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28 Mar 2025, 1:27 pm
[Facsimile fun, federal funding freezes, and fateful photos.] 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, it is almost entirely illegal to advertise medical marijuana in Mississippi even though the state has legalized the industry. And yet! The First Amendment protects truthful speech that proposes a legal commercial transaction, so we're asking the Supreme Court to step in and… [read post]
28 Nov 2025, 12:30 pm
[Debtors' prisons, evil schemes, and the Pottery Barn rule.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Lawyers! IJ is hiring, including this exciting new gig: Assistant General Counsel. If you're an experienced attorney who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys tackling a wide variety of legal questions, and wants your work to support a powerful mission, this could be the perfect fit. New on the… [read post]
21 Nov 2025, 12:30 pm
[Lobstermen surveillance, semiquincentennial squabbling, and socking it to the Scotch Tape People.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Webinar: In thousands of communities across the country, automatic license plate readers are surveilling people's movements on a massive scale. A sensible law-enforcement tool? Or an insane violation of personal privacy? We've put together a crack team of… [read post]
14 Nov 2025, 12:30 pm
[Firework permits, intratribal smokes, and really just a whole lot of shootings and killings.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. In 2023, police in Marion, Kan.—armed with bogus warrants—raided the offices of a local newspaper, the home of the newspaper owner (a nonagenarian who died of a heart attack the following day), and the home of a city councilwoman who'd been critical of the… [read post]
8 Aug 2025, 7:30 pm
[Lethal pepper spray, soggy eggs, and high-end swimwear.] 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 March, the Eighth Circuit created a circuit split over how to calculate the just compensation owed to property owners when private companies condemn their land for natural gas pipelines. According to every other court, state-law rules govern property, so private companies have to pay you… [read post]
18 Jul 2025, 12:30 pm
[Longboat Key condos, protective sweeps, and wrong-door raids.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. CA7 friends: The Short Circuit team is heading to downtown Chicago on Sunday, August 17 for a live recording of the podcast on the eve of the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference. Come watch Sarah Konsky of UChicago Law and Christopher Keleher of Keleher Appellate Law hash things out with us. Click here to… [read post]
6 Jun 2025, 12:30 pm
[Frigid cells, raw sewage in cells, and expressive activity on public beaches.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Victory! Five years ago, a SWAT team blew up Vicki Baker's house in an attempt to apprehend a fugitive. But, sad news, last year SCOTUS declined to take up the question of whether destroying an innocent person's house is a Fifth Amendment taking requiring just compensation. (Two… [read post]
30 May 2025, 12:30 pm
[Book burning, hit pieces, and marijuana's historical pedigree.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Call for papers: Scholars, next year IJ's Center for Judicial Engagement is going to celebrate and confer upon "The Other Declarations of 1776." Accordingly, we invite papers on the history, meaning, and impact of state declarations of rights from 1776. It's going to be a blast.… [read post]
19 Dec 2025, 12:30 pm
[Horseracing integrity, beneficial owners, and bills of attainder. ] 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 2014, federal task force officers beat up an innocent college student whom they'd mistaken for a suspect. But the Sixth Circuit has twice ruled that the case, which has never gotten to a judgment, cannot proceed because of the Federal Tort Claims Act's judgment bar.… [read post]
26 Dec 2025, 12:30 pm
[Citizen flag poles, mega-appeals, and land acknowledgments.] 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: Starting in 2011, then-16-year-old Hamdi Mohamud spent over two years in prison on bogus charges fabricated by a St. Paul police officer. Which is a bang-on Fourth Amendment violation, but the Eighth Circuit has twice held Hamdi has no cause of action because the officer (still employed and… [read post]
12 Dec 2025, 12:30 pm
[Forbidden vehicle pursuits, forbidden hand-washing pics, and Epic injunctions.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Neat: IJ's own Dan Alban is a featured guest on the latest episode of the Collateral Damage podcast, talking the early history of civil forfeiture. New on the Short Circuit podcast: More civil forfeiture fun. Feds seize over half a million big ones, hold on to it for three years, never… [read post]
16 Jan 2026, 12:30 pm
[Bad aim, conjugal visits, and a cavalier gun dealer.] Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Hot dang! Today, the Michigan Supreme Court agreed to hear an IJ case of keen interest to state constitutional mavens: whether there's an implied cause of action to bring constitutional-tort claims against local governments and local officials who behave very, very poorly. (We say yes.) And speaking of state… [read post]
31 Mar 2013, 6:06 am
John takes Mary to Ephesus. Prof. Robin Jensen at Vanderbilt University. Mary. [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 5:05 pm
The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edward's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal [read post]
2 Jan 2013, 6:34 pm
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 7:59 am
Ross E. Davies and Craig D. [read post]
2 Jan 2013, 11:13 am
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and [read post]
18 Apr 2017, 1:01 am
journalism, tells Jackson’s story, juxtaposing it to the story of the leader of the Cherokee people, John [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 6:07 am
The Supreme Court yesterday did not find the citizenship question that Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 12:00 am
Other topics include a Conversation with John Doar conducted by Professor Owen Fiss, Enforcement [read post]
