Term Talk

Criminal Law. Statutory Interpretation. Experts discuss the Court’s interpretation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as applied to January 6 defendants in Fischer v. United States, and whether the amended federal bribery statute continues to criminalize gratuities in Snyder v. United States.

Participants. Laurie Levenson, Professor, Loyola Law School; Evan Lee, Emeritus Professor, UC Law, San Francisco; and Francesca Williams, Executive Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Criminal Law. Statutory Interpretation. Experts discuss the Court’s interpretation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as applied to January 6 defendants in Fischer v. United States, and whether the amended federal bribery statute continues to criminalize gratuities in Snyder v. United States.

Participants. Laurie Levenson, Professor, Loyola Law School; Evan Lee, Emeritus Professor, UC Law, San Francisco; and Francesca Williams, Executive Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Voting. Redistricting. Experts discuss how courts should determine if race or party affiliation predominates in a legislature’s redistricting in Alexander v. South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, and the uncertainty surrounding application of the Purcell principle in Robinson v. Callais.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; Evan Lee, Emeritus Professor, University of California Law, San Francisco; and Hamid Khan, Judicial Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Voting. Redistricting. Experts discuss how courts should determine if race or party affiliation predominates in a legislature’s redistricting in Alexander v. South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, and the uncertainty surrounding application of the Purcell principle in Robinson v. Callais.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; Evan Lee, Emeritus Professor, University of California Law, San Francisco; and Hamid Khan, Judicial Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Second Amendment. National Firearms Act. Experts discuss the Court’s continued development of the history and tradition standard of analysis in the context of the Second Amendment, and how the abandonment of the Chevron Doctrine impacted the interpretation of the National Firearms Act.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; Tara Grove, Vinson and Elkins Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin, School of Law; and Hamid Khan, Judicial and Legal Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

Second Amendment. National Firearms Act. Experts discuss the Court’s continued development of the history and tradition standard of analysis in the context of the Second Amendment, and how the abandonment of the Chevron Doctrine impacted the interpretation of the National Firearms Act.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; Tara Grove, Vinson and Elkins Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin, School of Law; and Hamid Khan, Judicial and Legal Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center.

First Amendment. Government Speech. Experts analyze whether government speech infringed on others' speech rights, in Murthy v. Missouri, and the government’s unconstitutional use of retaliation to suppress disfavored speech in National Rifle Association v. Vullo.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Michael McConnell, former Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; and Beth Wiggins, Director of Research at the Federal Judicial Center.

First Amendment. Government Speech. Experts analyze whether government speech infringed on others' speech rights, in Murthy v. Missouri, and the government’s unconstitutional use of retaliation to suppress disfavored speech in National Rifle Association v. Vullo.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Michael McConnell, former Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; and Beth Wiggins, Director of Research at the Federal Judicial Center.

First Amendment. Social Media. Experts analyze the Court’s varied opinions on whether social media platform content moderation is speech protected by the First Amendment in Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, and when posts to personal social media accounts by government officials becomes government speech in Lindke v. Freed.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Michael McConnell, former Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; and Beth Wiggins, Director of Research at the Federal Judicial Center.

First Amendment. Social Media. Experts analyze the Court’s varied opinions on whether social media platform content moderation is speech protected by the First Amendment in Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, and when posts to personal social media accounts by government officials becomes government speech in Lindke v. Freed.

Participants. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Michael McConnell, former Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, and Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; and Beth Wiggins, Director of Research at the Federal Judicial Center.