OA142: The Opioid Crisis -- A (Mostly) Non-Partisan Friday

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🗓️ 26 January 2018

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Today's episode features a deep dive into our nation's opioid crisis. First, the guys take a look at a recent bad court thingy filed by Paul Manafort's lawyers in connection with his criminal prosecution. What does it mean? Listen and find out! In the main segment, Andrew and Thomas break down the just-released Senate Subcommittee Report on illegal opioid use in this country and discuss how an obscure 1874 treaty organization affects international drug trafficking. You won't want to miss it! After the main segment, Andrew answers a question from one of our youngest listeners, high school sophmore Brian about a recent free speech case at the University of Alabama. You may be surprised at the answer! Finally, we end with our second of three Middle Earth-themed Thomas Takes the Bar Exam (Question #60) involving lightning, wildfires, an experienced woodsman, and an errant crossbow bolt. Remember that you can play along with #TTTBE by retweeting our episode on Twitter or sharing it on Facebook along with your guess. We'll release the answer on next Tuesday's episode along with our favorite entry! Recent Appearances None! Have us on your show! Show Notes & Links

Manafort's accidentally-included legal memo can be found here.
You can hear Deborah Smith and Zach Law discuss opioids here.
This is the Senate Subcommittee Report on Opioid Interdiction, and this is the text of SB 708.
Finally, here's a link to Papish v. Board of Curators, 410 U.S. 667 (1973), the case we discussed in answering Brian's question.

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0:00.0	I declare bankruptcy!
0:20.0	I congratulate you on your imagination, but this is a court of space law not a theater.
0:26.0	Tax, Mendes, Incendi, and Gloria, Calpam, etc., etc., Memo, Bis, Punitor, Debra, Cutum.
0:36.0	It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal.
0:42.0	How is this a fair trial? Our lawyer is a morty.
0:46.0	It's not fair, you have no rights and he's not a lawyer. We just keep him here because he's fun.
0:50.0	Look at him go.
0:55.0	Welcome to Opening Arguments, the podcast that pairs an inquisitive interviewer with a real-life lawyer.
1:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by the Law Offices of P. Antitoura as LLC for Entertainment Purposees.
1:05.0	It's not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship.
1:09.0	Don't take legal advice from a podcast.
1:13.0	Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 142. I'm your host, Thomas Smith.
1:24.0	That over there is your other host, Andrew Torres, Esquire. How you doing, Andrew?
1:29.0	I'm great, Thomas. Do you have any trivia about the number 142?
1:34.0	I did, people passed that headline around. Some scientists counted the number of something and 42.
1:43.0	Douglas Adams, everybody.
1:47.0	Sorry, this is 142. It's completely meaningless.
1:52.0	Totally different number. I know it's confusion, but there's actually 100 more than that. Nevermind. Falsalarm.
2:01.0	Douglas Adams would appreciate us commemorating him on 140. That would appeal to his sense of the absurd.
2:10.0	If we brought him back to life for that, he would be like, what?
2:15.0	This was not worth that.
2:18.0	I really thought you were going to go for a zombie brain joke.
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