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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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Jun 18, 2022 • 32min
SCOTUS Rules Immigrants Can Be Detained Indefinitely
Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a Partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Supreme Court ruling that immigrants in detention can be held indefinitely without a bond hearing.Former federal prosecutor Jordan Strauss, a Kroll Managing Director and Kroll Institute Fellow, discusses the January 6th hearings.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 17, 2022 • 14min
Court Turns Down Happy the Elephant's Bid for Freedom
Elizabeth Stein, an attorney with the Nonhuman Rights Project, discusses New York's highest court, in a divided decision, turning down their case to get Happy the Elephant recognized as a legal person entitled to protection against unlawful imprisonment and released from the Bronx Zoo where she lives alone in a one acre exhibit.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 14, 2022 • 19min
Lawsuit Targets High-Flying ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses Paramount Pictures being sued for releasing its blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick,” without securing a license from the estate of the writer whose story inspired the original film about four decades ago.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 11, 2022 • 33min
Jimmy Carter Enters Fray of Environmental Dispute
Environmental law professor Pat Parenteau of the Vermont Law School, discusses former President Jimmy Carter stepping into the legal dispute over the building of a road through a federal wildlife refuge that could gut his landmark environmental law.David Lee, the Executive Director of the Chinese American Voters Education Committee and a lecturer at San Francisco State University, discusses the implications of the recall of progressive San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 10, 2022 • 15min
The Incredible Shrinking Supreme Court Docket
Constitutional law expert Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School, discusses why the Supreme Court is handing down its fewest decisions in decades this term.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 9, 2022 • 28min
DOJ Ramping Up Probe Into Trump's Inner Circle
Chris Strohm, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the more aggressive phase of the Justice Department's investigation into the Capitol riots, focusing on potential felonies by former President Trump's inner circle.Eric Talley, a Professor at Columbia Law School, discusses why Elon Musk's buyer's remorse won't get him out of the Twitter deal.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 7, 2022 • 29min
Johnny Depp's Win and the Aftermath
Neama Rahmani, President and co-founder of West Coast Trial Lawyers, discusses the verdict in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial and its repercussions.Erin Mulvaney, Bloomberg Law Senior Reporter, discusses strippers in California leading an effort to unionize clubs in the state.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 4, 2022 • 30min
Mistrust at the Supreme Court Amid Historic Backlog
Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law Supreme Court Reporter, discusses how the Supreme Court is heading into the homestretch of the term with more than half its work incomplete, as the justices and their law clerks deal with an investigation into the leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. Second Amendment expert Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the upcoming Supreme Court opinion on New York's gun law and the state of gun control legislation across the country. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 4, 2022 • 26min
Real Setback for Special Counsel John Durham
Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses how the first courtroom test for Special Counsel John Durham ended in failure, a significant setback for his investigation into the Russia investigation.Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and co-director of the High Tech Law Institute discusses the Supreme Court blocking a Texas law that would require social media platforms to allow hate speech and extremism.June Grasso hostsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 3, 2022 • 15min
How to Spot Dishonest Lawyers: They’re Playing a Game
Taya Cohen, an associate professor of organizational behavior and business ethics at Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, discusses her study published in "Negotiation Journal," based on her research into why some lawyers are more “honest” than others.June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.


