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17 May 2024, 1:07 pm
[A right to go down in flames, a machete confrontation, and a jury that only goes up to eleven.] New on the Short Circuit podcast: Duke Professor Nita Farahany digs into her book The Battle for Your Brain and what can be done about a future where the government can read your mind. D.C. Circuit: We're not saying that these plaintiffs weren't on a terrorist watch list when they filed this lawsuit. We're just saying that if, hypothetically, the government's ex… [read post]
3 May 2024, 12:30 pm
[River rides, purple robes, and aesthetic injuries.] 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: borrowing cars and lousy neighbors. New York's legislature enacts legislation forcing internet service providers to offer broadband to low-income folks at below-market rates. ISPs: Preemption! District court: Indeed, field and conflict preemption. Second Circuit: Nope. Congress… [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 12:30 pm
[Reasonable SWAT mistakes, lying forensic pathologists, and de minimis injuries. ] 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 Bound By Oath podcast: We get neuroanthropological, philosophical, and just a tad practical – and determine conclusively that property rights are a good thing and property isn't theft. New on the Short Circuit podcast: Special guest Michel Paradis of Columbia Law… [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 12:30 pm
[Bird poop, non-testimonial thumbs, and the heckler's veto.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Pish-tosh and tomfoolery! This week, Tex. Attorney General Ken Paxton lost 9-0 at the U.S. Supreme Court. Curiously, he declared victory. But we double checked and can indeed confirm that he urged the Court to affirm the dismissal of IJ client Richie Devillier's Fifth Amendment takings claim and… [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 12:30 pm
[Neighborhood character, three-judge district court panels, and a moldy office.] 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: a judge-selection jaunt and a baptism in lieu of arrest. "Whose house?" "Our house!" D.C. Circuit: The United States Capitol building is, in fact, not your house. Nor is it a traditional public forum. So this Florida man's various… [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 12:18 pm
[Sovereign neighbors, voting particulars, and a qualified baptism.] New on the Short Circuit podcast: A dive into IJ's research report Unaccountable, which examines how qualified immunity really works in the federal circuit courts of appeals. The interview with its authors includes a special look at the methodology used by the team to comb through over 7,000 opinions issued over 11 years. USPS products include those over which it has a monopoly, like first-class mail, and… [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 12:30 pm
that applied the test from another Warren Court case where one of the parties was A Book Named 'John [read post]
23 Feb 2024, 12:30 pm
[Final decisions, accidental strip searches, and puppycide. ] 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: A FERC ratemaking foofaraw and 43 SWAT officers who should feel poorly about themselves. When a town makes clear it won't let you build a project on your land, how many times must you ask it to change its mind to make sure you have a "final" decision ripe for… [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 12:30 pm
[Citizen Trump, political chalking, and rough business.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New case! Just as Peter and Annica Quakenbush were about to open a conservation burial ground (or green cemetery) on their heavily forested property in rural Michigan, local officials passed an ordinance banning cemeteries. But the Michigan Constitution protects the right to use property and engage in any business… [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 12:30 pm
[Criminalizing journalism, spooking gun buyers, and fashioning the destiny of the community.] 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, at the request of large dairy producers, Oregon agriculture officials decided to force small dairies to comply with the same regulations that apply to big dairies. Which means, for instance, installing ruinously expensive equipment to manage health concerns… [read post]
19 Jan 2024, 1:36 pm
"I haven't seen Evil Dead II yet" queries John Cusack to Jack Black [read post]
29 Dec 2023, 12:30 pm
[Brady violations, dual enrollments, and a West Coast conviction.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Transgender woman is serving a 75-year prison term for murder, assault, and burglary. A prison guard repeatedly presses her into giving sexual favors in 2011. He is then convicted. In 2018—after the statute of limitations has lapsed—she files a civil rights suit. Prisoner: Equitable tolling… [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 12:30 pm
[Long opinions, long captions, and valuable considerations.] 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: At summary judgment, judges are supposed to apply the law to undisputed facts, leaving factual disputes to be decided by a jury. But earlier this year, an Eighth Circuit panel usurped the jury's role, said that dashcam video shows something that it does not show, and granted qualified… [read post]
1 Dec 2023, 12:30 pm
[Retaliating against a harbormaster, retaliating against a prisoner, and official-act immunity.] 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: private rights of action to enforce voting rights and a failed attempt to get Donald Trump kicked off the ballot in New Hampshire on insurrection grounds. "The sole issue before us"—says the D.C. Circuit in these suits… [read post]
24 Nov 2023, 12:30 pm
[Solar panels, bullet fragments, and private rights of action.] 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: Texas drone privacy and an unparticular iCloud search. In 2018 President Trump jacked up tariffs on solar panels to "protect the domestic solar panel industry." Producers of a certain kind of solar panel—of the "bifacial" variety—petitioned… [read post]
27 Oct 2023, 12:30 pm
[Drone speech, roofer speech, and quasi-judicial speech.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. In Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, public school employees who use unconstitutional violence against students—and those who ignore such violence—enjoy complete immunity from Section 1983 claims. That is bananas, and this week we asked the Supreme Court to put a stop to it (and also to resolve a… [read post]
20 Oct 2023, 12:30 pm
[Harvesting Facebook data, directorial diversity, and corrupt intent.] 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: Special guest Joe Diedrich joins the panel to talk at various levels of generality about public school principals' occupational liberty and the effects of campaign finance disclosure laws on mom and pop. January 6 protestor is convicted of having… [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 12:30 pm
Concurrence: I hear you, Puerto Ricans invoking John Locke and the principle of the consent of the governed [read post]
8 Sep 2023, 12:30 pm
[3,000 years of overdetention, chief lickspittle, and the wrong side of the road.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. More and more governments are demanding that "professionals," rather than mere volunteers, help people, whether feeding those in need or trimming a neighbor's trees. But that crowds out civil society and frays the bonds between us. Is it therefore time to recognize a… [read post]
1 Sep 2023, 12:30 pm
[Detroit's forfeiture machine, major nuclear questions, and copyrightable materials. ] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. You want to hear something neat? Next month, IJ is going to argue before the Michigan Supreme Court—but not at the Michigan Supreme Court. Instead, oral argument will be held at a high school in Flint because sometimes—in cases of deep importance and keen public… [read post]
