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Edward Morrison, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses how the coronavirus is threatening to destroy businesses large and small, and that’s got bankruptcy lawyers’ phones ringing off the hook, but what are the limitations of the bankruptcy laws. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School discusses why liberal leaning advocacy and health groups are urging senators to oppose confirming Cory Wilson, the latest Trump pick for one of the most conservative federal appellate courts on grounds that he’d try to undermine Obamacare. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at Vermont Law School, discusses the Trump administration’s rollback of mileage standards, gutting tougher Obama-era standards that were the federal government’s single most forceful initiative against climate-changing fossil fuel emissions. He speaks to host June Grasso See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As President Trump vacillates between threatening to countermand the measures states have taken to contain the coronavirus, and threatening to issue a nationwide stay-at-home order, the question arises: does the President have the power to override a governor’s orders. Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School discusses the issue with host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/l...

Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the invasions into privacy and civil liberties as governments across the world try to fight the pandemic by tracking their citizen’s mobile phones. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The coronavirus is presenting many unique legal problems. Host June Grasso talks to Bloomberg Legal Reporter Erik Larson about the inventive ways estate lawyers are executing wills, to Bloomberg Law Reporter Malathi Nayak about the steps state Attorneys General are taking to combat price gouging and to Bloomberg Law Reporter Madison Alder about how the courts are handling the epidemic. See omnystu...

Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law editor, discusses the Supreme Court’s decision upholding a Kansas law which effectively bars a defendant from asserting an insanity defense. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the implications of sales of stock by senators briefed in January on the coronavirus threat. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Terence Ross, a partner at Katten, Muchin, Rosenman discusses a judge throwing out a $2.8 million jury verdict against Katy Perry, ruling that Perry’s hit "Dark Horse" was not a rip off of a Christian rapper’s song, in a victory for Perry and the music industry. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Did a fearful jury issue a sham verdict in less than 8 hours because the jurors were afraid to deliberate during the coronavirus pandemic? David Voreacos, Bloomberg Projects Reporter discusses the defense claim with host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers, a lecturer at Columbia Law School, discusses Harvey Weinstein’s sentence to 23 years in prison for sexual assault, a sentence so harsh it drew audible gasps in the courtroom when the judge announced it. She speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual property litigator, Terrence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, discusses the en banc decision by 11 judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, that Led Zeppelin did not steal part of its 1971 classic "Stairway to Heaven." He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling, bolstering the power of states to prosecute undocumented immigrants and other immigration cases the court heard this week. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former federal prosecutor, Peter Henning, a professor at Wayne State University Law School, discusses the Supreme Court throwing out two lawsuits by families of Mexican teenagers who were fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents in cross-border shootings in 2010 and 2012. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Jeffrey, Bloomberg News Legal Editor, discusses the lawsuits that have already been filed because of the coronavirus and those that may be filed due to disrupted supply chains, forced quarantines and other effects of the virus. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses Chief Justice John Roberts extraordinary rebuke of Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer for making “threatening” statements about two justices during an abortion-rights rally outside the court. He speaks to host June Grasso.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steve Sanders, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law, discusses oral arguments in the Supreme Court’s first abortion case in four years, with Chief Justice John Roberts sending few clues about how he will cast his pivotal vote. He speaks to host June Grasso.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Coffee, a professor at Columbia Law School, discuses two cases the Supreme Court heard this week on whether to limit the powers of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School, discusses President Trump calling on Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to recuse themselves from future cases involving him, after Sotomayor wrote in a dissent that the Trump administration has been seeking emergency stays in an unprecedented number of cases, a claim supported by the numbers. He speaks...

Bloomberg Law Supreme Court reporter, Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, discusses the second half of the Supreme Court’s current term which will be chock-full of high-profile arguments and blockbuster opinions in controversial cases. She speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at Vermont Law School, discusses oral arguments in which a majority of Supreme Court justices seemed supportive of a crucial permit for the planned $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which will cross under the Appalachian Trail. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brad Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses Roger Stone’s push to get a new trial based on claims of jury bias. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the Supreme Court accepting a major new religious-rights case, agreeing to decide whether Catholic Social Services can be excluded from Philadelphia’s foster-care system because the group won’t place children with same-sex couples. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steven Wise, attorney and founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project, discusses Judge Alison Tuitt’s dismissal of the petition to get Happy the Elephant transferred from her exhibit at the Bronx Zoo, isolated from other elephants, to an elephant sanctuary. The judge did find that Happy was an intelligent autonomous being, "an extraordinary animal with complex cognitive abilities." He speaks to host Ju...

Corey Stern, a partner at Levy Konigsberg, discusses Harvey Weinstein’s conviction on charges of rape and a criminal sexual act, more than two years after allegations against the former Hollywood power broker sparked the #MeToo movement. He speaks to host June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.