"Learned in the Law"
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
4.5 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The Court is back from its break, adding new cases to its docket, and hearing oral arguments. In this episode, GianCarlo previews the newly granted cases and explains the oral arguments in a rare professional ethics case, and Zack discusses the oral arguments in a case that will decide whether and to what extent Puerto Rico has sovereign immunity. Zack then interviews John Bash, a former clerk to then-Judge Kavanaugh and Justice Scalia and current partner at Quinn Emanuel. Finally, GianCarlo quizzes Zack about the "10th Justice."
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. I'm John Carlo Conoparo. I'm Zach Smith. And welcome to |
| 0:10.0 | SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to, |
| 0:15.6 | and other things related to our favorite branch of government. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome back to another episode of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:28.4 | I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and a very happy new year. |
| 0:30.0 | G.C., how was your break? |
| 0:35.0 | It was great, Zach, but the court is back, and so we are too. |
| 0:36.8 | Indeed, we are. |
| 0:41.2 | G.C., did the court issue any orders of note since our last episode? |
| 0:42.4 | It did. |
| 0:49.2 | Since our last episode, the court granted certiorari in several cases, none of which are what you call high profile. So I'll summarize a few of them briefly right now. |
| 0:52.8 | One of them will decide whether a criminal defendant must be freed if the government brings its prosecution in the wrong venue. |
| 1:00.1 | Another will decide whether a co-criminal defendant's out-of-court confession may be admitted at trial. |
| 1:06.0 | Another will decide whether plaintiffs who allege that accompany securities registrations are misleading have to own shares registered under the allegedly misleading statement. And finally, |
| 1:16.5 | another case will decide whether a law that makes it a crime to encourage or induce illegal |
| 1:21.3 | immigration for commercial or private gain violates the First Amendment. |
| 1:25.7 | The court also began hearing oral arguments again this week. G.C., can you |
| 1:30.4 | tell us about a few of those cases, too? Sure thing. First up this week was In-Ray Grand Jury. |
| 1:36.7 | This is a legal ethics case, which we don't get very many of, and it raises a fundamental issue about |
| 1:42.3 | the attorney-client privilege. As you probably know, |
| 1:45.6 | the attorney-client privilege prohibits the disclosure of communications between a lawyer and his |
| 1:50.2 | client that solicit and give legal advice. It does not, however, protect communications between |
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