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Intellectual property attorney Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, discusses a jury’s decision that Katy Pery, her collaborators and her record label owe the writers of a Christian rap song $2.78 million for copying their song in her hit, "Dark Horse." He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg News Supreme Court reporter Greg Stohr discusses a possible second amendment showdown as the Supreme Court is set to decide this month whether to hear a challenge to New York City rules that sharply limited where licensed handguns could be taken while locked and unloaded. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trump Conservative Picks Reshape Court For DecadesUniversity of Richmond School of Law Professor Carl Tobias discusses the 13 new federal judges confirmed to the bench by the Senate before they left for August recess, bringing the total number of Trump appointees to 144, allowing President Trump to reshape the court with conservatives for decades to come. He speaks to Bloomberg's June Grasso. See...

Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland and Knight and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation discusses a D.C. ruling that struck down President Trump’s attempt last year to limit asylum only to people who cross into the United States at official entry points along the southern border. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com...

Mississippi hasn’t elected a black official statewide in more than 130 years. Rick Pildes, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses a lawsuit targeting Mississippi’s 1890 constitution as expressly crafted to stop African Americans from getting elected. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Legal Editor, discusses how America’s Secret Drug War unfolded over the struggle to curb synthetic drugs and how two film producers could spend the rest of their lives in prison for selling synthetic drugs they swear were legal. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steve Sanders, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law discusses Arizona’s lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to force the Sackler family, which owns OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma, to return billions of dollars they allegedly siphoned from the company. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Law Supreme Court reporter Kimberly Robinson discusses the end of the first Supreme Court term with its strengthened conservative majority. Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding votes in two 5-4 cases, handing high-profile wins to both conservatives and liberals. She speaks with Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, discusses why a divided Supreme Court cleared President Trump’s administration to start using disputed Pentagon funds to construct more than 100 miles of fencing along the Mexican border. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Capital defense attorney Madeline Cohen who represents several prisoners on federal death row discusses the federal government’s decision to resume executions in December after a 16-year moratorium. She speaks with Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harry First, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s new investigation into whether Facebook Inc. violated antitrust laws, right after Facebook agree to pay a record $5 billion fine for privacy violations. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr discusses the federal approval of T-Mobile’s proposed purchase of Sprint. He speaks with Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses why Texas won’t have to get federal approval before making changes to its voter maps under a new ruling by a federal appeals court, deespite findings of intentional discrimination. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bob Mintz, a former federal prosecutor and partner at McCarter & English discusses Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited testimony on the conclusions of the Mueller report. He speaks to Bloomberg's June Grasso and Amy Morris. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cato Institute Immigration Policy Analyst David Bier discusses the Trump administration's effort to crack down on illegal immigration with a new fast track deportation process that would bypass immigration judges and remove immigrants in as quickly as a day. He speaks with Bloomberg's June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Timothy Jost, a professor at Washington and Lee School of Law, discusses how a ruling by a federal judge that the Trump administration can expand the sale of short-term health insurance policies not meeting the standards of the Affordable Care Act, helps President Trump in his plan to undo Obamacare. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Spencer Waller, a professor at Loyola University of Chicago, discusses the Justice Department urging a federal appeals court to put on hold a judge’s order that would force Qualcomm Inc, to change how it licenses its patents, putting the Trump Administration on the opposite side of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...

Robert Mintz, former federal prosecutor and a partner at McCarter & English, discusses a federal judge’s decision to deny bail to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier accused of child sex trafficking, finding that Epstein poses a danger to the community. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst for Anti-trust Litigation Jennifer Rie discusses the testimony this week from the four biggest US tech firms, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple as they defended themselves against a range of concerns from lawmakers at a House Antitrust subcommittee hearing. She speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

South Texas College of Law Professor Josh Blackman discusses the record for the federal government’s lawyers in the past Supreme Court term. The Solicitor General’s office posted a better record than last term in cases in which it was a party to—but it still barely passed the 50-50 mark, winning twelve cases and losing ten. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

Leon Fresco, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Immigration Litigation at the Department of Justice discusses President Donald Trump’s move to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants who cross the U.S. southern border. He speaks with Blooomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steven Schwinn, a professor at the John Marshall Law School, discusses the skeptical response of two of three federal judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to President Trump’s attempt to keep Congress’s hands off his financial records. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wayne State University Law School Professor Peter Henning discusses possible settlement costs for lawsuits against Bayer claiming the embattled German company’s weedkiller Roundup causes cancer and the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into whether Johnson & Johnson lied to the public about the possible cancer risks of its talcum powder. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omny...

Steve Sanders, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law, discusses why a federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit by the attorneys general of Maryland and Washington D.C., accusing President Trump of illegally profiting from his Washington hotel. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey discusses the fate of Obamacare in the courts and why Massachusetts is one of the states defending the law in federal court. She speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.