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Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law reporter, discusses the procedural maze Arizona put up against a death penalty inmate, blocking relief at every turn. Audrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, discusses whether the Supreme Court will bar affirmative action in college admissions. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former United States Solicitor General Gregory Garre, a partner at Latham & Watkins, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over challenges to affirmative action programs at the University of North Carolina and Harvard College.  Paulette Granberry Russell, president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, discusses the importance of diversity and affirmative acti...

Antitrust law expert Harry First, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses a judge blocking Penguin Random House’s $2.18 billion acquisition of rival book publisher Simon & Schuster. Bloomberg Politics contributor Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, a professor of political science at Iona College, discusses issues in the upcoming election. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...

Business law expert Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the ramifications of Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. Elections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses a win by Republicans in Pennsylvania over mail-in ballots. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenmann, discusses lawsuits over the copyright in tattoos including the case where a tatto artist won against World Wrestling Entertainment and a video game maker over the depiction of wrestler Randy Orton’s tattoos in video games. Divorce attorney Chris Melcher, a partner at Walzer Melcher & Yoda, discusses the divorce...

Douglas Berman, a professor at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, discusses whether Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson can form a new majority in some criminal cases. Nicholas Koffroth, a bankruptcy attorney with Fox Rothschild, discusses whether Alex Jones will be forced to pay the more than one billion dollars in verdicts against him for his lies that the 2012 Sandy Hook e...

Greg Farrell, Bloomberg Senior Legal Reporter, discusses the criminal tax fraud trial of the Trump Organization, that threatens to reveal the inner workings of the real estate empire. Randy Beck, a Professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, discusses Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's legal battle to quash a subpoena for him to testify in the Georgia criminal investigation into the 201...

Zak Kurtz who founded the law firm Sneaker & Streetwear Legal Services, discusses the intellectual property rights at stake in the breakup between Adidas and Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Anne Dana, a partner at King & Spalding, discusses New York City's pay transparency law, a growing trend in states and cities. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

Anne Marie Lofaso, a law professor at the West Virginia University College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court refusing to take a case that could have overturned a series of early 20th century rulings, the so-called Insular Cases, that have been called racist, even by some justices. Ambassador Robert Holleyman, the president and CEO of Crowell & Moring International, discusses the impact of th...

Securities law expert James Park, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the implications of the guilty verdict in the case of Trevor Milton, the founder of Nikola. Labor law expert Kate Andrias, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the rise of unions and a recent defamation lawsuit filed by pro-union Starbucks workers against the company. June Grasso hosts.  See omnystudio.com/listene...

Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses Special Counsel John Durham's investigation into the FBI's investigation into Trump campaign's ties to Russia, and how it has failed to produce one conviction at trial. Kenneth Gross, Senior Political Law Counsel and Consultant at Akin Gump, discusses the many investigations and lawsuits former President Donald Trump is facing. June Grasso hosts. Se...

Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenmann, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over whether Andy Warhol's silkscreen series of Prince infringed the copyright of a photographer. Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law Supreme Court Reporter, discusses why the Solicitor General's Office remains a pipeline for diversity in Supreme Court oral arguments....

Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses a case where, whether a Texas death-row inmate gets DNA testing, will hinge on a technical ruling by the US Supreme Court about statutes of limitations. Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a Professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the high stakes seditious conspiracy trial of the Oath Keepers. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener...

Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over the pork industry's challenge to a new California law requiring the humane treatment of pigs, asking whether it might open the way for other states to try to impose their moral values beyond their borders. Shyam Balganesh, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the copyright clash over...

Mark Kantrowitz, an expert in student loans and financial aid, discusses the legal challenges to President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program. Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond Law School, an expert in the judiciary, discusses federal appeals court Judge James Ho’s decision to boycott recent graduates from Yale Law School when hiring clerks. June Grasso hosts. See omnys...

Maryland Assistant Public Defender Erica Suter, the attorney for Adnan Syed whose case was chronicled in the hit podcast "Serial," discusses Syed's release after serving more than two decades in prison for murder and his fight to prove his innocence. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the latest circuit court ruling which leaves Dreamers in limbo once again. June Grasso host...

Elections law expert Richard Hasen, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the Supreme Court’s conservative wing considering limiting the creation of majority-Black voting districts in a new blow to the Voting Rights Act. Former Naval officer James Barney, a partner at Finnegan, makes his Supreme Court debut arguing for a fellow veteran seeking retroactive disability benefits. June Grasso hosts...

Eric Goldman, a Professor at Santa Clara University Law School and Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute, discusses the Supreme Court jumping into the politically fraught debate over Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court reporter, discusses Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's first week on the court and how she emerged as an active, forceful questioner. Environmental law professor Pat Parenteau of the Vermont Law School, discusses how some of the conservative justices signaled interest in limiting the reach of the Clean Water Act. June Grasso hosts.   See omnystudio.com/listene...

Antitrust law expert Harry First, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses how Amazon and the five largest US publishing houses are free for now of antitrust litigation over claims they manipulated online book and e-book markets. Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter, discusses former President Donald Trump asking the US Supreme Court to intervene in the fight over government papers se...

Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses Elon Musk's latest move, a reversal of course, saying he will go through with the deal for Twitter on the original terms of the agreement. Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses the trial of Trump ally Tom Barrack, charged with acting as an agent of the United Arab Emirates in trying to influence US policy. June Grasso hosts...

Bloomberg legal reporter Joel Rosenblatt discusses lawsuits attempting to place responsibility for the dangers of social media on the companies that run the most popular platforms. Securities law attorney Robert Heim, a partner at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP, discusses Wall Street Banks being hit with more than $2 billion in penalties for failing to monitor employees’ communications on unautho...

Catherine Ross, a professor at George Washington University Law School, discusses whether the First Amendment protects lawyers who lie. Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the overhaul of the Electoral Count Act. Adam Cooke, counsel with Hogal Lovells, discusses new class action lawsuits over website-browsing surveillance. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener...

Former United States Solicitor General Gregory Garre, a partner at Latham & Watkins, discusses the upcoming term of the Supreme Court and whether it will be as controversial as the last term. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst Jennifer Rie discusses the government taking American Airlines Group and JetBlue Airways to court to break up their partnership. Elora Mukherjee, the Director of Columbia Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, discusses the lawsuit over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard. Bankruptcy attorney Jonathan Pasternak, a pa...