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Judiciary expert Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court and what's ahead as she gets closer to a full Senate vote on her nomination. Labor law expert, Kate Andrias, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses an upstart labor union's stunning upset win of 55% of workers votes at the Staten Island...

Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses the Supreme Court taking a case that will decide whether Andy Warhol’s series of images of rock icon Prince were transformative or copyright infringement. Imre Stephen Szalai, professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, discusses a pair of cases at the Supreme Court that will test the expans...

Rebecca Roiphe, a professor at New York Law School, discusses the calls for Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself in cases involving disputes over the 2020 election, after revelations his wife advocated actions to overturn the presidential election. Former U.S. Attorney for Eastern Michigan, Matthew Schneider, a partner at law firm Honigman LLP, discusses the trial of the four men charged with...

Rachel Fiset, Managing Partner of Zweiback, Fiset & Coleman, discusses the legal and professional consequences for actor Will Smith after he slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars. Tyler Ochoa, Professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law, discusses dueling lawsuits over a Bored Ape NFT spinoff venture. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dorit Reiss, a Professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law, discusses a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Navy can limit deployment for 35 Seals who are refusing on religious grounds to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Gloria Browne-Marshall, a Professor at the Jay College of Criminal Justice, discusses the overtones of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Jud...

June Grasso speaks to Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, and Jessica Levinson, Professor of Constitutional Law at Loyola Law School, about the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanj Brown Jackson, and Republicans harsh questioning of Jackson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, to be the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. Mark Rifkin, a partner at Wolf Haldenstein, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over whether an Iowa fast-food worker must arbitrate her overtime claims against a Taco Bell franchise, rather than press them in federal court....

Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the raft of lies told by Tim Leissner, the star witness in the U.S. government’s case against Roger Ng, his former subordinate and the only Goldman Sachs employee to be brought to trial over billions of dollars that were looted from 1MDB.  June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kate Mackintosh, the Executive Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law School, discusses the difficulty of prosecuting Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal. Jon Michaels, a Professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the first day of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

Josh Eidelson, Bloomberg Businessweek Reporter, discusses discrimination based on weight and why being fat can cost you your job. Paige Smith, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses why you really can't be paid by your employer directly in bitcoin or cryptocurrency. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, and the former head of the Office of Immigration Litigation in the Obama administration, discusses how difficult it is for Ukrainian refugees to get into the United States at this time. Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the dueling lawsuits of billionaire Leon Black and former girlfriend Guzel Ganieva. June Grasso hosts. See omnystud...

Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, profiles Chase Strangio, the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who leads the organization's legal fight for transgender rights. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses Steve Bannon's attempt to use an advice-of-counsel defense in his upcoming trial. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

Jeffrey Kahn, a professor at Southern Methodist University School of Law, discusses Russia detaining WNBA star Brittney Griner on drug trafficking charges and what she faces in the Russian legal system. Laurel Calkins, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses how Texas abortion clinics lost a major battle in the fight over the state's abortion ban. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

Former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth, a professor at Cardozo Law School, discusses a hearing into whether Ghislaine Maxwell will get a new trial because a juror did not disclose his childhood sexual abuse during jury selection. Former federal prosecutor George Newhouse of Richards Carrington, discusses a Supreme Court ruling in favor of the U.S. government in its effort to limit disclosure of th...

Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses the Supreme Court curbing mandatory-minimum sentences in federal gun cases under the three strikes law, with colorful oral arguments using examples of a train robbery by Jesse James and phone calls by a mob boss. Andrew Koppelman, a law professor at Northwestern University, discusses a New York judge ruling that a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit can...

Elections law expert Rick Hasen, a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and author of the new book, "Cheap Speech," discusses the Supreme Court leaving in place Congressional maps in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Former U.S. Attorney for Eastern Michigan, Matthew Schneider, a partner at law firm Honigman LLP, discusses the start of the trial of the four men charged w...

Eric Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses a jury convicting a Texas militia member, the first person to go on trial over charges stemming from the insurrection. Michael Doyle, a professor at Columbia Law School and Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, discusses the plight of Ukranian refugees and the danger of a new Cold War. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener...

Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses a federal appellate court reviving a lawsuit claiming that the Apple TV+ show “Servant” infringed a 2013 movie, “The Truth About Emanuel.”  Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter, discusses the Supreme Court refusing to reinstate Bill Cosby’s conviction for sexual assault and turning away a grou...

Anthony Michael Kreis, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses a judge temporarily stopping the Texas Governor and the state's child welfare agency from investigating the parents of a transgender teenager for child abuse for providing gender affirmative treatments. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at Vermont Law School, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments in which justices debated putting new limits on the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions. Chase Kaniecki, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb, discusses how American companies are dealing with the Russian sanctions. June Grasso hosts See omnystudio.com/listen...

Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter, discusses the Supreme Court aggressively filling its calendar with culture-war clashes, taking up fights over abortion, gay rights, guns, affirmative action and voting rights, at the behest of conservative advocates. Olatunde Johnson, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses President Biden's nomination of the first Black woman to the Supreme...

Steve Sanders, a professor at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law, discusses the Supreme Court agreeing to rejoin the divisive debate over gay and speech rights by taking the case of a website designer who says her religious beliefs prevent her from designing wedding websites for same-sex couples. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses how the Supreme Court justices wrestl...

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Harry Nelson of Nelson Hardiman, the author of "The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain," discusses the verdict finding Eric Kay, a former communications director of the Los Angeles Angels, guilty in the overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs. Jennifer Rodgers, an adjunct professor at NYU Law School, discusses a federal judge's ruling that former President Dona...

Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses why a bid to wrest the copyright for “The Game of Life” away from Hasbro, could affect rights to creations from old board games to comic characters in blockbuster movies. Anthony Lin, Bloomberg Legal Editor, discusses Prince Andrew settling a sex-abuse lawsuit that linked him to Jeffrey Epstein. Christophe...