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Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This was the final week of oral arguments of the term and also the final oral arguments for Justice Breyer. Your hosts discuss a kind tribute that the Chief Justice gave to his retiring colleague, new cert grants, and some of this week's high-profile arguments. They also discuss the two decisions of the week and what happens when the court splits 4-4 on a case. GianCarlo then interviews Supreme Court advocate Sarah Harris, and the two talk about her interesting path to the law, which includes years spent studying a clandestine CIA program. Sarah also shares wonderful stories from her clerkships for Judge Sandra Lynch, Judge Laurence Silberman, and Justice Thomas. Finally, with a bunch of railroad cases on the Court's docket, GianCarlo tries to stump Zack with trivia about the Court's most famous (and infamous) train cases.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm John Carlo Canoparo. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Zach Smith. |
| 0:09.0 | And welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, |
| 0:14.3 | what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government. |
| 0:21.1 | Welcome back to another week of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:23.9 | The court concluded its final week of oral arguments for this term |
| 0:27.1 | and ended with Chief Justice John Roberts wishing his departing colleague, |
| 0:31.6 | Justice Stephen Breyer, well on his future endeavors. |
| 0:34.9 | The court also granted cert in a couple of cases and issued opinions this week. |
| 0:39.3 | Zach, talk about orders. |
| 0:41.3 | Any new cases that the court agreed to hear? |
| 0:44.3 | There were. |
| 0:45.3 | There were two. |
| 0:46.3 | First is Reed v. Gortz. |
| 0:48.3 | The question in that case is whether the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 |
| 0:53.3 | claims seeking DNA testing of crime |
| 0:56.4 | scene evidence begins to run at the end of state court litigation denying DNA testing, |
| 1:02.3 | including any appeals, or whether it begins at the moment the state trial court denies DNA testing |
| 1:08.1 | despite any subsequent appeals, a very wonky issue, but a very important one. |
| 1:14.3 | Next is Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Wellery Company. The question there is whether the due process |
| 1:20.7 | clause of the 14th Amendment prohibits a state from requiring a corporation to consent to personal |
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