Legal Docket
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Legal Docket
Learn what you wish you already knew about our nation’s highest court. Hear how Supreme Court decisions directly affect you and your community. Meet the people behind the cases who are seeking to uphold freedom. Hosts and lawyers Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough take you to the scene, bringing the law...
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Mayhem at the Marathon
The Supreme Court considers questions of mitigating evidence and jury bias arising from the trial of one of the Boston Marathon bombers.
Bitter Pills
The federal government and two pain management physicians argue about the meaning of the text in the Controlled Substances Act.
Overruling Roe - Part II
Abortion proponents and pro-life advocates battle it out at the Supreme Court over Mississippi’s law that protects unborn life after 15 weeks’ gestati...
Overruling Roe - Part I
A new Mississippi law protects unborn life after 15 weeks’ gestation. The only abortion provider in the state sued, arguing the law is a direct affron...
Freedom Fighter
Virginia Prodan worked as a lawyer in communist Romania under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. He sent a man to assassinate her. Instead, Prodan witnessed...
Drawing the Line
A famous courtroom artist tells the little-known aspects of his craft, beyond the colorful sketches that you can see.
Level Praying Field
A football coach sued his school district when the school prohibited him from offering a prayer on the field after games.
Jumping the Gun
A man concerned for his own safety sought a license to carry a gun outside his home. But a New York judge said no to him while other judges said yes t...
Taco ‘Bout Contracts
A former Taco Bell employee sued her employer for unpaid wages. She wants to keep her battle in court, but the employer wants to force arbitration.
Death Row Prayer
A man on death row wants his pastor with him in the execution chamber, but he had to sue the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to get it.
Season 3: Trailer
Abortion, guns, religion—our third season covers it all. Get personal with a Supreme Court artist. Understand how the latest decisions from our nation...
Legal Docket - United States v. Arthrex: S2.E10
Patent law and administrative law intersect in this case that raises a question about the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Legal Docket - Supreme Court Preview: S2.E9
The new 2021-2022 term of the US Supreme Court is upon us. Today, you’ll hear previews of several cases the justices will decide this term. Those incl...
Legal Docket - Americans for Prosperity v Bonta : S2.E8
When the attorney general of California sought confidential information about charitable donors, charities on the left and the right fought back.
Legal Docket: Nestlé v Doe - S2.E7
Former child slaves on West African cocoa farms sue U.S. chocolate companies. The case examines whether the Alien Tort Statute covers those claims.
Legal Docket: Mahanoy Area School District v Levy - S2.E6
A cheerleader’s vulgar post on social media lands her in trouble with the school, but judicial precedent from the 1960s and the First Amendment protec...
Legal Docket: Behind the Scenes - Clerks and Marshal's Aides - S2.E5
Find out what it's like to work as a law clerk for a Supreme Court justice. In this episode, hosts Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough talk with five law cl...
Legal Docket: US v Cooley - S2.E4
Indian tribes are considered a nation within a nation. U.S. v Cooley looks at how much authority a tribe's law enforcement has to investigate crimes b...
Legal Docket: Fulton v Philadelphia - S2.E3
Religious Liberty and emerging LGBT rights clash when the city of Philadelphia excludes Catholic Social Services from placing children with foster fam...
Legal Docket: Jones v Mississippi - S2.E2
Hosts Jenny Rough and Mary Reichard analyze an 8th Amendment case, cruel and unusual punishment. In 2005, Brett Jones killed his grandfather. He was 1...
Legal Docket: Brownback v King - S2.E1
Hosts Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough analyze a case of simple facts and complicated law. In 2014, college student James King is beaten up by FBI agents...
Legal Docket, Bonus Episode: Mandatory Vaccine Laws
The Supreme Court first considered the constitutionality of mandatory vaccine laws in Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905). In this episode, hosts Mary Re...
Episode 10: A Supreme Court Term Preview
Hosts Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough preview a handful of cases from the upcoming Supreme Court term: including legal questions over copyright, Catholi...
Episode 9: Admitting Privileges
Hosts Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough consider abortion law, incrementalism, and the surprising plurality opinion from the Supreme Court in June Medical...
Episode 8: Reasonable Searches
Hosts Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough consider Kansas v. Glover, a case about a routine traffic stop. In 2016, a Kansas sheriff ran the plates of a truc...
Episode 7: Bivens Remedy
Hosts Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough analyze Hernández v. Mesa, a case about a cross-border shooting. In 2010 a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and kille...
Episode 6: Sex Discrimination
Hosts Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough consider Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. EEOC, a case that had to decide whether the term "sex" in Title VII should...
Episode 5: The Insanity Defense
Hosts Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough break down Kahler v. Kansas, a case that considers limits on the insanity defense. This episode features insightfu...
Episode 4: Religious Education Discrimination
In 2018, the state of Montana shut down a scholarship program after it discovered parents were using the money to send children to religious schools....
Episode 3: The Clean Water Act
Hosts Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough follow waste water from the Supreme Court building to the Potomac River as they consider how County of Maui v. Haw...
Episode 2: Age discrimination
Hosts Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough explore oral argument and the eventual ruling in Babb v. Wilkie,an age discrimination case the Supreme Court decid...
Legal Docket, Episode 1: Primer
Hosts and lawyers Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough take us behind the scenes of the Supreme Court as they talk with two advocates who have argued cases b...