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Sinopse
Host June Grasso speaks with prominent attorneys and legal scholars, analyzing major legal issues and cases in the news. The show examines all aspects of the legal profession, from intellectual property to criminal law, from bankruptcy to securities law, drawing on the deep research tools of BloombergLaw.com. Reporters from Bloomberg's Washington, D.C. bureau are prominently featured as they offer analysis of policy and legal issues.
Episódios
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Can Police Enter a Home to Check on Safety?
26/03/2021 Duração: 25minFormer federal prosecutor George Newhouse of Richards Carrington, discusses Supreme Court arguments over whether police can enter a home without a warrant in order to check on the safety or health of the residents. Bethany Berger, a professor at the University of Connecticut Law School, discusses Supreme Court arguments in a case that pits union rights against property rights. June Grasso hosts.
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Why Anti-Asian Hate Crime Is Not Being Charged Enough
25/03/2021 Duração: 31minJack McDevitt, a Professor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and Director of the Institute on Race and Justice, discusses recent Anti-Asian hate crimes and why prosecutors are reluctant to charge hate crimes. Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses the Supreme Court considering questions of law and order on Indian reservations. June Grasso hosts.
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Partisan Shift in En Banc Appeals Courts Since Trump
24/03/2021 Duração: 18minNeal Devins, a Professor at William & Mary Law School, discusses his study with Professor Allison Ore Larson, "Weaponizing En Banc," which shows a dramatic spike in partisan splits and partisan reversals when appeals courts sit en banc, since the Trump presidency. June Grasso hosts.
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No Right to Pray on the 50-Yard Line for Coach
22/03/2021 Duração: 25minRick Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses a 9th Circuit decision that rejects the claims of a high school football coach that he had the right to pray at the 50-yard line immediately after his team’s games. Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law Supreme Court Reporter, discusses how the Biden administration is on track to reverse the government’s position in more cases before the Supreme Court than the Trump administration did during the first full high court term of Trump’s presidency. June Grasso hosts.
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Massive Camera Hack Shows Big Brother Is Watching
19/03/2021 Duração: 29minReena Bajowala, a partner at Ice Miller, discusses the legal implications of the recent hack into a massive collection of security camera video at security camera startup Verkada Inc. Former federal prosecutor Michael Zeldin discusses the controversial statute federal prosecutors are using to charge about 60 of the rioters at the January 6th Capitol riots. June Grasso hosts.
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Why the IRS Hates These Green Land Tax Breaks
19/03/2021 Duração: 28minDavid Voreacos, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, and Tim Lindstrom, a Virginia attorney, discuss the IRS crackdown on syndicated conservation easements which the wealthy use to get tax breaks. Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses Supreme Court arguments later this month on warrantless searches. June Grasso hosts.
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Will Jury Hear About George Floyd's Prior Arrest?
19/03/2021 Duração: 28minFormer public defender Christa Groshek, managing attorney of Groshek Law in Minneapolis, discusses jury selection in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer in the death of George Floyd. Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, discusses why educated men are finding more degrees don't bring more jobs. Erin Mulvaney, Senior Legal Reporter at Bloomberg Law, discusses five of six women dropping their lawsuit over Jones Day's so called "black box." June Grasso hosts.
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Mob Lawyer and Giuliani Protege on Trump Defense Team
17/03/2021 Duração: 32minGreg Farrell, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the lawyers representing Donald Trump in two separate New York investigations which could lead to a historic prosecution of the former president. Ellen Gilmer, Senior Legal Reporter for Bloomberg Law, discusses the environmental cases coming up at the Supreme Court this term. June Grasso hosts.
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Do You Really Own that Digital Music or eBook?
15/03/2021 Duração: 20minFrom digital downloads to genetic data, we don't always own the things we think we do. A new book explores the hidden rules of ownership that governments and businesses use to decide who gets what. Host June Grasso talks to Professor Michael Heller of Columbia Law School, one of the co-authors of "MINE! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives."
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Workers Can Refuse the J&J Shot For Religious Reasons
11/03/2021 Duração: 30minBloomberg Law Reporter Robert Iafolla discusses whether workers can refuse to take Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine on religious grounds because of its use of cloned fetal cells to make the vaccine. Environmental law professor, Pat Parenteau of the Vermont Law School, discusses the 12 Republican states suing the Biden administration over its climate agenda in a case centering on the ‘social cost’ of greenhouse gases. June Grasso hosts.
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Why Manhattan DA's Race Is Not About Law & Order
11/03/2021 Duração: 33minFormer federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses jury selection in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged in the murder of George Floyd. Bloomberg Legal Reporter Patricia Hurtado discusses the race to become the next Manhattan district attorney and why the candidates are talking about which crimes they won't prosecute, rather than those they will. June Grasso hosts.
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Chief Justice's First Solo High Court Dissent
10/03/2021 Duração: 15minAudrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass Berry & Sims, discusses the Supreme Court reviving a campus free speech case even though the Georgia college already gave into student demands over the expression of Christian views, and the first solo dissent by the Chief Justice in his 16 years on the bench. June Grasso hosts.
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Supreme Court May Weaken Voting Rights Act
09/03/2021 Duração: 25minElections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses oral arguments where the Supreme Court's conservative justices indicated they would uphold the two Arizona voting restrictions at issue in the case. Federal judiciary expert Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses how President Joe Biden can now flip the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. June Grasso hosts.
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Stephen King Copyright Victory and Patent Death Squad
06/03/2021 Duração: 31minIntellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses Stephen King's victory in a copyright infringement lawsuit over his "Dark Tower" series. Susan Decker, Bloomberg News Patent Reporter, discusses the Supreme Court questioning the power of the so-called Patent Death Squad. June Grasso hosts.
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Can School Discipline Student for Profane Snapchat?
05/03/2021 Duração: 30minFirst amendment law expert Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses a case before the Supreme Court over whether school officials are barred from disciplining students for their off-campus speech. Constitutional law professor Howard Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses Supreme Court cases exploring the power of administrative agencies, a topic of renewed interest among the expanded majority of conservative justices. June Grasso hosts.
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Role Reversal as Ghosn's Smugglers Taken Back to Japan
04/03/2021 Duração: 32minDavid Yaffe-Bellany, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the extradition to Japan of the father and son accused of engineering the daring escape of Carlos Ghosn from Japan. Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law Reporter discusses the push to have President Biden nominate judges who are public defenders or civil rights lawyers. June Grasso hosts.
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Police Reform in the Biden Administration
03/03/2021 Duração: 32minJeffrey Fagan, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the immigration challenges facing the Biden administration. June Grasso hosts.
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Water War Between Florida and Georgia at High Court
01/03/2021 Duração: 24minRyan Rowberry, a professor at Georgia State University College of Law, discusses the bitter dispute that oystermen in Florida and farmers in Georgia have been locked in for decades ...a battle that is now at the Supreme Court. Erin Mulvaney, Senior Legal Reporter at Bloomberg Law, discusses big grocery store chains wielding largely untested legal arguments to fight hazard pay hikes related to Covid-19. June Grasso hosts.
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Can Police Chase You Into Your Home for Minor Crimes?
27/02/2021 Duração: 20minFormer federal prosecutor Michael Zeldin discusses Supreme Court justices questioning whether the distinction between felonies and misdemeanors should matter for officers pursuing suspects into homes without warrants. Bloomberg Law Editor Jordan Rubin discusses a potential history-making case to test DNA that could turn on a single word. June Grasso hosts.
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Supreme Court Slams the Door on Trump
27/02/2021 Duração: 23minGreg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter, discusses the Supreme Court turning away former President Trump on disclosure of his taxes and rejecting eight appeals to overturn the results of the presidential election. Ellen Gilmer, Senior Legal Reporter for Bloomberg Law, discusses whether consumers can sue when the power goes out. June Grasso hosts.