ASU Law Student Radio is a student organization based at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. We conduct, record, and distribute podcast interviews with professors, students, and attorneys for the ASU Law community and other law students across the country. If you have any comments or questions, or are interested in joining the team, feel free to email us at asulawradio@gmail.com
Keeping Government in Check: Public Interest Litigation with Christina Sandefur
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Christina Sandefur is the Executive Vice President of the Goldwater Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting key rights like free speech and private property. Goldwater keeps governments in check by bringing suit on behalf of everyday citizens facing crushing regulations and overreaching enforcement.
You'll hear:
— How the Goldwater Institute fights for important rights across the country.
— Stories of real people that the Goldwater Institute has helped.
— The Right to Try initiative, and how it preserves access to potentially life-saving treatments.
— The greatest threats to Arizonans’ private property rights.
Guest: Christina Sandefur, Executive Vice President at the Goldwater Institute
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20 Oct 2026
The Case That Took Down Big Tobacco: Lessons from the Attorney General Who Filed It
The Case That Took Down Big Tobacco: Lessons from the Attorney General Who Filed It
For forty years, every smoker who sued Big Tobacco lost. Juries always sided with the industry: you chose to smoke. Then in May 1994, a 41-year-old attorney general from Mississippi walked into a county courthouse with two other lawyers and a theory nobody had tried. Across the aisle sat sixty-eight tobacco lawyers. Four years later, the industry signed the largest civil settlement in American history, killed Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man, and paid the states $246 billion.
Moore joins host Abdi Lopez to tell the story from the inside: the three-lawyer team that showed up to face sixty-eight tobacco lawyers at the first hearing, the governor who sued his own attorney general to stop the case, the whistleblower documents smuggled out in a girdle, the Jeffrey Wigand deposition dramatized in The Insider, and the negotiations with tobacco CEOs that led to the Master Settlement Agreement.
Along the way, the conversation covers why forty years of individual smoker lawsuits failed and how changing the plaintiff from the smoker to the state beat the "you chose to smoke" defense; the novel claims of fraud, unjust enrichment, and restitution that replaced a traditional subrogation suit; the epidemiological evidence that let the state prove Medicaid costs statistically; and the attorney general's enforcement toolkit, including civil investigative demands, suing without class certification, and civil penalties, along with the criticisms that come with that power.
Visiting contributor David Seligman, Executive Director of Towards Justice, stops by to add the private-enforcement perspective on class actions, forced arbitration, and why he believes now is not the time for law students to be cautious.
Mike Moore served as Mississippi's attorney general from 1988 to 2004 and has since been a lead negotiator in the BP Deepwater Horizon and national opioid settlements. He practices at the Mike Moore Law Firm in Flowood, Mississippi.
ASU Law Student Radio is a student organization at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Questions or want to get involved? Email asulawradio@gmail.com.
16 Oct 2026
High Stakes Lawyering: Elections and Investigations with Kory Langhofer
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Kory Langhofer handles high-stakes, bespoke political matters. He’s worked on a presidential campaign, advocated in ballot access matters, and advised targets of government investigation.
His firm, Statecraft, is a boutique firm focused on providing a high level of service with a lean operation. Our conversation took us through his career, from federal prosecutor to working on the hail-mary Trump 2016 campaign.
You'll hear:
— What really happens on a presidential transition team.
— The benefits of working for a boutique firm as opposed to a larger shop.
— The biggest mistake people under federal investigation make.
— Why Maricopa County takes so long to tally its votes compared to the rest of the country.
Guest: Kory Langhofer, Managing Partner at Statecraft PLLC [tag Kory Langhofer + ASU Law]
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