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11 May 2018, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. Friends, over at the SCOTUS101 podcast, Sheldon Gilbert, the director of IJ's Center for Judicial Engagement, talks Slaughterhouse, in which the Supreme Court gutted the newly ratified Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment—to the country's great and continued detriment. Click here to listen. Dual U.S. –Saudi citizen captured on battlefield in Syria denies… [read post]
4 May 2018, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. Friends, Indiana's Constitution requires the revenue from "all forfeitures" to go to schools. But police and prosecutors in Indianapolis keep millions of dollars in forfeiture proceeds for their agencies, and a state trial court judge recently ruled that's okay because "all forfeitures" does not include civil forfeitures. This week, we asked the Indiana Supreme Court to… [read post]
20 Apr 2018, 1:15 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. This week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard argument on whether there is a rational basis for a law that prohibits joint operation of both a cemetery and a funeral home. Should the state have to point to specific facts showing the law protects the public from harm—or should it just have to show that the law could arguably have been intended to protect the public, irrespective of whether it… [read post]
13 Apr 2018, 12:30 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. New on the podcast: the checkmate doctrine, the right to pre-indictment counsel, and an Uber antitrust action. Featuring special guest William C. Marra of Cooper & Kirk, who wields words like a blade and also literally owns a sword. Click here for iTunes. For years, a Texas electric utility company and its union feuded over the installation of automated smart meters; the company wanted them; the… [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 12:45 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. This week on the podcast: a deep dive into the D.C. Circuit featuring special guests Professor Aaron Nielson, a wanted "Anti-Administrativist" and Sage of the C.A.D.C.; and Cate Stetson, Hogan Lovells' legendary appellate litigator who is one of the D.C. Circuit's most frequent (and successful) litigators. Hear Aaron and Cate discuss what makes the D.C. Circuit unique and talk about… [read post]
30 Mar 2018, 12:40 pm
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. A central tenet of property rights is that owners can exclude others from their property; what's mine is mine, not yours. So, urges an IJ amicus brief, the Supreme Court should review a California court of appeals decision forbidding an owner from excluding the public from his beachfront property (unless he obtains a "development" permit) and requiring him to run an unprofitable business… [read post]
16 Mar 2018, 12:30 pm
Since 2009, Tennessee officials have levied nearly $100,000 in fines on African-style hair braiders—not for any health or sanitation violations but simply for operating without a license. The license, which takes 300 hours to obtain, creates real hardship for braiders and doesn't much benefit the public, so it's welcome news that a bill to repeal it is advancing in the Legislature. IJ Legislative Analyst Nick Sibilla has the story at Forbes.com. Man is convicted in 2004, sentenced to… [read post]
9 Mar 2018, 12:30 pm
Transgender man seeks to change his legal name (from Jane Doe to John Doe) but cannot because Indiana [read post]
26 Feb 2018, 10:00 am
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. New on the podcast: New York's donor disclosure requirements for nonprofits, "consenting to a search" post-SWAT raid, and license plate scanners. Click here for iTunes. NYC forbids individuals licensed to possess handguns in their homes from taking them outside the city, which means plaintiffs, who would like to practice and compete at firing ranges outside city limits, must borrow or… [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 10:30 am
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. The Eighth Amendment prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive fines, but does that protection apply in state court? The Indiana Supreme Court recently said no and allowed officials to take a man's $40,000 car, purchased with money the government admits was lawfully obtained, after he was convicted of a minor drug crime. This week, IJ asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case.… [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 11:00 am
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. Over at the estimable EconTalk podcast, IJ's own Dick Carpenter discusses bottleneckers, who agitate for occupational licensing and other regulations that make earning an honest living needlessly difficult. Click here to give it a listen. Five commercial truck drivers cited for safety violations sue the feds, whose trucker database includes the citations but not the subsequent acquittals and… [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 12:00 pm
Other topics include a Conversation with John Doar conducted by Professor Owen Fiss, Enforcement [read post]
22 Oct 2018, 6:55 pm
Without any publicly recorded objections, the justices kept on hold plans to depose Wilbur Ross, the [read post]
19 Mar 2025, 6:00 am
Ross Intelligence Inc.,1 Judge Stephanos Bibas of the U.S. [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm
KesselringReviews John Hudson, The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Volume II: 871–1216, [read post]
31 Jan 2019, 1:00 am
Ocasio-Cortez dancing in college and her response as a Congressman Chief Justice John Roberts [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 2:10 pm
It's Ross Douthat's first NYT column:As a candidate, Cheney would have doubtless been as disciplined [read post]
31 Jul 2018, 9:58 pm
” [John Kenneth Ross, Short Circuit on Potvin v. [read post]
5 Dec 2018, 5:54 am
Campaign Finance Florida: “Ross Spano Acknowledges Possible ‘Violation’ of Campaign [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 2:52 am
” [John K. Ross, “Short Circuit”, on Tennessee v. [read post]
