their kids into elite universities. The parents may introduce a spreadsheet kept by USC officials that classified some applicants as a “VIP” because their families made major donations to the school or had some kind of connection. 

Zyg Plater, a professor at Boston College Law School, discusses the delisting of the snail darter from the endangered species act -- the little Tennessee fish whose case made it all the way to the Supreme Court.

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Published 2021-09-11

Uphill Legal Battle Against Texas Voting Law

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Uphill Legal Battle Against Texas Voting Law (Podcast)

Elections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the new Texas voting law, which is one of the most restrictive in the country.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig discusses his new book, "Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke The Prosecutor's Code And Corrupted The Justice Department."

June Grasso hosts.

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Published 2021-09-07

Elizabeth Holmes: From CEO to Victim

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Carol Sanger, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court allowing the most restrictive abortion law in the country to go into effect.

Anne Coughlin, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School who specializes in feminist jurisprudence, discusses the defenses Elizabeth Holmes is expected to raise in her trial for defrauding investors and patients with her defunct blood testing startup Theranos.

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Published 2021-09-03

The Secretive Shadow Docket Raises Questions

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Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School, discusses, the Supreme Court's shadow docket, where decisions are made without full briefing or oral arguments, and how more significant cases are being decided in this way.

Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses why Arizona is taking the unprecedented step of eliminating peremptory jury instructions.

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Published 2021-08-30

Courts Differ on Use of Gender Neutral Pronouns

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Holly Barker, Bloomberg Law Senior Legal Reporter, discusses how federal courts have handled the use of gender neutral pronouns.

Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law Supreme Court Reporter, discusses President Biden's choice for Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogar, and the upcoming term.

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Published 2021-08-28

Court Rules Warhol's Prince Series Infringed Photo

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Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirming its ruling that artist Andy Warhol's series on rock star Prince infringed the copyright of a photo of the star.

Lawrence Gostin, director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, discusses lawsuits over vaccine mandates at colleges and universities.

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Published 2021-08-27

Supreme Court Deals Biden Two Blows in One Week

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Neal Devins, a professor at William & Mary Law School, discusses the Supreme Court lifting the Biden administration's eviction moratorium, ending protection for millions of people who have fallen behind on their rent during the pandemic.

Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Supreme Court ordering the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump administration's Remain in Mexico policy, which forced migrants to wait in Mexico while their asylum claims were processed.

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Published 2021-08-24

Court Fights Over School Mask Mandates

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Eric Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the legal challenges to school mask mandates.

Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito putting a temporary hold on the reinstatement of the Trump administration's remain in Mexico policy.

Mario Talerico, a partner at Honigman, discusses his group's efforts to raise money to evacuate Afghan workers from a medical clinic under threat in Afghanistan through the GoFundMe page for Operation We Care: Global Afghan Evacuation.

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Published 2021-08-13

New Scotus Term: From Abortion Rights to State Secrets

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Constitutional law professor Harold Krent of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the upcoming Supreme Court term which includes cases on abortion rights, gun rights, the death penalty and state secrets.

Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the D.C Court of Appeals ordering the release of a West Virginia man accused of taking part in a pepper spray assault on police at the Capitol riots on January 6th.

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Published 2021-08-11

Ex-Tesla Employee Called Racial Slur Wins Rare Award

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Employment law expert Anthony Oncidi, a partner at Proskauer Rose, discusses Tesla paying more than $1 million to a Black former employee who won a ruling that the company failed to stop his supervisors from calling him a racial slur at the electric-car maker’s northern California plant.

Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses Congress weighing the first district court expansion since then-Sen. Joe Biden spearheaded the last change decades ago.

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