How could the legal battle over gay marriage in Utah impact the country?

How could the legal battle over gay marriage in Utah impact the country? 

Guest: 

Clifford Rosky
Chairman of the board of directors of Equality Utah (@EqualityUtah), Professor of law at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law.

Read about Utah officials' plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block a judge's decision that allows for same-sex couples to get married in that state, via The Salt Lake Tribune.  

Is the NSA's phone data-collection system constitutional?

Guest:

Michael Price @MichaelWPrice   
Counsel for the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program

Read about the latest federal ruling about NSA surveillance, via Al Jazeera America. 

Could a New York casino represent a new chapter in the fight for a living wage?

Workers at Resorts World Casino in Queens, N.Y. are being paid a living wage following an October ruling from a labor arbitrator. Some casino workers' salaries jumped from around $20,000 to around $40,000 overnight. What does this mean for the debate over the minimum wage and calls for a living wage?

Guest:

Stephanie Luce
Associate professor of labor studies at the City University of New York’s School of Professional Studies (@CUNYSPS). She testified on behalf of the Resorts World Casino workers' union.

What quality of life issues do service workers face?  

David Cay Johnston @DavidCayJ   
Al Jazeera contributor, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, bestselling author, board president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, and a professor at Syracuse University’s College of Law. 

Read Johnston's recent opinion piece for Al Jazeera America, "Is service work today worse than being a household servant?" 

How does the Somali-American community in Minnesota deal with recruitment efforts by Al-Shabab?

Guest:

Jonathan Alpeyrie @jonathaalpeyrie   
Photojournalist who has reported on Somalis living in Minneapolis.

Could a scientific breakthrough hold the key to combatting multiple sclerosis? 

Al Jazeera reporter Stephanie Scawen made a documentary, "MS and Me: The Search for a Cure," about her experience living with multiple sclerosis. 

Guest:

Dr. Saud Sadiq
Director of the Tisch Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York (@Tisch_MS).   

Learn more about the making of "MS and Me," via Al Jazeera English.   

Note: Tonight our guest host is Adam May (@AdamMayTV), correspondent for Al Jazeera America. Antonio Mora will return on Dec. 31. 

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