In this week’s Votes and Verdicts podcast, Bloomberg Intelligence litigation and policy team looks at some of the key catalysts coming up after Labor Day. Nathan Dean discusses the path to de-regulation in the financials sector, the possibility of a government shutdown in September, and the future of SNAP benefits in the Farm Bill. Elliott Stein discusses Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook’s lawsuit challenging her termination, litigation concerning sports-event contracts offered by Kalshi and Robinhood, and a class action trial against BNP Paribas concerning genocide in Sudan. Matt Schettenhelm analyzes the future of the TikTok ban, and he and Jen Rie discuss FCC and DOJ review of Nexstar’s proposed purchase of Tegna. We close with Jen’s discussion of the weakness of Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI.