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  Legal AF 1.25M subscribers Oct 5, 2026 Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian dig into HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s quietly reversed ethics commitment over his Gardasil vaccine lawsuit fees, now the subject of a formal Senate inquiry. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, originally held a 10% referral-fee stake in roughly 200 Gardasil cases filed by his former firm, Wisner Baum, alleging Merck's HPV vaccine caused cervical cancer — claims a judge rejected on summary judgment for lack of scientific evidence before Merck settled anyway for $50 million in June 2026. Under pressure from Senator Elizabeth Warren during his 2025 confirmation, Kennedy signed an ethics agreement promising to irrevocably assign his Gardasil stake to his adult son Conor, a licensed California attorney at Wisner Baum — but just ten days later, on February 11, 2025, he quietly reassigned the interest back to the firm itself, two days before the Senate confirmed him without knowing abo...

  Legal AF 1.15M subscribers Jun 28, 2026 Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down the Fong Amendment, inserted into the $580 billion Build America 250 Act at 2 a.m. on May 22 by California MAGA Republican Vince Fong. The provision would preempt state vicarious liability, common carrier, and non-delegable duty doctrines for rideshare companies, reclassifying Uber and Lyft as "digital networks" instead of transportation providers. It would apply retroactively, potentially wiping out 3,000+ pending sexual assault cases consolidated in federal court. Uber spent nearly $1 million lobbying on the bill this quarter alone. The amendment surfaced weeks after a second federal jury hit Uber with an $8.5 million verdict for a driver's sexual assault. One survivor, Jaylynn Dean, wrote to Congress that Uber's own algorithm rated her ride a .81 on a zero-to-one sexual assault risk scale but never warned her, and the driver had been reported multiple times. Brian ...

  Legal AF 1.08M subscribers Mar 28, 2026 Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian dig into what could be one of the biggest government data scandals in American history. A whistleblower has alleged that a former DOGE software engineer named John Solly walked out of the Social Security Administration with the personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans on a thumb drive — including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and names from the NUMIDENT database, which covers nearly every living American. He then allegedly took a job as CTO at Leidos , a government contractor with up to $1.5 billion in SSA contracts, and told coworkers he planned to share the data. The SSA Inspector General is investigating, Congress has launched its own probe, and Solly and the SSA have denied the allegations. Brian and Shant walk through the civil and criminal ramifications — from the False Claims Act and whistleblower protections to federal computer fraud, theft of government proper...

  Legal AF 901K subscribers Nov 1, 2025 Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian expose how the Supreme Court confirmation process has devolved from selecting legal scholars into political theater, with no enforceable ethics rules to prevent justices from accepting millions in undisclosed gifts. The hosts reveal how Justice Clarence Thomas accepted $4.2 million in luxury trips, private jets, and yacht excursions from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow —ten times more than all other justices combined—while Crow paid private school tuition for Thomas' great-nephew and purchased Thomas' mother's home, all without disclosure despite clear federal law requirements. They detail how Justice Samuel Alito flew an upside-down American flag outside his Virginia home on January 17, 2021—a Stop the Steal symbol carried by January 6 insurrectionists —then blamed his wife and refused to recuse himself from Trump immunity cases, while the Supreme Court's toothless ethics code adopt...