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Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Lab Brief,

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Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news, and Today, Bloomberg Law

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Speaker 1: host Doing Grosso and Greg Sture discuss a courtroom dispute

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Speaker 1: between Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Samuel Alito

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Speaker 1: over past decisions concerning alleged victims of police violence. They

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Speaker 1: speak with William Bowe to professor at the University of

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Speaker 1: Chicago School of Law. Can you just briefly describe the incidents,

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Speaker 1: what what has agreed upon, and what what might be

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Speaker 1: in dispute? Uh So, the so the big fight between

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Speaker 1: Justice Sdemor and Justice Alito is uh is about sort

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Speaker 1: of how the Spring Court has been treating cases of

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Speaker 1: polices to force a police misconduct, which they call qualified

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Speaker 1: immunity cases to defense that arises news cases and just

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Speaker 1: to sit on my Earth's concern is that in a

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Speaker 1: series of cases over the past ten fifteen years, the

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Speaker 1: Court has repeatedly reached out and reversed lower courts without briefing,

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Speaker 1: without oral argument. It's called summary reversal when it thinks

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Speaker 1: they've been too quick find liability for the officers. So

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Speaker 1: it's sort of protected officers from from lawsuits, while in

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Speaker 1: her view, it's not doing the same thing when courts

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Speaker 1: make mistakes in the other direction and when people like

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Speaker 1: Mr Salaz Alaman go without a remedy. And she described

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Speaker 1: the facts of the case, it doesn't said that there

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Speaker 1: is a dispute about the facts. There are two sides

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Speaker 1: to the story. And yet the judge granted summary judgment

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Speaker 1: dismissing the case. And you can only do that when

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Speaker 1: there's no genuine dispute as to any material fact. So

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Speaker 1: it seems on its face as if this should have

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Speaker 1: gone before a jury. So that's probably right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: every individual case. Obviously it's a little complicated. So the

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Speaker 1: lower courts thinking was this The police officer said that

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Speaker 1: the reason he shot Mr Salaz Alamon as he was

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Speaker 1: reaching for his waistband and the police office area in

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Speaker 1: the heat of the moment, thought he might have had

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Speaker 1: a gun, and so that was a sort of reasonable,

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Speaker 1: if tragic response at the time. Um. And the one

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Speaker 1: the one sort of puzzle is that the plaintiff never

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Speaker 1: actually sort of affirmatively contradicted that he never under oath

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Speaker 1: said no, no, I wasn't reaching for for my waist.

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Speaker 1: The lower courts really stick sated on. They kept asking,

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Speaker 1: you know, but why why won't he deny that um.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, it's not really clear you should

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Speaker 1: have to deny it, like part of the reason you

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Speaker 1: you have a trials to sortle this out and we

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Speaker 1: can figure all that out of the stand. That's William Boat,

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Speaker 1: a professor at the University of Chicago School of Law,

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Speaker 1: speaking with the Bloomberg Lahost student Grosso and Greg Sture.

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Speaker 1: top legal stories from Bloomberg Law, Greek yogurt maker Chabanni

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Speaker 1: is suing right wing commentator Alex Jones and his infull

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Speaker 1: Wars website over a video linking the company's hiring refugees

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Speaker 1: to an unrelated child rape case in Idaho. The complaint

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Speaker 1: filed in state courts as a video posted earlier this

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Speaker 1: month falsely claims the Chobani Platts opened in was caught

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Speaker 1: importing quote migrant rapists. Jones quickly fired back at the lawsuit.

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Speaker 1: It's about being able to shut down free speech and

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Speaker 1: intimidate people. A Chabani plant employees about a thousand people

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Speaker 1: in Twin Falls, a southern idahotel of about fifty thousand people.

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Speaker 1: More accusations of race bias at Fox News. Eleven current

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Speaker 1: and former employees from the cable channel have now filed

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Speaker 1: a class action race bias lawsuit, accusing the company of

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Speaker 1: turning a blind eye for years to systemic abuse of

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Speaker 1: workers with darker skin in an attempt to cover for

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Speaker 1: the alleged behavior of Bill O'Reilly and others. The company's

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Speaker 1: general counsel and had of human resources both allegedly ignored

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Speaker 1: the complaints about a well connected employee because she quote

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Speaker 1: new too much about O'Reilly and former chief executive Roger Ales.

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