The 9 Best On The Merits Podcast Episodes
1) Threats Increase, But System to Protect Judges Falters
Data obtained and analyzed by Bloomberg Law show that federal judges and their families are facing an increasing number of violent threats. But the federal agency charged with keeping judges safe does...Show More
2) Elon Musk's $56 Billion Bad Year in Delaware Court
Elon Musk's six-year saga defending his $56 billion Tesla Inc. pay package in the Delaware Chancery Court has captivated the state's tight-knit legal community and the wider world of Musk watchers, in...Show More
3) Musk Can Fume, But He Probably Can't Leave Delaware
Elon Musk was unhappy, to put it mildly, with the ruling last week from a Delaware court that invalidated a $55.8 billion pay package he received from Tesla, his electric car company. Shortly afterwar...Show More
4) Investors' Timeline to Sue Grows in New Opioid Ruling
Investors may have a lot more opportunity to sue their boards of directors for mismanagement after a ruling last month in a Delaware opioid case. The ruling from Delaware Chancery Court, the country's...Show More
5) FDA Knows About Toxins in Baby Food But Can't Fix It
The FDA has known for years that baby food can contain alarming amounts of toxic metals, including lead, arsenic, and cadmium. But why has it been slow to act? A team of Bloomberg Law reporters set ou...Show More
FDA Knows About Toxins in Baby Food But Can't Fix It
18:02 | Jan 10th, 2023
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6) On Abortion, Red States Not Waiting for Supreme Court
This summer, the Supreme Court is expected to hand down a ruling in a case called Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. It could significantly alter—or even eliminate altogether—Roe v. Wade an...Show More
7) Women Struggle to Bring Equal Pay Suits to Court
A bill is currently sitting on the desk of Gov. Tate Reeves (R) that would make his state, Mississippi, the 50th and final one to adopt a law mandating equal pay for men and women. However, not all wo...Show More
8) Voter Fraud Prosecution Data Undermines Claims
A team of Bloomberg reporters has been reaching out to elections officials in every state for months to try to get a sense of how often voting fraud actually happens. In all, they found roughly 200 in...Show More
9) 'Corporate Traumas' Are Making Shareholders Lawyer Up
Walmart Inc., The Boeing Co., and Fox Corporation all have watched their boards of directors hauled to court by their own shareholders after headline-grabbing scandals. Such cases of shareholders sui...Show More
10) Chicago Law Dean on AI: You Won't Be Able to Entirely Avoid It
Like most schools worried about academic integrity, the University of Chicago Law School used to discourage its first-year students from using generative AI but now it has crept into that first-year c...Show More