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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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Jul 8, 2021 • 32min
The Supreme Court Shifts to the Right
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.

Jul 5, 2021 • 34min
Unprecedented Criminal Case Against Trump Org.
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.

Jul 4, 2021 • 27min
Transgender Student Wins Civil Rights Battle
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.

Jul 2, 2021 • 30min
Supreme Court Rules Against Unions Again
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.

Jun 29, 2021 • 30min
America's 'Trumpiest' Lawyer
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.

Jun 27, 2021 • 29min
Profane Cheerleader Post Wins Protection
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.

Jun 26, 2021 • 22min
Student Athletes Score Unanimous Win Over NCAA
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.

Jun 25, 2021 • 26min
High Court Gives Goldman A New Chance to Stop Lawsuit
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.

Jun 19, 2021 • 33min
Religious Rights Win Out in Clash With Gay Rights
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.

Jun 18, 2021 • 20min
Obamacare Saved at Supreme Court Again
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.


