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Anne Coughlin, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School who specializes in feminist jurisprudence, discusses Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, exploring whether she can beat fraud charges by asking jurors to delve into her psychological state. Maaren Shah, the head of the art litigation practice at Quinn Emanuel, discusses the long-running battle over the legacy and work of sculptor Robert Indiana, and the agreement between her client, the Morgan Art Foundation and the non-profit that’s the sole beneficiary of Indiana’s estate, the Star of Hope Foundation. June Grasso hosts. 

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A Supreme Court with a 6 member conservative majority could change the law on abortion rights, Obamacare, gun rights, affirmative action, voting rights and religious rights, just to name a few areas. Host June Grasso discusses the changes ahead with constitutional law scholars Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School and Neil Kinkopf, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law. 

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a trailblazer in women's rights, the second female justice on the Supreme Court and a cultural icon. Constitutional Law Professor Leah Litman of the University of Michigan Law School discusses Ginsburg's legacy. Virginia Solicitor General Toby Heytens discusses his days as Ginsburg's law clerk. June Grasso hosts.

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Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses how judges are using unconventional methods to restart jury trials, as their caseloads pile up. Michael Gerrard, the founder and faculty director of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, discusses actions a Biden administration could take to reverse the climate deregulation carried out by the Trump administration. June Grasso hosts. 

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Andrew Rossman, a partner at Quinn Emanuel, discusses the legal battle between LVMH and Tiffany & Co., as the maker of Louis Vuitton bags tries to pull out of a $16 billion agreement to buy the jewelry brand. Anat Alon-Beck, a professor at Case Western Reserve School of Law, discusses an employee error that caused Citigroup Inc. to mistakenly pay out more than $900 million of its own money to a group of lenders expecting an interest payment on behalf of Revlon Inc. June Grasso hosts.

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She was just the second woman justice on the Supreme Court.

Her 27 years on the bench was marked by a tireless fight to advance the rights of women.

She built a record as one of the most liberal justices, supporting gay rights, abortion rights, and restrictions on the death penalty.

Now, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87.

Ginsburg passed due to complications from pancreatic cancer...surrounded by her family at her home in Washington.

On this podcast, we examine the life and legacy of the justice affectionately known as Notorious R-B-G...and bring you the view of her career...in her own words...with excerpts from an interview conducted less than a year ago.

Hosted by David Westin

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Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, discusses his new book, "The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State," and how the Supreme Court's First Amendment law concerning religion is likely to change in the years ahead. June Grasso hosts. 

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Roy Strom, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses how litigation finance is fueling the lawsuit of artist Akiane Kramarik who gained fame as a 9-year-old on the Oprah Winfrey show, against Art & SoulWorks, her licensing arm for more than a decade. Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses President Trump's new additions to his list of possible Supreme Court nominees. June Grasso hosts. 

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Mechele Dickerson, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and an early researcher on race and bankruptcy, discusses why Black debtors file for bankruptcy disproportionately more than other racial groups, yet get less permanent relief. Employment law expert Anthony Oncidi, a partner at Proskauer Rose, discusses what a Biden Administration could mean for employers and employees. June Grasso hosts. 

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Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the Justice Department's unusual move to take over the defense of President Trump in a defamation suit tied to a rape claim. Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses why state prosecutors dropped the murder indictment against Curtis Flowers, a Black man tried six times in Mississippi for a quadruple murder. June Grasso hosts.

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Campaign finance law expert Meredith McGehee, the executive director of Issue One, which advocates for stronger campaign finance laws, discusses the allegations that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pressured his former employees to donate money to Republican political candidates and then reimbursed them using company money. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses a federal judge ordering the U.S. Census Bureau to stop following a plan that would have it winding down operations in order to finish the 2020 census at the end of September. June Grasso hosts. 

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Employment law expert Anthony Oncidi, a partner at Proskauer Rose, discusses an Ohio Supreme Court ruling that employees required to take an employer-watched urine test, didn't have a claim for invasion of privacy. Erin Mulvaney, Bloomberg Law Senior Reporter, discusses employees filing suits over denial of Covid-19 leaves. June Grasso hosts. 

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Neil Kinkopf, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses the third ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals over the House of Representatives lawsuit seeking to subpoena former White House Counsel Don McGahn. Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the Vermont Law School, discusses California's 100th lawsuit against the Trump administration. June Grasso hosts. 

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Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the lawsuit against McDonald's by more than 50 Black former franchisees who say they were driven out of business after being pushed by the company to set up shop in crime-ridden areas. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the continuing legal saga of former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, after a federal appeals court declined to order the dismissal of the case against him. June Grasso hosts. 

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Mark Ramseyer, a professor at Harvard Law School, discusses the fight against extradition to Japan of two American men who are wanted there on charges that they smuggled former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of the country in a box last year in his daring escape. Bloomberg's David McLaughlin discusses the decision by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. to fight charges by the U.S. of conspiring with competitors to raise prices for generic drugs. June Grasso hosts. 

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First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the Justice Department asking the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling prohibiting President Donald Trump from blocking users from his personal Twitter account. June Grasso hosts. 

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Elections law expert Nathaniel Persily, a professor at Stanford Law School, discusses the third multistate lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over major changes to postal service operations that the states fear will hinder mail-in voting during the November election. June Grasso hosts. 

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James Dempsey, executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses TikTok filing a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from enacting a ban on the fast-growing social media network, as it negotiates a sale of its U.S. assets. June Grasso hosts.

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Professor John Blume of Cornell Law School, the Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, discusses why the California Supreme Court overturned Scott Peterson's 2005 death sentence for the murder of his wife and unborn child. June Grasso hosts. 

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Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses the many issues criminal trial lawyers are having during the pandemic, from not being able to confer adequately with their clients to potentially skewed jury pools. Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses Democrat's win in a court fight over the testimony of former White House counsel Donald McGahn. June Grasso hosts. 

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Elections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the challenges ahead in the 2020 election and what states are trying to do now to ensure mail-in balloting is successful. Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the skeptical en banc panel former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn faced at the D.C Circuit Court of Appeals. June Grasso hosts. 

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Second Amendment expert, Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the New York Attorney General's lawsuit to dissolve the NRA. Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses Qualcomm's victory at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. June Grasso hosts. 

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John Coffee, a professor at Columbia Law School and author of the new book, “Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Crisis of Underenforcement,” discusses how the prosecution of white collar crime has dropped 30% under President Trump, as well as a drop in fines on corporations. Matt Dallek, a professor at Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, discusses whether Trump’s pandemic relief orders are likely to face legal challenges. June Grasso hosts. 

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Stephen Vladeck, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas Law School, discusses an extraordinary breach of the Supreme Court's rules of confidentiality and what it revealed about the inner workings of the court. Neil Kinkopf, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses why the Supreme Court hasn’t shown much willingness during the Covid pandemic to second-guess emergency orders issued by public officials. June Grasso hosts. 

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Election law expert Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School, discusses why the 2020 election is on track to be the most litigated in U.S. history, with lawsuits pending in 42 states and D.C. June Grasso hosts. 

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Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses new concerns about the 2020 Census. Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses President Trump's upcoming list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court. Christopher Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses how a bail hearing for the teenager accused in the Twitter hack, got hacked. June Grasso hosts. 

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Former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth, a professor at Cardozo Law School, discusses Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. suggesting his office may be investigating potential bank and insurance fraud by President Trump and the Trump Organization, as it seeks access to the president’s tax returns and other financial records. Bloomberg Law Reporter Madison Alder discusses Judge Esther Salas calling for more security for federal judges after a shooter killed her son and wounded her husband at their New Jersey home. June Grasso hosts.

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Bloomberg Legal Reporter Patricia Hurtado discusses some revelations in newly unsealed documents in the Ghislaine Maxwell case and her attempts to block her deposition from 2016 from being revealed. Robert Bloom, a professor at Boston College Law School, discusses a federal appeals court throwing out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. June Grasso hosts. 

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Former federal prosecutor Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School, discusses why prosecutors and judges are resisting a proposal working its way through the California Legislature to require transparency around juror strikes in the nation’s largest state justice system, to address concerns of racial, gender, and other bias. June Grasso hosts. 

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Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law Supreme Court Reporter, discusses the similarities between Justice Neil Gorsuch and his mentor, Justice Byron White -- and why Gorsuch doesn't care about public perception or criticism. Erin Mulvaney, Bloomberg Law Senior Legal Reporter, discusses new research suggesting that the pandemic has worsened gender dynamics between working parents and why working moms will find it hard to fight Covid-19 layoffs in court. June Grasso hosts.  

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Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the testimony of the four tech titans on Capitol Hill and whether more regulation or even break-ups are ahead for Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. Christopher Opfer, Bloomberg Law Team Leader for the Business of Law, discusses Uber's elite legal team and their strategy in the courts. June Grasso hosts. 

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Bradley Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses Attorney General William Barr offering a full-throated defense of the aggressive federal response to protests around the country and denying he has politicized the Justice Department during testimony on Capitol Hill. June Grasso hosts. 

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Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter Greg Stohr, discusses the upcoming term at the Supreme Court and why there are no cases on the Second Amendment or abortion rights. June Grasso hosts. 

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Duke Law School Prof Marin Levy discusses the Supreme Court justices and lack of transparency on health issues. Bloomberg Industry Group's Sam Skolnick discusses Issues with taking the bar exam during pandemic. Bloomberg Industry Group's Ellen Gilmer discusses a Bid by Sierra Club, ACLU to stop border-wall construction. Stanford Law Professor Michael McConnell and University of Miami Law Prof Caroline Mala Corbin discuss the Supreme Court's refusal to lift Covid capacity limits on Nevada church

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Bloomberg Law Reporter Madison Alder, discusses why some courts are pumping the brakes on reopening efforts as Covid-19 cases rise, while others face pushback from lawyers over resuming in-person operations. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses President Trump's memorandum that seeks to bar undocumented immigrants from being included in the census court. June Grasso hosts. 

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Bloomberg legal reporter Erik Larson discusses former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's claim that his sudden return to prison is illegal retaliation for his decision to write an unflattering book about Trump before this year’s election. June Grasso hosts.

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Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig of Lowenstein Sandler discusses the clashes between federal agents and protesters in Portland, Oregon. Harold Krent a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law discusses the continuing legal battles over the subpoenas of President Trump's financial records. June Grasso hosts.

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Josh Blackman, a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law, discusses Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion in Trump v. Vance which referred to Chief Justice John Marshall's rulings from the Aaron Burr treason trials. But did Marshall win the standoff over documents with President Thomas Jefferson or did Jefferson win? June Grasso hosts. 

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Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the expansion of religious liberties at the Supreme Court this term. June Grasso hosts. 

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Stephen Vladeck, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas Law School, discusses the Supreme Court's most remarkable term featuring victories for immigrants, abortion rights, LGBTQ workers and religious freedoms and the dominant role of Chief Justice John Roberts. June Grasso hosts. 

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Bloomberg Legal Reporter Patricia Hurtado discusses the bail hearing for Ghislaine Maxwell that ended with a ruling that she must spend the next year behind bars awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges tied to her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein, but it also offered hints at her defense strategy. Bloomberg Legal Reporter Laurel Calkins discusses the legal battles of the Texas Republican Party in trying to force the city of Houston to host the party’s convention in person in the middle of a pandemic hot zone. June Grasso hosts.

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Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses President Donald Trump commuting the sentence of longtime ally Roger Stone, sentenced to more than three years in prison for witness tampering and lying to Congress. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight discusses the Trump administration rescinding a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the coronavirus pandemic. June Grasso hosts.

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Pat Parenteau, an environmental law professor at Vermont Law School, discusses three major victories for environmentalists in one week in blocking oil and gas pipelines, as a court ordered the Dakota Access pipeline to shut down during an environmental review, the Supreme Court refused to reinstate streamlined permitting for the Keystone XL pipeline and a decision by the developers of the Atlantic Coast pipeline to call it quits after years of legal delays. June Grasso hosts.

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Judge Dan Michael, the new President of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, discusses his years on the bench of the Memphis and Shelby County Tennessee Juvenile Court, the work of the National Council, and his goals for juvenile and family courts. June Grasso hosts.

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Election law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court's ruling that states can require members of the Electoral College to vote for the presidential candidate who won the statewide balloting in a decision that refers to the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" and the HBO comedy "Veep." Bloomberg Law Editor Jordan Rubin discusses a landmark 5-4 ruling, in which the Supreme Court affirmed the 19th-century reservation status of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, in a criminal case. June Grasso hosts.

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Leah Litman, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Michigan Law School, discusses today's pair of of 7-2 Supreme Court rulings rejecting President Trump’s expansive view of the presidency and his call for sweeping immunity, leaving room for Congress and state prosecutors to get access to a president’s private records with a strong enough showing. June Grasso hosts. 

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Bloomberg Legal Reporter Patricia Hurtado describes how Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, has gone from a luxury estate in New Hampshire to lockdown in Brooklyn and the secrets her case may reveal. June Grasso hosts.

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Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses how Donald Trump is on track to be the first president since Richard Nixon to go a full first term without selecting an African American nominee for a federal appeals court out of 53 confirmed appellate court judges. June Grasso hosts.

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Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School discusses how a closely divided Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that would have left the state with only one abortion clinic, in a surprise reinforcement for women’s reproductive rights. Jill Fisch, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, discusses a divided Supreme Court ruling that the president has broad power to fire the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying that Congress went too far in trying to insulate the agency from political pressure. June Grasso hosts.

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