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Former federal prosecutor, Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the controversy surrounding the resignation of Geoffrey S. Berman, the chief federal prosecutor in New York, after a remarkable standoff with Attorney General William Barr and contradictory comments from President Donald Trump. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael Dorf, a professor at Cornell Law School, discusses the Supreme Court refusing to take up a new test of “qualified immunity,” rejecting several appeals that challenged the legal doctrine that has become a broad liability shield for police officers accused of civil rights violations. June Grasso hosts.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses how a divided Supreme Court dealt a rebuke to President Donald Trump, blocking him from ending the Obama-era program that shields 670,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation and lets them seek jobs. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steve Sanders, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law, discusses the Supreme Court's landmark decision that federal law protects gay and transgender workers from job discrimination, giving millions of LGBT people in dozens of states civil rights they've sought for decades. Pat Parenteau, a professor at Vermont Law School, discusses the Supreme Court upholding a crucial permit for...

National Security lawyer Bradley Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses the Trump administration seeking an emergency restraining order to stop the publication of a tell-all book by John Bolton, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Henning, a professor at Wayne State University Law School, discusses PG&E Corp. pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter, admitting in a California courtroom that the bankrupt utility killed 84 people after its equipment ignited the deadliest wildfire in state history. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Samuel Estreicher, a professor at New York University law school and director of its Center for Labor and Employment Law, discusses the legal risks employers are wrestling with in getting workers back on the job while the pandemic is still spreading. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses a federal appeals court hearing on the U.S. Justice Department...

Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at Vermont Law School, discusses a string of courtroom defeats for President Trump because federal agencies have not adequately considered the consequences to a warming planet. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor George Newhouse of Richards Carrington, discusses qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that has come under fire because it protects police against civil lawsuits for the violation of constitutional rights. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses a federal judge ordering that ICE agents cannot arrest undocumented immigrants at New York state courthouses....

Merrick Rossein, a professor at the City University of New York School of Law, discusses how businesses are taking steps to support their workers during protests against police brutality, while also retaining the legal right to fire workers who participate if they disagree with their actions. Christopher Opfer, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses how two former Obama civil rights lawyers "switched...

Mark Rifkin, a partner at Wolf Haldenstein discusses s federal judge questioning Facebook Inc.’s $550 million settlement of a class-action privacy lawsuit, asking whether that was really a lot of money. Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses how the doors at federal courthouses around the nation are slowly starting to swing open with the convening of socially distanced grand juries. June...

Intellectual Property Litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, discusses how filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan and Apple defeated claims that their Apple TV+ show “Servant” rips off a 2013 film with a similar premise, “The Truth About Emanuel." June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert Hockett, a professor at Cornell Law School, discusses the Supreme Court ruling that U.S. Bank NA won’t have to face a lawsuit challenging steep losses to its pension plan, because the plan participants who filed suit have nothing to gain or lose through the case. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The former Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Fortuno, a partner at Steptoe & Johnson, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the oversight board responsible for resolving Puerto Rico’s debt crisis, rejecting a bondholder challenge. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig, of Lowenstein Sandler, discusses the new charges against the four police officers in the death of George Floyd and how difficult it will be to get a conviction. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses President Trump’s threat to send military troops into states and whether he has the authority under the law. Brad Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses the latest twists in the case of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. June Grasso hosts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor at Columbia Law School and a leading scholar of critical race theory, discusses the protests in response to the killing of George Floyd while in police custody. Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School and a constitutional law expert, discusses the Supreme Court rejecting a call by a California church to block restrictions on worship services during the...

Peter Stambleck, a partner at matrimonial firm, Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, discusses the likely spike in divorces in the U.S. after the pandemic. In China divorces hit record high numbers in several cities as couples emerged from weeks of government-mandated shutdowns. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Constitutional law expert Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses President Trump unleashing an executive order targeting social media companies like Twitter that have drawn his wrath. Election law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the challenges election officials have with just weeks left to ensure that their states can handle a surge of mai...

Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses “Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, giving up a 14-month fight and pleading guilty to paying $500,000 in bribes to get their daughters into the University of Southern California as phony crew stars. Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School of Business, discusse...

Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses former national security adviser Michael Flynn asking an appeals court to let the Justice Department drop a criminal case against him for lying to the FBI rather than waiting for a lower-court judge to decide. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual Property Litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, discusses the first trial in federal court done by video and his role as the plaintiff’s counsel. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter, discusses the Supreme Court blocking House Democrats for now from getting access to confidential materials from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, granting a request from President Donald Trump’s administration. Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses how Johnson & Johnson’s decision to...

Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses the Justice Department drafting a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google, accusing the internet giant of violating antitrust laws. Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses the highs and lows of the Supreme Court’s historic oral argument session broadcast live. They speak to host June Grasso.  See omnystudio.com/listener...

Edward Foley, Director of the Election Law Program at the Moritz College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court justices seeming reluctant to give members of the Electoral College the right to vote as they please. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.