Episode Details

Can a city hold on to your car for three years for no reason? Unfortunately, the Sixth Circuit seems to think the answer is “yes,” although over a fiery dissent. This week Wesley Hottot presents Nichols v. Wayne County and the team muses about the application of a case from 1978 and whether it even applies in Detroit anymore. Also, Paul Sherman takes us into campaign season with a campaign through campaign finance (and administrative) law with CREW v. FEC. After the Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. FEC, nonprofits that are not generally required to disclose their donors began running political ads. A watchdog group sued the Federal Election Commission, alleging that federal law requires disclosure of donors to any group spending more than $250 on such ads and that the FEC is failing to enforce this requirement. And it won. Paul presents the case, but discusses whether it’s really a good idea to require disclosures of relatively small contributions in the “Google Age.”

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Transcript: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Short-Circuit-145-Transcript.pdf
Nichols v. Wayne County https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/20a0486n-06.pdf
CREW v. FEC https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/DCEFA4F3D6438109852585CB005860AC/$file/18-5261-1857631.pdf
Monell v. Department of Social Services https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/436/658/
Buckley v. Valeo, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/424/1/