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Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig discusses the legal peril facing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in light of the New York Attorney General’s report corroborating 11 claims of sexual harassment by Cuomo.Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Biden Administration's lawsuit against Texas to block the governor's order allowing state troopers to stop anyone who isn't in law enforcement from transporting migrants along the Texas border.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Darryl Brown, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, discusses bail, a part of the criminal justice system, where deals are often made behind closed doors, and which critics say favors the rich.William Banks, a professor at Syracuse University College of Law, discusses two recent moves by the Biden Justice Department, issuing a memo calling for the release of former President Trump's tax returns and releasing handwritten notes showing Trump urging former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to back claims of voter fraud.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christopher Melcher of Walzer Melcher, discusses a victory for Angelina Jolie in her divorce battle with Brad Pitt, with a California appeals court agreeing with her that the private judge deciding who gets custody of their minor children, should be disqualified.Madison Alder, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses progressive groups looking to the next Supreme Court term—in which the justices will take up cases involving abortion, guns and possibly affirmative action—to fire up the base in advance of the 2022 congressional midterms.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Emily Dooley, Bloomberg Law Staff Correspondent, discusses how a diver, a surfer, a winemaker, and a Frenchman who sunk wine storage cages off the coast of Santa Barbara in an attempt to create the world’s first members-only underwater wine cellar and club, ran into legal troubles.Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses how Matthew Grimes went from Tom Barrack's intern to his protege to his co-defendant.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Constitutional law professor Stephen Vladeck of the University of Texas Law School, discusses the U.S. Justice Department refusing to defend Republican Representative Mo Brooks in a lawsuit alleging that he helped incite the deadly January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, a decision that might mean the department also won’t help protect former President Donald Trump.Audrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass Berry & Sims, discusses a federal judge dismissing a lawsuit against the University of Texas at Austin that attacked its consideration of race in admissions.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses why Tiffany settled an eight-year lawsuit with Costco over copyright infringement and counterfeiting after the wholesaler sold a generic diamond ring bearing the “Tiffany” name. Greg Farrell, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses Carey Dunne who spent decades at the top of the New York legal profession, leaving his elite law firm to find the biggest case of his career -- investigating former President Donald Trump and his 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 charges against Trump ally Tom Barrack, the founder of investment firm Colony Capital, that he illegally lobbied the U.S. government on behalf of the United Arab Emirates and lied to the FBI about it.Michael Gerrard, a professor at Columbia Law School and faculty director of Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, discusses his article for Bloomberg Law, "Killer Heat Waves Warrant FEMA Action Under New Authority."June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the first prison term resulting from the Capitol riot and defenses being raised.Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the implications of a Texas federal judge ruling that DACA is illegal.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ronan McCrea, Professor of Constitutional and European Law at University College London, discusses EU Law and the current controversy with Hungary and Poland.Erin Mulvaney, Senior Legal Reporter at Bloomberg Law, discusses office culture wars escalating as workers balk at return-to-office mandates.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mary Anne Pazanowski, Senior Legal Reporter for Bloomberg Law, discusses how comedian Sacha Baron Cohen won a lawsuit brought by former judge Roy Moore over Cohen’s use of an alleged pedophile detector during an interview...one of several lawsuits Cohen has won over prank interviews.Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond Law School, discusses President Biden's recent judicial nominations.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jonathan Macey, a professor at Yale Law School, discusses business wins and losses at the Supreme Court this past term.Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law Supreme Court reporter, discusses the persistent gender gap at the lectern of the court with male advocates outnumbering female advocates 125 to 28 in the most recent term.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses Elon Musk's testimony in a Delaware trial over Tesla’s 2016 takeover of SolarCity, continuing to argue that the purchase was a sound decision and that it wasn’t done to benefit himself instead of shareholders.Evan Starr, an assistant professor of management and organization at the University of Maryland, discusses President Joe Biden calling on the FTC to ban or limit employee noncompetes as part of a broad executive order.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Prager, a managing director and head of the U.S. Restructuring Advisory practice at Kroll, discusses the lawsuits that have been filed over the building collapse in Surfside, Florida,Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses President Joe Biden moving to upend decades of policy on migrants seeking asylum.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jim Dempsey of the UC Berkeley School of Law, discusses the lawsuit former President Trump filed against Facebook, Twitter, and Google over their decisions to suspend or ban him from using their platforms. David Yaffe-Bellany, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses why thousands of federal prisoners released to home confinement, are dreading the end of the pandemic.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Constitutional law professor Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court's latest term and the influence of the new 6 to 3 conservative majority.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Stephen Vladeck, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas Law School, discusses the Supreme Court's term with its new conservative majority.Greg Farrell, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses former President Donald Trump's legal peril.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers, a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, discusses the unprecedented criminal case against former President Donald Trump’s company and its CFO.Elections expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court upholding two Arizona voting restrictions, limiting the reach of the Voting Rights Act in a decision down ideological lines.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Franke, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court refusing to question the rights of transgender students to use school bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity, rejecting an appeal in a long-running civil rights battle.Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses why Facebook's antitrust win is likely short-lived.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Supreme Court ruling that certain immigrants awaiting a decision on whether they can stay in the U.S. because they fear torture at home, must be detained while their cases work their way through the system.Bethany Berger, a professor at the University of Connecticut Law School, discusses the Supreme Court ruling against unions on a decades-old regulation that gives union organizers access to agricultural company land for part of the year to talk to workers.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Yaffe-Bellany, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who is fighting the Biden administration, past securities charges, and corruption allegations from his own former staff.Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses how President Joe Biden has confirmed more judicial nominees than any other President since Richard Nixon at this point in the first year of his presidency.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the Supreme Court ruling that a public high school violated the Constitution when it punished a 14-year-old cheerleader for a profane Snapchat rant.Former federal prosecutor George Newhouse of Richards Carrington discusses the Supreme Court ruling that police can’t automatically pursue fleeing misdemeanor suspects into homes without warrants.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Audrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass Berry & Sims, discusses the implications of the Supreme Court's decision clearing the way for greater compensation for student-athletes.Jonathan Macey, a professor at Yale Law School, discusses the Supreme Court dealing a blow to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac investors in their challenge to the government’s collection of more than $100 billion in profits from the mortgage giants.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Securities litigator Mark Rifkin, a partner at Wolf Haldenstein, discusses the Supreme Court giving Goldman Sachs Group a new chance to stop a lawsuit that accuses the company of misleading shareholders by masking conflicts of interest in mortgage-backed securities it sold.Constitutional law professor Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the justices handing down mixed rulings in narrow wins for the left and right, perhaps showing the newest two justices are more aligned with the Chief Justice in the center of the court.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Constitutional law professor Steve Sanders of Indiana University's Maurer School of Law, discusses the Supreme Court decision that Philadelphia violated the Constitution by excluding a Catholic charity from the city’s foster-care program because the group wouldn’t help place children with same-sex couples.Brandon Barnes, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses a ruling by a federal judge in Louisiana blocking the Biden administration's pause on the sale of new oil and gas leases on federal land.Daniel Novak, a publishing industry attorney, discusses ambush TV interviews and possible lawsuits.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Constitutional law professor Neil Kinkopf of the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court rejecting the latest Republican attack on Obamacare.Affirmative action expert Susan Sturm, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the implications of the Supreme Court asking the Biden Administration to weigh in on whether it should take on a challenge to Harvard College’s use of race as an admissions factor.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Erik Feldman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, discusses the American father-son duo charged with orchestrating former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's dramatic escape from Japan, pleading guilty in a Tokyo court.Securities attorney Robert Heim, a partner at Tarter, Krinsky & Drogan, discusses why the SEC is being urged to tread carefully as it considers toughening rules that allow corporate executives to regularly unload stock through scheduling plans.Robert Iafolla, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses a judge dismissing a workers' lawsuit over Covid-19 vaccine mandates, the first to weigh in on the issue.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National security law expert William Banks, a professor at Syracuse University College of Law, discusses the controversy over revelations the Justice Department under former President Donald Trump had secretly subpoenaed records from House Democrats, former White House counsel Don McGahn and members of the media.Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the race to be Manhattan’s next top prosecutor.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ruth Colker, a professor of constitutional law and disability discrimination at Ohio State University, discusses whether sports organizations should have to give their star athletes, like tennis star Naomi Osaka, modifications or reasonable accommodations for mental health reasons.Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson discusses the Supreme Court decisions that the court will rule on before the end of the term in June.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Yaffe-Bellany, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses how amateur internet sleuths have turned the insurrection on January 6th into the ultimate online manhunt.Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses President Biden's judicial nominations.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Erik Feldman, a University of Pennsylvania professor of law, health policy, and medical ethics, discusses some of the lawsuits brought by workers against employers who are requiring them to get vaccinated against Covid-19.Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the Biden administration’s decision to defend Donald Trump in a defamation suit.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Second Amendment expert Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses a federal judge overturning California's 32-year ban on assault weapons, in a ruling comparing the AR-15 rifle to a Swiss Army knife.Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Supreme Court unanimously ruling that people who entered the U.S. illegally can’t seek permanent residency even though they now have temporary legal status.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anne Coughlin, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School who specializes in feminist jurisprudence, discusses the August trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the defunct blood testing company Theranos, and possible defenses.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meghan Tribe, Bloomberg Law Correspondent, and Summer Eberhard, West Coast-based managing director at legal recruiter Major Lindsey & Africa, discuss the hot market for young corporate lawyers and the exhorbitant bonuses law firms are paying to retain and attract associates.Richard Ausness, a professor at the University of Kentucky Law School, discusses the Supreme Court's refusal to hear Johnson & Johnson's appeal from a $2.1 billion verdict.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses how the Biden administration is using executive privilege to keep some documents related to former President Trump, a secret, including Trump's tax returns.Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, discusses the Supreme Court turning down Johnson & Johnson's appeal of a $2.1 billion verdict.Greg Stohr, Bloomberg Supreme Court Reporter, discusses Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch rejecting a request from two churches to block a Colorado law.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Environmental law professor, Pat Parenteau of the Vermont Law School, discusses how environmental advocates hoping for a complete reversal of Trump-era legal positions have faced a series of disappointments in the first months of the Biden administration.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Antitrust law expert Harry First, a professor at New York University Law School, and Malathi Nayak, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discuss the high stakes Apple-Epic trial.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel Alonso, a partner at Buckley LLP and former chief assistant district attorney, discusses the Manhattan District Attorney convening a special grand jury in the investigation of former President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.Joanna Schwartz, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the Supreme Court once again turning down a case involving qualified immunity for police.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brendan Barnes, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst for Energy Litigation, discusses how the Dakota Access oil pipeline faces continued threats to its existence, even after surviving another shutdown battle in federal court.Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Supreme Court siding with the government in a dispute centering on immigrants reentering the country after their deportations were based on rules that were later invalidated.June Grasso hostsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Healthcare attorney Rob Fuller, a partner at Nelson Hardiman, discusses recent CDC guidance on masks and what it means for businesses.Paige Smith, Bloomberg Law Reporter for labor and employment, discusses employers separating vaccinated and unvaccinated workers, for example, by shift or floor.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor George Newhouse of Richards Carrington, discusses the Supreme Court decision bolstering the protection of the home from police search.Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, discusses President Joe Biden's latest list of judicial nominees.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stephen Vladeck, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas Law School, discusses the Supreme Court taking a case that could result in the court gutting the constitutional right to abortion.Greg Stohr, Bloomberg Supreme Court Reporter, discusses the Supreme Court offering hints of the kind of paradigm shift conservatives have long craved by adding major abortion and gun-rights cases to its docket.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Greg Farrell, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the New York Attorney General opening a criminal probe of the Trump Organization.Greg Bordelon, a professor at the University of Maine School of Law, discusses what a last name is worth in a divorce.June Grasso hostsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the sentencing of a father in the college admissions scandal and the upcoming trial of 8 parents.Holly Barker, Bloomberg Law Senior Legal Reporter, discusses how dementia takes a toll on aging lawyers.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Election law expert Rick Hasen, a professor at the University of California Irvine School of Law, discusses recent voting restrictions passed by Republicans and how they show the long reach of a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.Jonathan Smith, Executive Director of the Washington Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, discusses the federal civil rights charges filed against Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Greg Farrell, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses why prosecutors chose the "hard way" in raiding Rudy Giuliani's apartment.Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the federal civil rights charges against Derek Chauvin and the three other former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses an appeal over the Second Circuit's finding that Andy Warhol infringed the copyright of a photographer in his silkscreens of rock icon Prince.Richard Ausness, a professor at the University of Kentucky Law School discusses the landmark opioid trial in West Virginia.June Grasso hostsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joshua Davis, a professor at the University of San Francisco Law School, discusses Epic Games allegations that Apple's 30% commission on app sales is a violation of antitrust law.Mark Osler, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over drug sentencing laws.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew Rossman, a partner at Quinn Emanuel discusses a case where a Delaware judge ordered Kohlberg & Co. to complete its private equity purchase of DecoPac Inc., a cake decorating technology company, despite the economic turmoil of the pandemic.Mark Osler, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law who specializes in sentencing policy, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over allowing shorter sentences for lower level drug offenders.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steve Sanders, a professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court leaving intact California’s ban on government-funded travel to states it sees as having anti-LGBTQ policies, rejecting Texas’s bid to challenge the policy.Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, discusses President Biden's latest judicial nominees.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.