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Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, a partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, discusses the criminal charges against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.Securities law expert Robert Heim, a partner at Tarter, Krinsky & Drogin, discusses the SEC and CFTC cases against Bankman Fried.Business restructuring expert Jim Baer, president of CMBG Advisors, discusses the bankruptcy of FTX.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the FTC going to court to try to block Meta Platforms from buying a virtual reality startup.Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter discusses a New York law opening the way to a flood of sex-abuse suits.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal reporter, discusses two of Donald Trump’s companies being convicted of criminal tax fraud, and why the former president was not charged. Isaiah Poritz, Bloomberg Law reporter, discusses the music industry cracking down on brand owners and influencers using unlicensed songs in TikTok videos. June Grasso hosts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Constitutional law expert Michael Dorf, a professor at Cornell Law School, discusses the Supreme Court's conservative justices hinting at support for a Colorado website designer who says she has a constitutional right to create websites only for opposite-sex weddings.Dan Papscun, Bloomberg Law reporter, discusses the FTC's focus in Kroger's $24.6 billion aquisition of Albertsons.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Constitutional law expert Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over a far-reaching constitutional argument that would give state legislatures, near-exclusive authority over federal elections.Bloomberg Legal Reporter Laurel Calkins discusses the trial of a former Harvard fencing coach and a telecom CEO over charges that they corrupted the admissions process in a case with echoes of the “Varsity Blues” scandal.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenmann, discusses the Supreme Court agreeing to hear a trademark lawsuit over a chewable dog toy designed to mimic the iconic Jack Daniel’s whiskey bottle.Kenneth Gross, Senior Political Law Counsel and Consultant at Akin Gump, discusses former President Donald Trump's comments calling to suspend the Constitution over baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Supreme Court oral arguments over President Joe Biden’s effort to shift the government’s deportation priorities.Shane Seppinni, founder of Seppini LLP, discusses FTX investors suing celebrities like Larry David and Tom Brady alleging they lured unsophisticated investors into the FTX debacle with their commercials for the company.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the convictions of the leader of the Oath Keepers and a top lieutenant of seditious conspiracy and whether prosecutions of Trump allies will be next.Constitutional law expert Michael Dorf, a professor at Cornell Law School, discusses his article, "Will the Supreme Court Respect the Respect for Marriage Act?"June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reproductive rights expert Mary Ziegler, a professor at UC Davis Law School, discusses anti-abortion activists next line of attack on abortion rights, and the allegations that Justice Samuel Alito leaked the outcome of a landmark case involving religious liberties and contraceptives.Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court reporter, discusses former President Donald Trump's losing record at the court as a private citizen.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Franke, Director of Columbia Law School's Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, discusses the same-sex marriage bill.Leon Fresco, a Partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the latest push by Texas over immigration.June Grasso hostsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bankrupty attorney Jonathan Shenson, a partner at Greenberg Glusker, discusses the bankruptcy of FTX, once the world’s second biggest crypto-exchange, following a stunningly swift collapse that has sparked the unwinding of Sam Bankman-Fried’s erstwhile crypto empire.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the appointment of an independent special counsel to oversee the Justice Departmentn's criminal investigations related to former President Donald Trump.Anne Coughlin, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, discusses the 11 year prison sentence given to Elizabeth Holmes for defrauding investors out of millions of dollars for her blood testing startup Theranos.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eric Goldman, a Professor at Santa Clara University Law School and Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute, discusses the largest multi-state privacy settlement in US history, with Google paying $391.5 million to 40 states over its controversial location-tracking practices.Elliot Stein, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the multiple lawsuits filed against President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joanna Schwartz, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses her new book, "Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable." June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Business law expert Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses Elon Musk's testimony in a trial over his unprecedented $55 billion dollar pay package at Tesla.J. Edward Moreno, employment discrimination reporter at Bloomberg Law, discusses how a Trump appointee on the EEOC Commission is initiating targeted discrimination probes against at least three companies who are providing their employees with abortion travel benefits.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Justin Wise, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses how secret videos brought down Kyle Roche, a rising legal star in the crypto field, offering a window into what can be the cutthroat nature of a fledgling trillion-dollar industry.Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses judges dismissing two civil cases against former president Donald Trump, a fraud lawsuit by Mary Trump, his niece, and a retaliation lawsuit by his former attorney, Michael Cohen.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law reporter, discusses the procedural maze Arizona put up against a death penalty inmate, blocking relief at every turn.Audrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, discusses whether the Supreme Court will bar affirmative action in college admissions.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former United States Solicitor General Gregory Garre, a partner at Latham & Watkins, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over challenges to affirmative action programs at the University of North Carolina and Harvard College. Paulette Granberry Russell, president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, discusses the importance of diversity and affirmative action in colleges and universities.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Antitrust law expert Harry First, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses a judge blocking Penguin Random House’s $2.18 billion acquisition of rival book publisher Simon & Schuster.Bloomberg Politics contributor Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, a professor of political science at Iona College, discusses issues in the upcoming election.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Business law expert Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the ramifications of Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.Elections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses a win by Republicans in Pennsylvania over mail-in ballots.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenmann, discusses lawsuits over the copyright in tattoos including the case where a tatto artist won against World Wrestling Entertainment and a video game maker over the depiction of wrestler Randy Orton’s tattoos in video games.Divorce attorney Chris Melcher, a partner at Walzer Melcher & Yoda, discusses the divorce of Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Douglas Berman, a professor at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, discusses whether Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson can form a new majority in some criminal cases.Nicholas Koffroth, a bankruptcy attorney with Fox Rothschild, discusses whether Alex Jones will be forced to pay the more than one billion dollars in verdicts against him for his lies that the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was a hoax.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Greg Farrell, Bloomberg Senior Legal Reporter, discusses the criminal tax fraud trial of the Trump Organization, that threatens to reveal the inner workings of the real estate empire.Randy Beck, a Professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, discusses Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's legal battle to quash a subpoena for him to testify in the Georgia criminal investigation into the 2016 presidential election.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Zak Kurtz who founded the law firm Sneaker & Streetwear Legal Services, discusses the intellectual property rights at stake in the breakup between Adidas and Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.Anne Dana, a partner at King & Spalding, discusses New York City's pay transparency law, a growing trend in states and cities.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anne Marie Lofaso, a law professor at the West Virginia University College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court refusing to take a case that could have overturned a series of early 20th century rulings, the so-called Insular Cases, that have been called racist, even by some justices.Ambassador Robert Holleyman, the president and CEO of Crowell & Moring International, discusses the impact of the UK's new prime minister Rishi Sunak on US-UK trade relations.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Securities law expert James Park, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the implications of the guilty verdict in the case of Trevor Milton, the founder of Nikola.Labor law expert Kate Andrias, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the rise of unions and a recent defamation lawsuit filed by pro-union Starbucks workers against the company.June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses Special Counsel John Durham's investigation into the FBI's investigation into Trump campaign's ties to Russia, and how it has failed to produce one conviction at trial.Kenneth Gross, Senior Political Law Counsel and Consultant at Akin Gump, discusses the many investigations and lawsuits former President Donald Trump is facing.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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.

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 settlement agreement between nonprofits and the US government over PACER charges.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 in bankruptcy to deal with more than 40,000 cancer lawsuits.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 group.Bloomberg Law reporter Chris Strohm discusses the Justice Department cracking down on corporate crime by encouraging compapnies to own up to misconduct.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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.

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/listener for privacy information.

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.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 contributors to a fund to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 religion might play out. Hosts: Lydia Wheeler and Kimberly Robinson Producer: Nick Falco See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.