Bloomberg Law

Bloomberg
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Jan 29, 2023 • 23min

Court Turns Down Veteran in First Decision of Term

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.
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Jan 29, 2023 • 35min

US Sues Google & Taylor Swift Ticket Fiasco

Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the Justice Department suing to break up Google's ad tech business and the Congressional hearings over the Taylor Swift ticket fiasco.Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a Partner at Holland & Knight, discusses Texas and other Republican-led states suing over a Biden immigration policy again.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jan 24, 2023 • 34min

Trial of Tesla Investors Versus Elon Musk

Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the trial where Tesla investors are suing Elon Musk over his now infamous 2018 tweet in which he said he was considering taking the electric-car maker private and had “funding secured.” Kal Raustiala, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the first US copyright lawsuits targeting AI art generators.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jan 21, 2023 • 29min

How Strong Is the Case Against Alec Baldwin ?

Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the involuntary manslaughter charges that are being filed against actor Alec Baldwin for the shooting of the cinematographer on the set of the Western "Rust" in New Mexico.Securities law expert Robert Heim, a partner at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin, discusses the turf war between the SEC and the CFTC over which agency will regulate the cryptocurrency industry.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jan 21, 2023 • 28min

Revelations in Trump Deposition

Bloomberg legal reporter Erik Larson discusses the revelations in former President Trump's deposition in the E. Jean Carroll case accusing him of defamation, and also how a judge and the government is allowing rapper and accused cryptocurrency thief Heather Morgan to commute to a new job, even though she is under house arrest.Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court oral arguments over whether the US government should be allowed to bring criminal charges against Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jan 17, 2023 • 32min

Jackson Joins Supreme Court's Million Dollar Book Club

Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter Greg Stohr discusses Ketanji Brown Jackson’s new book deal adding to what has become a phenomenon at the Supreme Court: Justices looking to craft their own images and perhaps score a hefty payday along the way.Eric Ruben, a Professor at SMU's Dedman School of Law, discusses the Supreme Court refusing to block New York’s new handgun restrictions at this time.David J. Woolf, a Partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, discusses the Federal Trade Commission proposing a ban on non-compete clauses in employment contracts that keep workers from switching jobs — a sweeping rule likely to affect millions of Americans.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jan 14, 2023 • 42min

Biden's Growing Classified Documents Dilemma

National security law expert Brad Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the discovery of classified documents in President Biden's home and former office.Appellate attorney M.C. Sungaila of Buckalter discusses the Supreme Court's consideration of a broadening of the attorney-client privilege relating to communications that involve both law and business.Judiciary expert Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses the restart of Biden judicial nominations.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jan 11, 2023 • 32min

Biden's Border Fixes; George Santos Under Fire

Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses new measures announced by President Biden to try to curb the influx of migrants at the Southern Border.Elections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the controversies and investigations into New York Republican Congressman George Santos.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jan 8, 2023 • 23min

High School Transgender Bathroom Ban Upheld

Noa Ben Asher, a professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, discusses the 11th Circuit ruling that a Florida school board didn’t violate transgender high school student Drew Adams’ equal protection rights when it banned him from using the boys' bathrooms.Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law reporter, discusses how conservative states challenging the Biden administration have found their preferred venue and an ideal judge in a rural Louisiana farming parish.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jan 7, 2023 • 26min

Coca-Cola Wins Greenwashing Lawsuits

Environmental law expert Pat Parenteau, a professor at the Vermont Law and Graduate School, discusses the flood of lawsuits over the climate claims of food and beverage companies.California attorney Jeff Lewis of Jeff Lewis Law, discusses law firm Proskauer Rose suing its former Chief Operating Officer alleging that Jonathan O'Brien stole a slew of confidential information from the firmJune Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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