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23 Mar 2018, 1:15 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. In The New York Times, IJ Senior Attorneys Robert McNamara and Paul Sherman urge Americans of all stripes to put aside their beliefs about abortion and root for an outcome in NIFLA v. Becerra, which was argued before the Supreme Court this week, that protects free speech. New on the podcast: a trio of bestirring property rights cases. Click here for iTunes. In an effort to crack down on robocalls, FCC… [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 1:00 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. The underlying premise of the Supreme Court's rational-basis doctrine is that the legislative and executive branches should have broad discretion to regulate the economy—and can be trusted to do so. But a review of funeral industry laws indicates that perhaps this trust is misplaced, argues IJ Senior Attorney Jeff Rowes in the Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy. But if the Supremes… [read post]
19 Feb 2018, 8:00 am
After the riots in Ferguson, Mo., the DOJ investigated and found officials there routinely harass citizens with citations, court summons, and even arrests over minor code violations. To thwart such abuses, which are hardly limited to Ferguson, the Missouri legislature enacted a series of reforms to ensure cities use their code enforcement authority to protect the public from harm rather than fill municipal coffers. This session, however, legislation has been introduced to undo much of that good… [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 10:30 am
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. It would be a great victory for good food and good sense if two bills recently filed in the California and Arizona legislatures were passed into law, says IJ Reporting and Communications Associate Matt Powers. The bills would legalize mobile vending and food trucks, respectively, barring cities from imposing anticompetitive regulations while permitting local officials to address real health and safety… [read post]
29 Jan 2018, 8:00 am
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. This week, Alabama legislators introduced a bill that would eliminate civil forfeiture, meaning the state would no longer be able to take property from people acquitted of—or never charged with—a crime. Over at Forbes.com, IJ Legislative Analyst Nick Sibilla has the story. Among many other indignities that Providence, R.I. firemen heap on female colleague, station cook gives her meals that… [read post]
27 Jul 2018, 12:15 pm
Intellectual creatures, abashed racism, and so, so much self- defecation.Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. After a Texas administrative agency ruled that a home health aide had committed misconduct (thus forbidding her from ever working in the field again), officials told her (and regulations directed her) to appeal by contesting the ruling in court. But when she did, officials argued the suit was barred (and all judicial review… [read post]
2 Nov 2018, 12:45 pm
A barbaric sentence, unpurged voters, and a porcine gag order.The fine folks at ReasonTV have produced a resplendent video on IJ's class action against Coachella and Indio, Calif., which hired a private law firm to prosecute people for minor code infractions (like long grass or broken windows) and then surprised them with bills of $10,000 or more—many months after legal proceedings had concluded. The video features our own Jeffrey Redfern, who, unrelatedly, WON THE BALTIMORE MARATHON a… [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 1:30 pm
Weeds, word counts, and would-be blood donors.Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. New on the podcast: A special Fifth Circuit extravaganza recorded before a live student audience at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin at the invitation of the UT chapter of the Federalist Society. Featuring: Jane Webre (a partner at Scott Douglass & McConnico), Kyle Hawkins (the solicitor general of Texas), Steve Vladeck (a law professor… [read post]
19 Oct 2018, 1:15 pm
Root canals, contraband dogs, and a marijuana petition.Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. Last year, an Akron, Ohio entrepreneur welcomed a group of homeless people to set up tents in the back lot of his commercial property after the city forced them off public land. The encampment has since evolved into a tight-knit community of 44 people helping one another get back on their feet. But the city is using the zoning code to shut it down,… [read post]
12 Oct 2018, 12:30 pm
Public defender shortfalls, warrantless rental inspections, and juveniles in solitary confinement.Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. New on the podcast: Sciencing the heck out of Auer deference, cruel and unusual punishment of the homeless, and Pride Festival picketing. Click here for iTunes. Pennsylvania man serves 10-year sentence for using internet to entice minor (actually an undercover officer). Some conditions of his supervised… [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 12:30 pm
Sacred pachyderms, boating while Latino, and police misconduct insurance.Over at the Cato Institute's Daily Podcast, IJ Senior Attorney Robert McNamara explains why the Supreme Court's recent decision in NIFLA v. Becerra is one of the most important free speech rulings in a generation. Click here to listen. Or click here to read McNamara and fellow IJ Senior Attorney Paul Sherman on NIFLA in Cato's Supreme Court Review. Under decades-old Federal Election Commission regulations,… [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 12:30 pm
A faithless elector feels the Bern, tasing a pregnant woman in the stomach, tasing a man in diabetic shock, and crosses in public parks.Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. Friends, please do consider attending our sesquicentennial celebration of the 14th Amendment this Friday, September 21, in Arlington, Va. The symposium, co-hosted by IJ and the Liberty and Law Center at Antonin Scalia Law School, will feature an all-star lineup of… [read post]
31 Aug 2018, 12:30 pm
Drop drippers, solitary confinement, and hawks v. eagles.Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. In a colorful decision that managed to invoke the Boston Tea Party, Lady Macbeth and Jesus of Nazareth, the Eleventh Circuit ruled that Fort Lauderdale, Florida's permit requirement to share food with homeless people in public parks may run afoul of the First Amendment. Over at Forbes.com, IJ's Nick Sibilla has more. Shirley, Mass.… [read post]
24 Aug 2018, 12:30 pm
Feeding the homeless, drawing the Prophet Muhammed, and Kim Kardashian's plea for executive clemency.Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. Ratified 150 years ago, the 14th Amendment has been called America's "Second Founding." On September 21, IJ and the Law and Liberty Center at Antonin Scalia Law School will co-host a symposium to celebrate, discuss, and debate the Amendment's dramatic history, contemporary… [read post]
17 Aug 2018, 12:30 pm
MacGyver, Rumpelstiltskin, and a whole bunch of attorneys behaving badly.Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. The Texas gov't lied to Patricia Mosley. She followed the instructions of an administrative law judge and appealed an adverse decision in court (instead of before an administrative agency). But Texas officials say the judge and the regulation the judge relied upon (which had been on the books for 14 years) were… [read post]
10 Aug 2018, 12:30 pm
Prolonged hostilities, threatening to complain about the police, and officers who don't turn on their recording equipment.Today the Puerto Rican Supreme Court overruled a 20-year-old precedent and rejected a challenge to a program that will allow up to 10,000 students a year to obtain gov't scholarships to use at private and public schools. Read more here. More news from Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico saca "F" en sus leyes de expropriación. Which is to say that an IJ report on… [read post]
3 Aug 2018, 12:30 pm
Grenades, machine guns, 3D printed guns, a tranquilizer gun, machetes, duct tape, and a long blonde wig.Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. Winston-Salem, N.C. surgeon Gajendra Singh wants to charge patients less than half the going rate for MRIs, but North Carolina's "certificate of need" law prevents him from buying a scanner for his imaging center. Head on over to Vox to read about IJ's newest lawsuit. New on the… [read post]
6 Jul 2018, 1:35 pm
financial records without naming the taxpayers (instead, agents identify account numbers)—so-called John [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. New on the podcast: Special guest Arthur Spitzer of the ACLU of D.C. joins the panel to talk about an American detained in Iraq, jury trials for petty crimes, and banning display of the First and Second Amendments. Click here for iTunes. In 1958, New York banned "gravity knives," which were used by German paratroopers in WWII and are now quite rare. But NYC officials interpret the ban to… [read post]
1 Jun 2018, 12:55 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. Last week, the Iowa Supreme Court struck down part of the state's civil forfeiture law, ruling the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination trumps the state's requirement that individuals challenging forfeiture of their property disclose how they acquired it. Nick Sibilla has the story over at Forbes.com. Newark, N.J. jail officer is sentenced to 25 years for raping pretrial… [read post]
