Search for: "John Ross"
Results 461 - 480
of 500
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
11 Jul 2025, 12:30 pm
[Colorado River abstention, Wilton-Brillhart abstention, and sua sponte shenanigans.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. What's so natural about rights? Well, a lot of our state constitutions actually call some rights "natural." And state courts consider all kinds of rights of the "natural" variety, from life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to the right to worship to the… [read post]
4 Jul 2025, 12:30 pm
John Doe then files a pseudonymous lawsuit against the FDIC, challenging its blanket ban on hiring felons [read post]
13 Jun 2025, 12:30 pm
[Discretionary lawn care, Agent Orange, and banished from South Georgia.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Victory! Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of an innocent Atlanta family, represented by IJ, whose home was mistakenly raided by an FBI SWAT team. The Court undismissed all five of the family's claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act and rejected a novel and atextual… [read post]
23 May 2025, 12:30 pm
[Helicopter accidents, nasty feuds, and serial lies.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Not in my backyard! In which IJ goes full NIMBY: IJ client Dalton Boley used to enjoy camping with his three little boys in the 10-acre woods immediately behind his house. That is, until he learned that Alabama game wardens have been spying on them without warrants. On multiple occasions, these armed agents have… [read post]
16 May 2025, 12:30 pm
[Unaccompanied kids, implied causes of action, and filming the police.] 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: Humboldt County, Calif. fines people millions of dollars for things they didn't do because it doesn't care if they are innocent. For instance, it fined IJ clients Corrine and Douglas Thomas over $1 mil a mere six days after they bought their home (with a clean title)… [read post]
11 Apr 2025, 1:08 pm
[White House press passes, Wikipedia edits, and same-sex weddings.] New on the Short Circuit podcast: We recorded an episode at our tenth anniversary show last week. Hear from Eugene Volokh and Raffi Melkonian about video dissents and one arbitration to rule them all. California assesses a tax on in-state hospitals that it uses to generate matching federal Medicaid funding and then distributes the funds as supplemental payments to hospitals treating Medicaid patients. The funds are… [read post]
5 Dec 2025, 12:30 pm
[A bag of cash, Senate confirmations, and removal for cause.] 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: You might think it's outrageous that a Dallas detective lied to get a bar owner indicted for fake crimes at the behest of the detective's part-time employer, a neighboring business that wanted the bar gone. But what's really outrageous is that in the Fifth… [read post]
7 Nov 2025, 12:30 pm
[Non-condensing furnaces, drag shows, and master accounts. ] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Friends, Indiana law requires prosecutors to produce detailed reports documenting how they use civil forfeiture. But we did a little sleuthing, and whoo boy, it turns out that the reports are riddled with errors. Indeed, nearly 30 percent of cases are going entirely unreported, a problem that is particularly… [read post]
31 Oct 2025, 12:30 pm
At SCOTUSblog, IJ's John Wrench tells a tale of white coats and black robes: How a 1927 eugenics-era [read post]
2 Jan 2026, 12:30 pm
[Flashing blue lights, veteran housing, and DEI trainings. ] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Papers, please. IJ Senior Attorney Anya Bidwell comments on the lack of accountability for federal police over at The New Republic, in Radley Balko's piece about the Trump Administration's immigration enforcement blitz. New on the Short Circuit podcast: Find out what it's like to litigate for… [read post]
9 Jan 2026, 12:30 pm
[Top Gun, official acts, and atrial fibrillation.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Hot dang! This week, the Arizona Supreme Court agreed to hear an IJ economic liberty case that asks whether the state constitution protects the right to earn an honest living free of unreasonable, arbitrary, or oppressive laws. (We say yes.) Click here to learn more about the case. Oh no! The Dept. of Homeland Security… [read post]
23 Jan 2026, 12:30 pm
[Sensitive places, reasonable arguments, and volcanic fiduciary relationships.] 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, Portland, Me. police sent SWAT to apprehend a teen suspected of stealing cologne and shoes from a house party, even though the teen had no history of violence or anti-police animus. But then, bad to worse, SWAT officers jumped out on the wrong kid, handcuffing him at… [read post]
30 Jan 2026, 12:30 pm
New on the Short Circuit podcast: Our John Wrench interviews some tip-top legal scholars with the latest [read post]
12 Feb 2016, 1:38 pm
Lauren Foreman and John Spink of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution report that Riverdale police [read post]
24 Aug 2016, 11:12 am
When Ars profiled the company in 2014, company CEO Ross McNutt said PSS was trying to work [read post]
9 May 2025, 12:30 pm
[Non-citizen soldiers, habeas runarounds, and all federal law.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. State courts often follow bad federal precedent in interpreting their own state constitutions. How best to litigate against this? Over at the Brennan Center's State Court Report, IJ's Anthony Sanders suggests that lawyers should make originalist arguments using their own states' history. Even… [read post]
2 May 2025, 12:30 pm
Over at The Dispatch, IJ attorney John Wrench invokes General Slushington and makes the case that the [read post]
25 Apr 2025, 12:30 pm
[Electronic monitoring, secret GPS trackers, and a speck in the recesses of interstellar space.] 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: In 1974, Congress added the law-enforcement proviso to the Federal Tort Claims Act to ensure that the victims of wrong-door raids by federal officers would have a legal remedy. On this episode, we talk with some folks who had a hand in… [read post]
18 Apr 2025, 12:42 pm
[A judge-on-judge benchslap, a pharmaceutical kickback, and a direct descendant of the Kings of France.] 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: The eternal return of a qualified immunity case plus the long shadow of Judge Bork's VHS rentals. Come for the D.C. Circuit smackdown of a NEPA challenge to a decade-long, ultra-voluminous environmental review that the court… [read post]
4 Apr 2025, 12:47 pm
[VHS rentals, true-crime documentaries, and IT techs in the jury room.] New on the Short Circuit podcast: Can an AI be an "author" under copyright law? Your summarist (who has never been an employment lawyer) didn't know that the Equal Protection Clause might constitutionalize protections against a hostile gov't work environment. So color me even more surprised that a drug-court judge's allegedly "creepy" conduct toward a court counselor wouldn't even… [read post]
