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14 Mar 2025, 12:30 pm
[Intellectual strait jackets, vulgar language, and dodging judicial inquiry.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Friends, come join us at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, April 3 to celebrate ten years of Short Circuit. It's going to be super swell, and some important people will be there. RSVP today! We're getting mighty close to waitlist territory. New on the Short Circuit… [read post]
7 Mar 2025, 12:30 pm
[Measles outbreaks, navigable rivers, and a winey circuit split.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. This week on the Short Circuit podcast: the panel looks at the Sixth Circuit's look at a Cincinnati councilman's bribery conviction. Allegation: In 2013, Long Island, N.Y. school bus driver has medical emergency, crashes into parked car. (No students harmed.) He passes three breathalyzers, and a… [read post]
28 Feb 2025, 12:30 pm
over the automatic renewal of her gym subscription and therefore "eludes the Gordian knot that Ross [read post]
14 Feb 2025, 12:30 pm
[Pole cameras, real estate RICO, and the Eighth Circuit island.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Of late, the Eleventh Circuit has been at the cutting-edge of excessive-fines litigation. And in a recent case—United States v. Schwarzbaum—the court got some important things right (e.g., that the Excessive Fines Clause does indeed apply to multi-million-dollar civil penalties). But it also got… [read post]
24 Jan 2025, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Friends, Short Circuit is turning 10, and we're having a party! Sláinte! Please come join us, retired judges Diane Wood and Kent Jordan, and a full cast of noteworthies on Thursday, April 3, 2025, at 7pm at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. for lively discussion and a live recording of the Short Circuit podcast. Register here today! Some people think… [read post]
17 Jan 2025, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Friends, 2025 marks ten years of Short Circuit. That's right, our first newsletter went out February 13, 2015, and our first podcast two weeks later. To celebrate, we're putting on a show—and hosting a party. The best part is that you're invited. It's Thursday, April 3, 2024, at 7pm at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. You'll hear… [read post]
10 Jan 2025, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New on the Short Circuit podcast: Major Questions about the SEC and dirt sampling without a warrant. Going in the other direction from most states, in 2023, Virginia legislators outlawed certain products containing THC that are actually legal under federal law per Congress's 2018 "hemp" reform. Does that reform, or the dormant Commerce Clause, nullify the… [read post]
29 Nov 2024, 1:40 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New on Unpublished Opinions, IJ's roundtable podcast: public interest attorneys and social media, specialized courts, and judges wearing wigs. Narrow ruling (for now) in buzzy nondelegation case. Issue: Does FINRA, a private corporation that stockbrokers must join, wield too much power by expelling members without any government oversight? Stockbroker… [read post]
22 Nov 2024, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. This week, the DOJ announced that the DEA will cease its "cold consent encounters" at airports, during which agents demand to search people's bags while telling them things like, "I don't need your consent." The suspension coincides with an inspector general report condemning the practice. "We welcome DOJ's suspension of this… [read post]
15 Nov 2024, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Nearly a decade ago, New Mexico all but eliminated civil forfeiture, ending the practice of taking people's stuff without convicting them of a crime. And then what happened? Did the state descend into lawlessness? On the contrary, crime rates were not impacted. So says a peer-reviewed study newly published in the Criminal Justice Review that used nine years of… [read post]
18 Oct 2024, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Last week, IJ's cofounder and former president Chip Mellor passed away after a battle with leukemia. Godspeed, Chip. You're a legend. Click here to learn more. New on the Short Circuit podcast: What happens when the gov't claims it doesn't enforce the law? It avoids a lot of civil rights lawsuits. Economists like to say that incentives matter.… [read post]
11 Oct 2024, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Granted! Vacated! Remanded! This week, SCOTUS revived IJ client Mason Murphy's retaliatory arrest claim against an officer who arrested him for walking on the wrong side of a rural road in Missouri—an offense that never results in arrest in that jurisdiction. On remand to the Eighth Circuit, Mason will now have another shot at showing that he should… [read post]
4 Oct 2024, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Victory! Earlier this year, IJ sued Oregon agricultural officials for requiring small dairy farms with only a handful of animals to install unnecessary and ruinously expensive industrial-grade wastewater management systems—a favor to big dairy farms that wanted to put their smaller competitors out of business. This week, we're happy to announce that the Oregon… [read post]
27 Sep 2024, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New cert petition! Friends, if an FBI SWAT team ever raids your home by mistake, terrifying your family, because they couldn't be bothered to double check they had the right address, you might like to sue over it. And you might think the Federal Tort Claims Act, which Congress amended in 1974 specifically to ensure there's a cause of action for federal police… [read post]
20 Sep 2024, 12:30 pm
[Equity training, intrusive questions, and a sorry mofo. ] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New case! Last year, Macon-Bibb County, Ga. officials demolished IJ client Eric Arnold's house without any notice or any kind of court proceeding—one of 800 houses to be demolished in the county over the last three years as part of a secret code enforcement program that lacks the most basic due… [read post]
9 Aug 2024, 12:30 pm
[Arresting the wrong Jose Vasquez. Arresting the wrong Bethany Farber. Arresting the wrong Juan Martinez.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. This week on the Short Circuit podcast: A dog named Thor not behaving as man's best friend and speculation as to why "bigamy" is in the Mississippi Constitution. And, over at the Fed Soc teleforum, IJ's own Robert McNamara moderates a debate on… [read post]
2 Aug 2024, 12:30 pm
[Heated depositions, wellness checks, and strip searches. ] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New cert petition! In 2013, a Clovis, Calif. officer disclosed to a fellow officer that his girlfriend had filed a confidential domestic violence complaint against him—knowing full well that she was trapped in a room with him at that very moment. He then brutally attacked her. And though the Ninth Circuit… [read post]
26 Jul 2024, 1:09 pm
[Venue roulette, a sham affidavit, and uninspected bloomin’ onions.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New on the Short Circuit podcast: Saddle up for a ride into the Tenth Circuit hills with a parking lot full of Broncos fans and a new legal doctrine called Biven's cat. Army forensic examiner's now-ex-wife files report alleging sexual assault with his employer. Following an… [read post]
5 Jul 2024, 12:30 pm
[Controversial memes, mandatory recusal, and punitive damages caps.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. This year the Fourth of July isn't just America's independence day—it's also, ironically, general election day in the old mother country. Over at Discourse Magazine, IJ's own Anthony Sanders uses this coincidence as an opportunity to reflect on the differences between the two… [read post]
21 Jun 2024, 1:00 pm
[John, Paul, George, and Ringo; foreign agents; and warrantless home searches.] [read post]
