Justice Breyer's Warning

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🗓️ 8 April 2021

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Our hosts start today’s episode by diving into the Supreme Court’s 6-2 opinion in Google v. Oracle, a multibillion dollar copyright case involving whether Google unlawfully used Oracle’s programming code when the tech titan created its Android operating system. Also on today’s podcast, Sarah and David chat about Justice Stephen Breyer’s Scalia Lecture, misdemeanor prosecutions, a new study on religious liberty’s winning streak on the Roberts Court, and a Native American adoption law case. Show Notes: -Google v. Oracle -Justice Breyer’s Scalia lecture. -Misdemeanor prosecution explainer by Alex Tabarrok and “16 theories for why crime plummeted in the US” by Dara Lind and German Lopez in Vox. -“An Extraordinary Winning Streak for Religion at the Supreme Court” by Adam Liptak in the New York Times and “The Roberts Court and the Transformation of Constitutional Protections for Religion: A Statistical Portrait” by Lee Epstein and Eric A. Posner in the Supreme Court Review. -Native American adoption law case. -Take the next 30-days to try a Dispatch membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Advisory Opinions podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isker. And we're
0:09.6	going to cover a ton of stuff today. It's hard to believe Sarah that just three days ago,
0:16.4	we were 30 minutes before the podcast and struggling for topics.
0:21.8	And here we are once again with a plethora, a wealth of things to talk about. So here's
0:28.7	what we're going to do. We're going to humbly approach you listeners and say we should have
0:34.6	talked about the Google Oracle case more than we did on Monday. And so Sarah is going to correct
0:41.9	our mistake. But we're not going to talk about it for long. Why? Because Justice Breyer gave a
0:47.6	speech where he said some interesting things we need to talk about. There is a, there are
0:52.4	fascinating developments in the world of crime and prosecutions and crime rates that they're
1:01.6	very interesting that I think are worth exploring. We're also going to talk about a new study about
1:07.6	religious liberty that Sarah, I'm just going to humbly say proves I'm right. And then we're going
1:14.4	to end up with a discussion of equal protection and adoption. So that's a lot. So start off,
1:24.3	start us off Sarah, what should we have talked about when it comes to Google and Oracle?
1:30.9	So on Tuesday afternoon, I got a text message from my cousin and it said, finally heard about an
1:37.9	interesting Supreme Court decision related to my light of work. I turned on advisory opinions to
1:42.6	get the full scoop. And what do I get? Oh, no, David. This was white embarrassing.
1:51.5	So I need to impress my cousin. Here we go. We mentioned on Monday, this was a six to decision
1:59.6	bear it didn't take part. She wasn't on the court yet when it was argued. This was the last of
2:04.4	the October cases, as I mentioned for court bingo. Look, this is a copyright case, but it's a case
2:16.9	that kind of preserves the status quo, which is why we didn't talk about it much. If they had ruled
2:22.3	for Oracle instead of Google, this would have been the hugeest biggest deal in corporate America ever.
2:28.9	And I don't know, buildings would be burning. There'd be riots in the streets, renting of clothes,
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