Run It By My Lawyer

Joe Samo details a multi-million dollar lawsuit against San Diego's County Supervisor. Nathan Fletcher resigned right after this lawsuit was filed.  The plaintiff alleges that Nathan Fletcher sexually harassed her and caused her termination from a government job.   Fletcher sent her messages and invited her to spend time with him. He called her a "natural Peruvian Beauty" and "M...

A high school coach prayed in the middle of the field after football games. Many players, parents, and students from other teams joined him. The high school told him to stop or he'll get fired ...  he didn't stop!  The school fired him.  Joe Samo details Coach Kennedy's 8-year journey to get his job back and millions of dollars. He fought this case to the Supreme Court - twice!   This...

Joe Biden and the federal government dropped the ball and caused an easily-avoidable scandal when the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed. Then, to make things worse, Joe Biden bailed out the rich, at taxpayers' expense. As if that's not horrible enough, Joe Biden lied to the American public about the entire fiasco.  Joe Samo details what happened, how the federal government caus...

Joe Samo analyzes Brett Favre's multi-million dollar lawsuits against Pat McAfee and Shannon Sharpe. You'll learn about civil procedure, jurisdiction, tort law, and much more while entertained by this epic battle. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a public figure's defamation lawsuit against a media member must show that the journalist intentionally lied or acted recklessly in regard...

In this episode of Run It By My Lawyer, Joe Samo details how Kobe Bryant's family got about $29 million from LA County for sharing photos of Kobe Bryant after the fatal helicopter crash. The lawsuit went from the California state court to the federal court, and had a full 11-day trial. The jury awarded $15 million, yet Vanessa Bryant increased the award to about $29 million. It's an amazing c...

A Marriott employee complained to her manager that Michael Irvin acted inappropriately before the last Super Bowl. Oh, did things escalate quickly?  The Marriott called the NFL, the NFL fired Michael Irvin, Michael Irvin denied the allegations, then Michael Irvin sued the Marriott for $100,000,000.00.  That's a lot of zeros. Michael Irvin alleges he greeted some fans, took photos with th...

Foie Gras is a yummy, juicy, and fat duck liver. California bans this delicious feast because producers must force-feed duck or geese so that their livers become artificially enlarged. To make the liver juicy and fatty, farmers usually stuff a pipe down a bird's neck to fatten them up as quickly as possible. The geese have to be so fat to force their livers to be fatter and jui...

In 1970, the NBA wanted to acquire the ABA. That merger would have curtailed the players' negotiation power against the NBA. Oscar Robertson, a young player from Indiana wouldn't have it. He fought for several years to prevent the merger and protect players' rights. Fellow basketball players called him "Big O" for many great reasons. His inspirational fight against big corporations, the senat...

In an unprecedented move, the states of Missouri and Louisiana filed a lawsuit against Joe Biden, Dr. Fauci, and the whole federal government. The attorney generals of Missouri and Louisiana allege that Joe Biden conspired with Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc., to suppress videos and articles about Covid, election fraud, Hunter Biden's laptop, and more. In this episode of Run It By My Lawyer,...

A federal jury in Virginia found that police officers violated the rights of Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario by assaulting and pepper spraying him during a traffic stop. Lieutenant Nazario, who is half African American and half Latino, acted peacefully and posed no threat to the police officers, who in turn pepper sprayed him. They pulled him over because he didn't have license plates on his car, bu...

In this episode of Run It By My Lawyer, Joe Samo details a lawsuit against  big Social Media companies like Facebook, Google, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat. The Seattle School District is going after all of them and asking for change because kids' depression and suicide rates have gone up substantially over the past few years. The Seattle schools are asking the companies to change their practic...

In this episode of Run It By My Lawyer, Joe Samo details a lawsuit against Aerosmith's Steven Tyler for events that happened in 1973. A plaintiff accuses Steven Tyler of having sex with her while she was a minor. Steven Tyler has admitted to being in love with a teenager in the mid 1970's.     Learn about the law, evidence, civil procedure, and more, by listening to this crazy story...

After losing the election to be Arizona's next governor, Kari Lake filed a lawsuit against Maricopa County, Arizona. Joe Samo details her allegations of election fraud, irregularities, and other errors during the gubernatorial election. Kari Lake's lawsuit sheds light on flaws in our election system. The evidence in this lawsuit will shock you. We need to make changes to how we administer the...

You'll love this episode as Joe Samo talks about impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and the journey of the masterpiece Rue Saint-Honore he painted in 1897. In 1939, the Nazis coerced a German art collector to sell the painting as she tried to flee Berlin. After 60 years in the underground art world, the painting resurfaced in 1999 in a Madrid museum. Since then, the heirs of the German art col...

Katie Meyer, a star goalkeeper at Stanford University, took her life at age 22 after receiving a University email threatening to kick her off the soccer and expel her from school. Katie Meyer defended a minor teammate who claimed a Stanford football player sexually assaulted her. Instead of investigating the football player, Stanford investigated and threatened Katie Meyer, even after the football...

Odell Beckham, Jr. sued Nike for $20,000,000.00 -  there are a lot of zeros in $20 million.  Joe Samo goes over the legal contracts that OBJ and Nike signed and how their relationship ended up in an Oregon state court. In this episode of Run It By My Lawyer, you'll learn vital legal concepts about civil procedure, jurisdiction, contracts, and much more. Plus, Joe Samo will give you his e...

In this episode of Run It By My Lawyer, Joe Samo details how Florida Governor Ron DeSantis shipped 50 Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard. It was a secret operation that used a former US Army counterintelligence to recruit the migrants. Now, the Venezuelan migrants filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Governor DeSantis. Listen to this episode to learn Constitutional laws an...

20 veterans die by suicide every day. These soldiers defend our country with courage and valor and the way back home isn't easy, especially for those suffering from PTSD. Recently, more families filed lawsuits against doctors for mistreating veterans suffering from PTSD. In this episode of Run It By My Lawyer, Joe Samo details two lawsuits filed against medical providers for not being able to prev...

Kanye West, AKA Ye, dropped Anti-Semitic comments on Twitter and then on the Drinking Champs podcast. Twitter froze Kanye's account, and many sponsors dropped him. The Adidas contract alone was paying Kanye $200 million a year. Joe Samo explores whether it's legal for companies to fire Kanye based on comments he made. Private companies cannot fire people at will for comments and expressi...

HBO violated federal privacy laws by disclosing customers' viewing preferences to Facebook. Customers who subscribed to HBO and had a Facebook account may be entitled to compensation. Contact Joe Samo to see if you qualify to file a claim. #HBO #ClassAction #HBOmax

Los Angeles has about 70,000 homeless people, and a large portion of them live in a contained area called SKID ROW.  In this episode of Run It By My Lawyer, Joe Samo details a massive lawsuit that forced Los Angeles to dedicate $236 million to address this problem. The plaintiffs proved that Los Angeles violated the Constitutional rights of these unhoused people by failing to provid...

What's the real reason Trump sued CNN? In this week's episode of Run It By My Lawyer, Joe Samo explains why Donald Trump's half-billion-dollar lawsuit against CNN is ......  worthless. It's a frivolous lawsuit and Trump must have other motivations for filing this lawsuit. Law school can be taught by going over a small portion of Trump's lawsuits. You'll learn about jurisdiction, fre...

In the last year of his Presidency, Donald Trump issued an Executive Order to ban Chinese-owned TikTok. He feared that the Chinese government would take hold of private data and use that as a weapon against the United States. TikTok filed a lawsuit against President Trump claiming he didn't have the Constitutional authority to ban TikTok. Joe Samo details the merits of the lawsuit, the Constitutio...

In this episode of Run It By My Lawyer, Joe Samo exposes the corrupt nature of the New York Attorney General's Office.        Letitia James, the attorney general, is wasting taxpayer money and letting convicted criminals off the hook in her chase to take down Donald Trump.  Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty to defrauding the State of New York out of millions of do...

Doctors found that mothers' use of Tylenol could have caused their children to become autistic. The research showed that acetaminophen showed up in the babies' urine 2 days after they were born and that traces of acetaminophen stayed in the samples taken from pregnant mothers years after the babies were born. In this episode, Joe Samo details how federal courts will adjudicate the e...