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Death on a Dairy – Transcript

by Nancy Mullane

  • September 9, 2016

HOST INTRODUCTION: What do you eat for breakfast? I like a bit of steel cut oatmeal with warm milk and yogurt with fresh fruit and when I sit down to eat I rarely think about…

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Death on a Dairy

by Eilis O'Neill

  • September 6, 2016

What do you eat for breakfast? A bit of steel cut oatmeal with warm milk.  Yogurt with fresh fruit. And when you sit down to eat do you think about where it all comes from?…

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Live Law Philadelphia – Beyond the Walls: Prison Positive

by Nancy Mullane

  • August 9, 2016

If you’ve had unprotected sex the only way to know if you’ve been infected with the HIV is to take a quick saliva or blood test. It’s free and it’s easy. And then whether you’re…

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Rig the System – Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • April 19, 2016

The law isn’t always black and white. Let’s say your neighbor wants to drill for oil in their backyard. It could be loud and it might even pollute the groundwater. You’re worried. Your neighbor feels…

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BONUS EPISODE: A Conversation on Eugenics and the Law

by Nancy Mullane

  • March 28, 2016

Last week, we published STERILIZED, Reporter Jess Engebretson’s disturbing story of Rose Brooks and Lewis Reynolds, two of more than 60,000 men and women forcibly sterilized in the United States by doctors working in state…

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Sterilized – Transcript

by Jess Engebretson

  • March 22, 2016

The law can be a tool for justice, and injustice. Starting in 1907, legislators in dozens of states passed laws that made it legal to forcibly sterilize people considered by some doctors and scientists to…

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Sterilized

by Jess Engebretson

  • March 22, 2016

“If I could have had a family, I probably would have had two or three children.  I think about that all the time.  And sometimes I just cry because the people done me wrong. I…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP4774373402.mp3
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Water Rights

by Jason Albert

  • August 11, 2015

[Encore presentation of Episode 21 from November 19, 2013] In the Western United States, water law is based on what seems like a simple principle: “first in use is first in right.” In other words, first…

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The Trauma Room

by Annie Brown

  • June 16, 2015

When I met Deborah, she had just come home from a prison in upstate New York. Deborah, which is not her real name, had cycled in and out of prison for nearly 30 years, mostly…

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Marijuana Rules

by Peter Frick-Wright

  • April 20, 2015

Recreational pot has earned the state of Colorado $53 million dollars in tax revenue. All on a drug that, according to federal law,
is still illegal. How does a marijuana business navigate all the uncertainty? Find out this week, on Life of the Law.

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