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Back to SearchShort Circuit 450 | Cocaine in the Curtilage
If you’ve ever seen the 1971 flick “The French Connection” you may know a bit about hiding illegal drugs inside the bodies of cars. Someone else had …
9 hours ago
Short Circuit 449 | Supreme Court Preview
Our annual Supreme Court term preview, this year from Wake Forest Law and released today, First Monday, the first day of the Supreme Court’s new term…
1 week, 4 days ago
Short Circuit 448 | Are Prediction Markets Legal?
We’ve all seen the ads for prediction markets, like Kalshi, and some of us have even placed bets with them. But are they actually “bets”? That is, ar…
2 weeks ago
Short Circuit 447 | How Constitutional Are Your Claims?
We focus on a district court case that has appellate court explanatory power. As our special guest Professor Robert Steinbuch says, if you reside in …
3 weeks ago
Short Circuit 446 | SWAT Teams at the Supreme Court
Say a gaggle of police with military-grade toys fire a boatload of tear gas into a home and then run in and break a bunch of stuff, all the while loo…
4 weeks ago
Short Circuit 445 | Crazytown
Time for The Big One. So many have so many takes on the Ninth Circuit that, as part of our #12Months12Circuits series, we at IJ had to add our own. I…
1 month ago
Short Circuit 444 | Recording the Police with Facebook Immunity
Another circuit recognizes a there’s a First Amendment right to record the police. In this case, a “First Amendment auditor” stood on a public sidewa…
1 month, 1 week ago
Short Circuit 443 | Irreparable Speech Harms
In our #12Months12Circuits series a nation turns its lonely eyes to the heartland. The true middle of America. The Eighth Circuit. We’re joined by tr…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Short Circuit 442 | Free Speech Died Here, Ask Me How
Tragedy and comedy, from the Fifth Circuit and then from the Tenth. First, Patrick Jaicomo of IJ describes how the police in Laredo, Texas mistakenly…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Short Circuit 441 | Rights for Listeners
We often hear of the right to speak. But what about the right to listen? The Ninth Circuit just reaffirmed that listeners have First Amendment rights…
2 months ago