Bloomberg Law

Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses luxury brand Hermès winning its trial against the digital artist behind “MetaBirkin” nonfungible tokens after convincing a Manhattan jury that the sale of the NFTs violated Hermès’ rights to the “Birkin” trademark.Roy Strom, Bloomberg Law correspondent, discusses how a rule in a North Carolina federal court threatens to cause chaos in the lawsuits on behalf of military veterans and their families exposed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bankruptcy law expert Lindsey Simon, a professor at the University of Georgia Law School, discusses the controversial Texas Two-Step bankruptcy and a federal appellate court ruling that Johnson & Johnson can’t use the bankruptcy maneuver to resolve more than 40,000 cancer lawsuits over its baby powder.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg legal reporter Ava Benny-Morrison, discusses the US crackdown on trade-sanction violators turning to the art world as federal prosecutors in New York track down works bought or sold by Russian oligarchs.Business law expert Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses a jury in San Francisco clearing Elon Musk in a trial where Tesla investors claimed that he defrauded them when he tweeted that he was considering taking the company private and had “funding secured."June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trusts & Estates attorney Sarah Wentz, a partner at Fox Rothschild, discusses Priscilla Presley challenging her late daughter's will, over a recently discovered 2016 document — one that ousted Priscilla and her daughter's former manager as co-trustees of Lisa Marie Presley's trust, replacing them with Lisa Marie's children, Riley and Benjamin Keough.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses French luxury design house Hermès International SA’s trademark trial against digital artist Mason Rothschild for creating and selling “MetaBirkin” NFTs, which depict digital images of the famous Birkin handbag.Josh Lichtenstein, a partner who heads the ERISA fiduciary practice at Ropes & Gray, discusses the US Labor Department facing an unwelcome case of litigation deja vu, as it attempts to implement a climate-friendly retirement investment rule.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A federal appeals court has ruled that J-and-J can't use the bankruptcy of a specially created unit to resolve more than 40-thousand cancer lawsuits over its product.That means the company will most likely need to defend itself against claims that tainted talc in its baby powder causes cancer. For more on the case, June Grasso speaks to  Bloomberg intelligence litigation analyst Holly Froum.  Plus, French luxury designer Hermes filed a federal lawsuit against a digital artist who is selling a Meta-Birkin NFT. The image depicts the famous Birkin handbag covered in cartoonish fur instead of leather.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Martin Edel, Co-Chair of the sports law practice and counsel at Goulston & Storrs, and an instructor in law at Columbia Law School, discusses issues in sports law from the antitrust fight between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour to college athletes now able to get paid for their name, image and likeness.Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses the trial of two former Fox executives charged with bribing soccer officials to win lucrative broadcast rights to tournaments.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Harris, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, discusses the charges against five Memphis police officers in the beating death of Tyrie Nichols during a traffic stop.Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses the lawsuit by Tesla investors against Elon Musk for those infamous "funding secured" tweets and how Musk's testimony will affect his defense.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School discusses the trial of five Proud Boys, including the former leader of the group, Enrique Tarrio, for seditious conspiracy.Howard Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court revisiting the test for businesses to deny workers’ religious accommodation requests.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

James Barney, a partner at Finnegan, discusses the Supreme Court's first decision of the term in which the justices denied his client, Navy veteran Adolpho Arellano, the right to file for retroactive disability benefits after the one-year deadline, even though the delay was caused by his service-connected injury.M.C. Sungaila, a partner at the Complex Appellate Litigation Group, discusses the Supreme Court tossing out a case about the scope of the attorney client privilege, saying they shouldn’t have taken it up in the first place.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.