The Floodgate Opens
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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4.5 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, GianCarlo and Amy discuss the dueling opinions in the case denying emergency relief to churches challenging California's Covid-19 restrictions. They also breakdown the five opinions the Court issued this week, which cover ERISA standing, foreign arbitral awards, the Puerto Rico Oversight Board, successive habeas petitions, and appellate review in the context of the Convention Against Torture. What a week! Amy also interviews former C.J. Rehnquist clerk and superstar securities lawyer, Matthew Martens, and tries to stump him with Rehnquist related trivia. Is she successful? Tune in to find out!
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Amy Swearer. |
| 0:06.9 | And I'm John Carlo Conoparo. |
| 0:08.5 | And welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to another episode of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:23.9 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:26.5 | So, John Carlo. |
| 0:28.9 | That's me. |
| 0:30.0 | Do you remember how last week we were all doom and gloom? |
| 0:34.8 | Woe is us. |
| 0:36.1 | Whatever will we talk about. |
| 0:38.6 | Let's talk about sports ball. |
| 0:40.8 | Do you remember that? |
| 0:41.7 | You know, I remember it slightly differently. |
| 0:43.6 | I think we covered quite a lot of stuff. |
| 0:46.2 | We did. |
| 0:46.9 | We did. |
| 0:47.3 | But I would just like the record to reflect that when we jokingly begged for a change of pace, we were talking about the SCOTUS news |
| 0:57.9 | cycle in particular, not the news cycle generally. So listeners do not blame us for the rest of the |
| 1:06.9 | current news cycle. That one's not on us. We wanted to talk about opinions. |
| 1:11.7 | Opinions, that's all we wanted, which we got today. |
| 1:14.9 | We did, in fact, the court really kicked things up a notch this week, |
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