Legally Insane - The Law is Funny

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Employer Liability- French Man's Affair Considered Within The Scope of Employment – Ep 96 Sep 19, 2019

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When is an employer held liable for an employee's actions? It depends on the scope of work, or employment. The legal scope of employment is the range of activities that an employee is reasonably expected to do as part of his or her job. Within this range of activities, the employer may be held liable for the employee's actions when a third party is injured by the employee's conduct. Today Matt and Tony examine a recent French case involving scope of employment as well as several other funny US cases.

Highlights:

Xavier The Frenchman's death
France considers any accident that happens during a business trip to be work related
The US Scope Of employment
Helicopter crashed cause by clipboard
The Country Club testicle
A tub of tampons

The Takeaway – Whether or not your employer is liable depends on your scope of work.

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Climate Laws - Do We Have Fundamental Right to Breathe Clean Air – Ep 95 Sep 13, 2019

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Climate change is an on-going debate in this country. Recently a group of teens filed a lawsuit against the US government - Juliana vs. The US. These teens are saying that they have a right to a stable climate and that the trump administration is destroying the environment. This lawsuit caused the guys to dig into the history of climate laws in the US. In this episode they discuss the environmental regulations Trump has removed, the air quality in LA and NYC in the 1970's, nuclear energy and more.

Highlights:

Our Children's Trust
Trump has removed 84 environmental regulations
Light bulb regulations
Car manufacturers regulations
The Air Pollution Control Act of 1955
Nuclear energy is surprisingly the cleanest
Acid Rain

The Takeaway – We've come a long way with cleaning up the environment, but we still have a long way to go. Surprisingly nuclear energy is the most efficient and cleanest.

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From the Sacklers to the Original Opium Wars - Drug Laws – Ep 94 Sep 05, 2019

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The USA is in the middle of an Opium epidemic. Currently, it's estimated that over 200,000 people have died from the use of Opioids. In today's episode Matt and Tony dive into the history of Opium and discuss how it was once an accepted medicine for various run of the mill illnesses. Opium is extremely addicting and is currently is being transformed into Heroin and being cut with Fentanyl. Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of dying.

Highlights:

200k deaths from opioids
Perdue Pharma
The historical use of opium in tick tacks
The British East India Company
Using opium for regular ailments
Bayer, the godfathers of heroin
Opium Dens
The Pure Food and Drug Act
US Drug Czars

The Takeaway – What once was a centralized problem is now an epidemic.

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Examining Tulsi Gabbard Campaign - Assad Stooge or Strong Contender – Ep 93 Aug 14, 2019

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Tulsi Gabbard, is an American politician and military veteran, serving as the U.S Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district. Her 2020 presidential run hasn't been mentioned much in the press, so in today's episode the guys dig into her history and political stances. She has a history of not supporting gay rights, being involved with the Hare Krishna's, going behind the democrats back and has a questionable history with her father.

Highlights:

Involved in environmental politics from a young age
Thank you for your service
Tulsi used to not support gay rights but has now changed her stance
Capoeira
Discipline of Hare Krishna
Anti Interventionist
Sued Google for 50 million

The Takeaway – Tulsi has been disloyal to her party and her past may come back to her haunt her in this election.

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Examining Marianne Williamson's Candidacy and the Dark Psychic Forces - Ep 92 Aug 07, 2019

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Author, Activist and 2020 Democratic candidate Marianne Williamson is the topic of discussion today. She's the founder of Project Angel Food and the co-founder of the Peace Alliance. While she's certainly done a lot of good in the world, she's a bit of an oddball. That's what Matt and Tony are going to be diving into today. Specifically the metaphysical bookstore she ran in the early 80's, her "Orwellian" stance on vaccines and how "nothing occurs outside our minds".

Highlights:

Switching accents during the debate
A conservative Jew
Being an opportunist
Promoting Huxters
Serving up some Angel Food cake
Vaccines are Orwellian
Running for office without a college degree

The Takeaway – She's done some good things for society but her strange past might come back to haunt her.

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Jeffrey Epstein's Pedo Island - The Sex Trafficking Case that May Bring Down Everyone - Ep 91 Jul 25, 2019

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Hedge Fund Manager, Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested for allegedly sex trafficking minors. This is on the heels of him pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution involving a minor in 2008. Epstein owns a private island called "Little St. James". Allegedly this is where he would take underage girls, hold them hostage, and him and his friends would have their way with them. Many of Hollywood's Elite and powerful Government officials were said to have partied with Epstein and visited his island.

Highlights:

Non prosecution agreement in 2008
"A Collector of People"
Only working with Billionaires
Unexplained Wealth
Epstein's Temple
Digital photos of young women hidden in Epstein's safe
Cy Vance, the scumbag District Attorney of NYC
The Sex offender levels and point system
Hanging with Hollywood's Elite
NYC's – Child Victim's Act

The Takeaway – Let's put this guy away

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The Curious Michelle Carter Case - Can Texting Your Boyfriend Be Manslaughter? - Ep 90 Jul 18, 2019

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I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter is a documentary about the death of Conrad Roy. Conrad and Michelle had fallen in love and shared thousands of text messages over the span of two years, but only met in real life about five times. On July 13th, 2014 Conrad was found dead in his car. When investigators discovered the text messages between these two lovers, it was uncovered that Carter had encouraged Roy to kill himself. Carter has since been arrested for involuntary manslaughter.

Matt and Tony both watched the documentary and in today's episode give their opinions about the case, the deranged Michelle Carter and uncover the legal controversy of text messages within lawsuits.

Highlights:

Both Carter and Michelle were infatuated with self harm
Michelle became popular because of "dead boyfriend sympathy" and she relished in it.
Carter was aggressive about having his memorial in her town, so she could be the center of attention.
The abusive father and clueless father
Unintentional vs. involuntary in the eyes of the law
The computer fraud and abuse act

The Takeaway – Texting is going to be faced with more and more scrutiny under the law as it's an unavoidable part of our society.

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The Curious Case of Eddie Gallagher's Court Martial - Did Trump Interfere in A Murder Case – Ep 89 Jul 11, 2019

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Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher was found not guilty of murder in his recent war crimes case. The case was centered on him killing an ISIS militant who lay helpless, already wounded and being treated by a medic. The case was spoiled when the medic who was already granted immunity from the Military claimed he killed the ISIS militant. Trump has been in the news this week, taking credit for the not guilty verdict. In today's episode Matt and Tony dissect this case and dive into the history of the Court Martial.

Highlights:

The hunting knife
The medic's testimony
Shooting at the locals
Court-Martial vs. Military Tribunals
General Custer and Benedict Arnold, both famous Court-Martials

The Takeaway – It's yet to be seen what Trump's involvement in this was case; we'll wait and see as the story develops further.

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School Busing - What The Heck Were Kamala and Biden Talking About – Ep 88 Jul 03, 2019

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The 2020 Democratic debate has come and gone, but the interaction between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden is still in the news. Kamala Harris accused Joe Biden of supporting segregationist senators and opposing bussing. Desegregation Bussing is the practice of transporting students to schools in different neighborhoods in an effort to address racial segregation. Biden has since denied opposing bussing overall. Today, Matt and Tony dissect the uproar between Joe and Kamala and discuss the history of Bussing.

Highlights:

Brown vs. Board of Education
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg, ruled the courts can use bussing as a desegregation tool.
The White Flight
The Second Great Migration
Southern Manifesto
A 1999 poll showed 82% agreed that letting students go to their neighborhood school would be better than achieving racial balance through bussing
In The Roberts Court, the Supreme Court struck down a lot of race based integration plans

The Takeaway – For better or worse the majority of the American public is against bussing.

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It's Not a Concentration Camp, but It's Still Hellish. The Border Crisis and The Flores Lawsuit that Stopped Child Strip Searches - Ep 87 Jun 27, 2019

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In today's episode Matt and Tony are going to be discussing the recent situation with immigrants being detained at the boarder. Children are being separated from their families and are being kept without things like toothpaste, soap and blankets to sleep with. There's currently an estimated 52,000 people being detained at the boarder and there's really no clear-cut solution on what to do with these people and how to provide with them adequate human necessities and living conditions.

Highlights:

Determining the detainee's needs
Strip searching immigrant teens and children in the 1980's, at the US boarder
The Flores Settlement Agreement
Immigrants claiming asylum get priority at the boarder
The definition of asylum is loosening
As of May 20th, 2019 more than 52,000 people are being detained by ICE
Trump claims 90% of the immigrants at the boarder don't attend their hearings. The Left claims its closer to 20%

The Takeaway – We need to stop looking at people like they're objects. We need to humanize the situation and figure out how to properly care for, treat and process these immigrants. There's not easy solution, but this is a bi-partisan humanitarian crisis.

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