Show Cause - A Memphis Law Podcast

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Show Cause - A Memphis Law Podcast

Show Cause is the official podcast of the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Oftentimes, an order to show cause requires a party to give a judge more information to help explain something to the court. There's no judge here, but there is a lot of information (and misinformation) out there these days. This is our attempt at helping explain some of the things happening across the cultural and legal spectrums, with insight from our faculty, students, alumni, and community partners.

  1. HACE 5 DÍAS

    Kids & Guns: Using the Law to Treat the Trauma

    This episode focuses on Memphis Law's partnership with Everytown For Gun Safety and Le Bonheur Children's Hospital to help the pediatric victims of gun violence in the Mid-South. Abigail Weiss, the law school's "Everytown Legal Fellow," joins the podcast to go into detail about the work being done by her and her students in our Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Le Bonheur, where they help address the civil legal needs of these children and their families affected by gun violence. The trauma of gun violence goes beyond the immediate health-related concerns. From housing relocation issues, domestic violence, and firearm surrender matters, our MLP team helps to educate the next generation of attorneys to address gun violence through the legal system in a region where gun violence rates are historically high.

    34 min

  2. 1 NOV

    Troubled Waters - Protecting Tennessee's Wetlands

    Thanks to the Memphis Sands Aquifer, Memphis has some of the best drinking water in the world. But the quality of that water may be at risk due to the recent Supreme Court ruling in Sackett v. EPA, which stripped federal protections from a massive amount of wetlands across the country, including the wetlands that help "recharge" and filter the water flowing into our very own aquifer. Recent state legislation introduced last year, and still under review, sought to further roll back wetland protections in Tennessee in favor of development. And with the wetlands in West TN sitting right under Ford's under construction "Blue Oval City," the need to protect these "superheroes" of nature is more vital than ever. Sarah Houston, Executive Director of Protect Our Aquifer, joins the podcast to help explain the importance of the aquifer, not only to Memphis and Tennessee, but also the greater Mid-South region. She dives into the details pertaining to this proposed legislation and explains why protecting these wetlands is one of the truly most bi-partisan issues imaginable. Houston also discusses how the changes proposed by these bills could drastically affect waterways, water quality, and ways of life throughout the entire state of Tennessee, from recreational fishing and hunting, to agriculture, to whole economies in regions throughout the state.

    55 min

  3. 16 MAY

    Game Over or Changing the Game? Employment Status & NIL

    The concept of NCAA student-athletes being recognized as employees has brought about intense debate surrounding NIL deals and regulations. In this episode, we delve into many of the relevant issues such as the ability of student-athletes unionization or players associations, insurance, the implications of student-athletes being "fired" and losing scholarships, increased costs on behalf of universities due to salaries and benefits, taxation issues, and the implications on non-revenue generating sports within athletic departments. Memphis Law professor Lynda Black and recent Memphis Law graduate Lexi Hivner join us to go into more depth about all of these related employment issues and the future of NIL.

    53 min

  4. 12 ABR

    Space Tourism - Protecting the Next Frontier

    Today's space industry is a more than $500 billion dollar enterprise, with commercial spaceflight, governmental contracts, telecommunications, mining, solar power, and overall space tourism all making up the many facets of the field. But as governments the world over, as well as billionaires like Elon Musk and Richard Branson are racing to carve up outer space and establish a presence there, what rights and obligations come along with that? How do we protect this new frontier of pristine and uncharted territories? Who has a right to what and how will we even draw the lines that dictate such things? Today we are joined by Memphis Law Professor Jennifer Brobst, who has written extensively on the issues involved here, and recently published a book chapter entitled, “The legal strategies to preserve the natural and cultural heritage of space,” in the book “Space Tourism.”

    43 min

  5. 1 FEB

    Ep. 19 - The Community Legal Center Celebrates 30 Years

    On today’s episode of Show Cause, we’re focusing on one of Memphis’ extremely important non-profit legal services provider in the Community Legal Center, or as most everyone in the legal community here refers to it, the CLC. 2024 is the CLC’s 30th anniversary and as such, it seemed a great time to have some of their folks come on to talk about the important work that they are doing in the Mid-South, as well as what they have lined up for the year. This episode features two guests from the CLC, Executive Director Diana Comes and Immigrant Justice Program Director Colton Bane. Both Colton and Diana lend some amazing insight into the work that the CLC is doing here in Memphis and why the organization is so important, not only just in Memphis but regionally and even across the state. Colton gives some really great insight into the massive amount of immigration related work that the CLC handles and how that area has greatly expanded over the years and its impact on the community.

    45 min

  6. 29 ENE

    A Law Review Symposium Primer - Marginalized Communities & Harmful Infrastructure

    This episode focuses on our upcoming Law Review Symposium entitled "The Path of Least Resistance: How Marginalized Communities are Targeted by Harmful Infrastructures and Land Uses." For anyone interested in issues such as water access, housing, wastewater, and other infrastructure that impacts the well-being of communities, as well as the disparities in how low-income communities fare in these situations, this episode will contain a plethora of interesting items for you! We're joined by Symposium editor Ashlie Gozikowski, who will go into more detail about the symposium itself and why she chose the topic, as well as attorney Sarah Stuart, of Burch, Porter, and Johnson, who is a featured Symposium speaker on a panel focused on the Byhalia Pipeline, where she'll discuss the community involvement, eminent domain issues, and other items related to the successful halting of construction of the Byhalia Pipeline through a low-income South Memphis neighborhood.

    43 min

  7. 05/12/2023

    Protecting the Public- Rahimi, Guns, and the Test of History

    Earlier this year, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that individuals with orders of protection against them must be allowed to keep their guns. This overturned a federal statute that prohibits firearm possession by individuals who a court determined pose a credible threat to the safety of an intimate partner or child. This episode of Show Cause focuses on United States v. Rahimi, the first major Second Amendment case that the Court has taken up since its notorious decision last summer in the case of New York State Rifle and Pistol Association vs. Bruen, which stated that restrictions on the right to bear arms are presumptively unconstitutional unless they are, in a judge’s opinion, consistent with the nation’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation.” From the moment the Court agreed to hear the Rahimi case, advocates hoped it would provide an opportunity for the court to limit the sweep of last year’s blockbuster decision expanding gun rights. We discuss the ramifications of the case with Sara Beth Myers, a Nashville-based attorney who has been a prosecutor at the federal, state, and county levels, who also has a long history of specializing in domestic violence cases at every level.

    39 min

  8. 31/08/2023

    Internationally Known

    In this episode, we take a look at a number of international news items that have received alot of attention lately. We're joined by our own resident international law expert, Professor Ronnie Gipson, as he becomes the podcast's most frequent guest on his 3rd visit on the show. He goes over issues and news items regarding the recent helicopter crash in Russia involving Wagner military group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and how that affects Vladimir Putin's efforts in Russia and the war against Ukraine. We also take an in-depth look at the recent coup d'état in the African country of Niger and how the international community has dealt with the matter compared to that of other recent coups, specifically the 2021 coup in Myanmar. Finally, we examine the international environmental matters related to Japan's recent release of treated wastewater from the Fukishima nuclear plant and how neighboring nations are reacting to the matter. In all of our discussions, China came through as an interested or involved party, showing just how intricate and overlapping these matters can be.

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Show Cause is the official podcast of the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Oftentimes, an order to show cause requires a party to give a judge more information to help explain something to the court. There's no judge here, but there is a lot of information (and misinformation) out there these days. This is our attempt at helping explain some of the things happening across the cultural and legal spectrums, with insight from our faculty, students, alumni, and community partners.

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