Bloomberg Law

Bloomberg 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Audrey 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Elections 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intellectual 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

First 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeffrey 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ryan 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.