Bloomberg Law

Jonathan Peters, Media Law Professor at the University of Georgia, discusses Fox News' motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit against it filed by voting-technology firm Smartmatic Corp. Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg News Cybersecurity Reporter, discusses the background of the Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuits. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers, a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, discusses why former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort can’t be prosecuted by New York for the same offenses for which he received a presidential pardon. Former federal prosecutor Michael Zeldin, discusses the opening arguments in the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christopher Opfer, Bloomberg Law Team Leader for the Business of Law, discusses how a court order forcing some of Donald Trump’s former top tax lawyers to give thousands of documents to investigators shows the risk attorneys face when their own actions go under a microscope. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the second impeachment trial of Trump. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Caroline Mala Corbin, a Professor at the University of Miami School of Law, discusses the case of a high school football coach who says he has the right to pray at the 50-yard line after games. Audrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass Berry & Sims, discusses President Joe Biden’s Justice Department dropping a Trump administration lawsuit accusing Yale University of discrimination in admissions. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

M.C Sungaila, the chair of the appellate practice at Buchalter, discusses the Supreme Court's ruling that heirs of Jewish art dealers cannot sue at this time in U.S. courts to recover a collection of medieval relics sold to the Nazis for a third of their value during World War II. Lydia Wheeler, Senior Legal Reporter at Bloomberg Law, discusses vaccine shortages and the possibility of lawsuits over shortages. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig, discusses the legal strategy of each side in the second impeachment trial of former President Trump. Robin Effron, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, discusses how the Supreme Court will handle a case involving Trump’s use of his personal Twitter account for official business now that it's moot. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Commercial trial lawyer David Bissinger, a partner at Bissinger, Oshman & Williams LLP, discusses frustrated investors who are suing online brokerage Robinhood Markets, after getting locked out of trading in frenzied shares like GameStop. Family law attorney Dan Lipschutz, of Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, discusses divorces since Covid 19 and how the rich are using private judges to accelerate the process. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Immigration law expert Rick Su, a professor at the University of North Carolina Law School, discusses President Joe Biden's first major court setback after a Texas federal judge, a Trump appointee, blocked the new administration’s plan to pause deportations of undocumented immigrants for 100 days. Stephanie Barclay, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the Ninth Circuit hearing on a high school football coach who says praying on the field after a game is his constitutional right. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Legal Reporter David Yaffe-Bellany discusses how lawyers for the charged Capitol Hill rioters are coming up with defenses for their clients, including blaming former President Trump. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Supreme Court Reporter Greg Stohr discusses Chief Justice John Roberts’s refusal to preside over Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, giving Republicans an opportunity to focus on the process rather than the charges. Bloomberg Law Reporter Madison Alder discusses why the conservative legal movement is facing a post-Trump reckoning. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.