Bloomberg Law

Mechele Dickerson, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and an early researcher on race and bankruptcy, discusses why Black debtors file for bankruptcy disproportionately more than other racial groups, yet get less permanent relief. Employment law expert Anthony Oncidi, a partner at Proskauer Rose, discusses what a Biden Administration could mean for employers and employees. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the Justice Department's unusual move to take over the defense of President Trump in a defamation suit tied to a rape claim. Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses why state prosecutors dropped the murder indictment against Curtis Flowers, a Black man tried six times in Mississippi for a quadruple murder. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Campaign finance law expert Meredith McGehee, the executive director of Issue One, which advocates for stronger campaign finance laws, discusses the allegations that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pressured his former employees to donate money to Republican political candidates and then reimbursed them using company money. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses a federal judge ordering the U.S. Census Bureau to stop following a plan that would have it winding down operations in order to finish the 2020 census at the end of September. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Employment law expert Anthony Oncidi, a partner at Proskauer Rose, discusses an Ohio Supreme Court ruling that employees required to take an employer-watched urine test, didn't have a claim for invasion of privacy. Erin Mulvaney, Bloomberg Law Senior Reporter, discusses employees filing suits over denial of Covid-19 leaves. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Neil Kinkopf, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses the third ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals over the House of Representatives lawsuit seeking to subpoena former White House Counsel Don McGahn. Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the Vermont Law School, discusses California's 100th lawsuit against the Trump administration. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the lawsuit against McDonald's by more than 50 Black former franchisees who say they were driven out of business after being pushed by the company to set up shop in crime-ridden areas. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the continuing legal saga of former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, after a federal appeals court declined to order the dismissal of the case against him. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark Ramseyer, a professor at Harvard Law School, discusses the fight against extradition to Japan of two American men who are wanted there on charges that they smuggled former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of the country in a box last year in his daring escape. Bloomberg's David McLaughlin discusses the decision by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. to fight charges by the U.S. of conspiring with competitors to raise prices for generic drugs. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the Justice Department asking the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling prohibiting President Donald Trump from blocking users from his personal Twitter account. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Elections law expert Nathaniel Persily, a professor at Stanford Law School, discusses the third multistate lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over major changes to postal service operations that the states fear will hinder mail-in voting during the November election. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

James Dempsey, executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses TikTok filing a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from enacting a ban on the fast-growing social media network, as it negotiates a sale of its U.S. assets. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.