Latest Civil law Podcast Episodes
Glass Palaces
Sidebar by Courthouse News - June 25, 2024 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAll aboard, fair listeners, as we take you on a summer tour of the fascinating world of courthouse architecture and how it shapes our justice system. Can courthouse design impact justice? You’ve joined us right in the middle of America’s greatest era of civics construction. Over the last 30 ye...
Shopping for the Perfect Court
Sidebar by Courthouse News - June 04, 2024 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn the past few years, there’s been an explosion of nationwide injunctions coming from single-judge divisions in the federal court system. These judges were handpicked by the people filing these lawsuits. You may have heard of one: U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. With Kacsmaryk’s rulings...
Real Lawsuits of 'Real Housewives'
Sidebar by Courthouse News - May 07, 2024 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsReceipts. Proof. Timeline. Screenshots. What fuels the flames of drama in episodes of Bravo’s hugely successful “Real Housewives” franchise can also come into play off the screen when current and former reality stars duke it out in court against in each other and their former producers and emp...
Copyright Conundrum
Sidebar by Courthouse News - April 16, 2024 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWould you believe us if we told you copyright law is the biggest regulation on free speech in the United States? When you exercise your First Amendment right to paint a picture or write the next great American novel, your speech belongs to you. No one can take it and pass it off as their own. ...
Bitter Pill: Pregnancy and Personhood in a Post-Dobbs America
Sidebar by Courthouse News - March 26, 2024 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe landscape of abortion rights in America is unrecognizable in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Join us for our fourth episode this season as we navigate this tumultuous terrain, dissecting the seismic shifts and looming legal — and pol...
Mean Tweets
Sidebar by Courthouse News - March 05, 2024 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsEditor’s note: This episode is not family friendly due to some colorful language. A long-running feud between eviction lawyers Dennis Block and Danny Bramzon cumulated into a Twitter parody account and a libel lawsuit that made it all the way to a jury trial. In the third episode this season, ...
Breaking News: SCOTUS Ends Trump Ballot Challenges
Sidebar by Courthouse News - March 04, 2024 19:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSurprise, listeners! We’re coming to you, almost live, with a special breaking news mini episode on the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to keep former President Donald Trump on Colorado’s ballot. Our very own Amanda Pampuro and Kelsey Reichmann meticulously dissect the twists and turns of th...
Love Is a Lie
Sidebar by Courthouse News - February 13, 2024 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsLook around, dear listener. Everything is heart-shaped and pink. People are getting ready for a special night with their special someone. In our second episode this season, we take you through the dark alleyways of online dating, where $1.3 billion vanished into the pockets of scammers in ju...
The Case of the Internet Sleuth
Sidebar by Courthouse News - January 23, 2024 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWelcome to season four of Sidebar! We're kicking off our first episode of 2024 by traversing the digital terrain of internet sleuths, those armchair detectives whose keyboards are the new magnifying glasses. Everyone has a hobby. Something to keep them busy, pass the time or unwind after work. ...
Sidebar Season Four - Official Trailer
Sidebar by Courthouse News - January 09, 2024 13:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSeason four of Sidebar, a podcast from Courthouse News, kicks off just around the corner. Join our hosts and reporters as they take you around the nation to break down lawsuits, the law and how they impact you and the life you live. Follow us on Twitter @SidebarCNS and www.courthousenews.com for...
Big Bold Beautiful 2023 Recap
Sidebar by Courthouse News - December 05, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWelcome to our end-of-the-year gala episode of Sidebar. It's hard to divvy out awards for the most important or interesting cases of 2023 when former President Donald Trump has dominated so many of them. This was the year Trump took over Courthouse News, appearing in court as a defendant many t...
Reading, Writing, Religion
Sidebar by Courthouse News - November 14, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsNo institution in American life has a far-reaching and outsized role in communities quite like the public school system. Take a seat, Sidebar listeners, as we dive into the heart of public education and its role in our democracy for our penultimate episode this season. We take you beyond the cl...
I Put a Spell on You
Sidebar by Courthouse News - October 31, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHappy Halloween, all you goblins and ghouls. Prepare yourselves for a real spooky season treat as we traverse the gloomy annals of witch trials. Join us for our 12th episode this season as we dispel myths and shine a light on how and why these judicial proceedings played out across Europe and th...
SCOTUS v. America
Sidebar by Courthouse News - October 03, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAnother year, another five-alarm fire burning before the U.S. Supreme Court. Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News’ Supreme Court reporter and the newest addition to the Sidebar team, joined just in time for this year's preview of the court's upcoming term. The top court in all the land is back at...
Sour Grapes
Sidebar by Courthouse News - September 12, 2023 12:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe love story between Hollywood megastars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie was destined for public fascination from the start as they merged family, philanthropy and a rather unexpected shared passion — wine. So, when they split in 2016, no one saw it coming. What followed was one of the most bitte...
Don't Call Me (Maybe)
Sidebar by Courthouse News - August 22, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWelcome back, listeners, from what we hope was a calm, relaxing break. If it was anything like ours, just when you cozied up with a summer read, you were likely jarred back to reality by a pesky robocall asking about your auto warranty. Receiving unwanted robocalls remains a universal experi...
Give Me a Beat!
Sidebar by Courthouse News - June 27, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsEd Sheeran and reggaeton might have more in common than you know: the artist and the genre have been the subject of battles over whether you can copyright a groove or a rhythm. In our last episode before summer break, we unravel the recent Ed Sheeran copyright trial with our New York City repo...
Greater Idaho Dreamin'
Sidebar by Courthouse News - June 06, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsShould state borders change to create political havens? Come along as we take a road trip through the world of secession as we look at the urban-rural divide and how it shapes these movements. Our first stop in our seventh episode this season? The Greater Idaho movement, a grassroots organizati...
For a Fistful of Dollars
Sidebar by Courthouse News - May 09, 2023 12:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsImagine stashing your hard-earned savings in a safety deposit box, only to find out the FBI has raided the place and your money is gone thanks to the controversial practice of civil forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to seize people's assets with little explanation. That's what happened to...
No Laughing Matter
Sidebar by Courthouse News - April 18, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsA note: this episode contains language that might make you or your nana blush. Pull up a chair as we bring you into the comedy club and beyond. Laughter may be the best medicine, but how does it hold up in court? Over the decades, courts carved out clear First Amendment protections for comics ...
Sober Sundays
Sidebar by Courthouse News - March 28, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBlue laws. They are quirky and annoying outdated restrictions on activities to ensure Sunday is a day of rest and worship. Some go beyond dictating when you can or cannot get a drink, and sometimes they leave you scratching your head wondering, why in the world are they still on the books? In t...
The Legal Jungle of Exotic Pets
Sidebar by Courthouse News - March 07, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, around 60 million American households have pets. That is a ton of good boys and girls out there. But have you ever stopped and wondered about the laws that define pet ownership? Are there specific pets that you can't own where you live? How regulated is the p...
The Enforcers
Sidebar by Courthouse News - February 14, 2023 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHeads up for listeners: this episode contains explicit language. When legal battles come down to damages, most consider the final judgment to show who won the game and by how much. But in a highly specialized area of law, that judgment is just the beginning when the losing team refuses to pay....
Space, the New Wild West
Sidebar by Courthouse News - January 24, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWelcome to season three of Sidebar! You'll want to strap in while we bring you closer to the stars as new technology and more investors bring us deeper into space. Science fiction is rapidly becoming science fact. One thing rarely discussed in your favorite sci-fi movies is the laws that govern ...
Sidebar Season Three - Official Trailer
Sidebar by Courthouse News - January 13, 2023 20:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSeason three of Sidebar, a podcast from Courthouse News, kicks off just around the corner. Join our hosts and reporters as they take you around the nation to break down lawsuits, the law and how they impact you and the life you live. Follow us on Twitter @SidebarCNS and www.courthousenews.com fo...
The Year in Review
Sidebar by Courthouse News - December 13, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhile some aspects of 2022 felt like a return to easier, simpler days, the news coming out of courthouses across the country did not stop. In this episode, we look at the year's most memorable trials: the ones that made us laugh, the ones that made us cry and the ones that made us stop and ques...
The Bounty Hunter
Sidebar by Courthouse News - November 15, 2022 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBounty hunters. Figures from folk tales, fantasy and reality TV; free agents that work as an extension of the law. Whatever comes to mind, this latest chapter in vigilante justice is shaking things up even more at a polarized time in the country. The enaction of Texas's Senate Bill 8 allows pri...
A Nightmare on Legal Street
Sidebar by Courthouse News - October 25, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsPour yourself a hot drink, settle in beside the fire and get ready for a hauntingly good time as we bring you four chilling tales just in time for Halloween. In our first chapter: McKamey Manor, arguably the scariest haunted house in operation, with an even scarier 40-page liability waiver. Amo...
Constitution Crisis: A SCOTUS Term Preview
Sidebar by Courthouse News - October 04, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhile this U.S. Supreme Court term shouldn't result in as many sweeping decisions as the last, which upended nationwide abortion rights and gun control precedents, it'll be far from a lightweight season. The court's cases are varied: from redistricting to artist integrity to the legality of the ...
Rap Lyrics, Criminal Prosecutions and the First Amendment
Sidebar by Courthouse News - September 13, 2022 12:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIt's a First Amendment fight for the modern ages: the right to free speech versus the pursuit of justice, and the stakes are often someone's freedom. In courtrooms across the country, prosecutors are going after rappers using the artists' lyrics against them. While not a recent development in t...
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