Bloomberg Law

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 privacy information.

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 omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

Bloomberg News Legal reporter Patricia Hurtado discusses the sex-trafficking charges against fund manager Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein wants a federal judge to find that the charges against him unsealed in New York are pre-empted by a controversial plea deal the financier struck with prosecutors in Florida more than a decade ago. She speaks to Bloomberg's June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Claudy Op den Kamp, Senior Lecturer in Film at the Faculty Member Centre for the Intellectual Property Policy & Management, at Bournemouth University, discusses her book "A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects." She speaks with Bloomberg's June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew Harris, Bloomberg News Legal Reporter, discusses how the Justice Department is exploring ways to include a citizenship question onthe U.S. census as President Donald Trump vows to fight on after the Supreme Court put the plan on hold. He speaks with host June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.