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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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Marijuana and cannabis-based products are everywhere these
days.

Even in states like Tennessee, where marijuana and THC-derived
products are still recreationally and medically illegal, weed is still making
waves, both legislatively and from a consumer perspective.

Here in Tennessee, the most recent to-do about marijuana
centers around Delta-8, which is sort of the gentler, and more importantly, legal, cousin of your traditional marijuana.

More and more states across the country are legalizing the
once scary drug, gaining huge sums of money in the form of taxes and fees at the same time. At the same time, more than 14 states have either banned weed-adjacent things like Delta-8, so it is understandably a very confusing time for anyone looking at the larger state of affairs in the cannabis industry.

In an effort to understand the market and legal landscape a
bit better, I’ve invited Stephen Galoob, a professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law on to the show today to go into a bit more depth about how states are regulating the marijuana market and how the landscape is changing across the country, at both the state and federal levels. From the effects of criminal record expungement in states like Minnesota to the jobs created by the marijuana industry, we touch on a lot of interesting points across the weed spectrum.