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Justices Consider The Reach Of Mass Tort Immunity

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Florida's new Disney district report accuses the old board of the 'most egregious exhibition of corporate cronyism in modern American history.'

Haley Knoth and Alex Lawson open without Amber. Before they reach the main legal story, Alex takes a detour through Mrs. Doubtfire, cable TV nostalgia, and the oddly convincing courtroom judge he landed on while channel-surfing. It works. The conversation then turns to a retaliation case involving Strickland, a former public defender who is now representing herself alongside her husband, Cooper Strickland, who is also an attorney. The posture is messy. Her earlier legal team, which had been described in the legal press as a dream team of Harvard law professors and litigators, abruptly walked off the case earlier this year. The withdrawal was framed as irreconcilable differences. Later filings suggest the split may have followed a dispute over recordings Strickland made of colleagues while she was still working in the public defender’s office. That is where the trouble deepens. The DOJ, which is defending the federal judiciary in the retaliation suit, presses Strickland on what the recordings contain and whether they include sensitive information that should have been turned over. She refuses to answer. The hosts lay out the practical problem plainly: a federal employee who allegedly recorded workplace conversations and then declined to answer questions about them creates an evidentiary and ethical mess. The case keeps branching. Strickland also moves to have the DOJ lawyers disqualified, which adds another layer of conflict to an already knotted record. The episode keeps resetting the listener. That back-and-forth, plus the hosts’ habit of translating legal jargon into plain English, makes the dispute easier to follow than it would be on paper. The tone stays dry. Even when the facts get thorny, the show keeps a brisk pace and uses small jokes as pressure valves instead of letting the legal detail swamp the conversation. It ends with credits. Vince Sullivan is thanked as the guest, Haley Fowler and Ryan Haroff are named among the contributing reporters, and the show closes with the usual call to read more at Law360.

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Law360's Pro Se follows a retaliation fight with procedural complications: alleged secret recordings, a legal team that abruptly withdrew, and DOJ lawyers pressing over disclosure and sensitivity issues.

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