In this the 42nd Episode of The Law Is My Ass, Sid and Joe round up the Supreme Court's week, the new developments in the Travel Ban Litigation at the Ninth Circuit, and interview mediator extraordinaire Cathy Yanni about mediation. Along the way, they answer some questions:
- Is standard of review interesting? (Hint: No, but it's important)
- Is travel ban 2.0 moot? (Hint: it's now officially the mootest)
- Does the FBI protect its informants from murder (Hint: the dead ones don't think so)
- Can climate forecasting software be used to do DNA matching? (Hint: ProPublica has its doubts)
- Did the Senate sell us all out to the big banks last week? (Hint: that's an unqualified "yes")
- Does Betsy DeVos hate disabled children? (Hint: signs point to yes)
- Is the Mueller investigation producing some fruit? (Hint: late summer melons, perhaps)
- Is mediation good or bad? (Hint: on balance, good)
All that and a great listener question about corporate First Amendment rights in the post-Hobby Lobby era! Give it a listen, and keep it legal!™