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Back to SearchShort Circuit 290 | Supreme Court Preview at UNC!
For the 7th year in a row Short Circuit travels to the University of North Carolina School of Law to preview the upcoming Supreme Court term, hosted …
2 years, 3 months ago
Short Circuit 289 | Property Rights FTW
We celebrate, and dig into, two victories for property rights this week—both in IJ cases! First, IJ’s Wesley Hottot discusses the Sixth Circuit’s opi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Short Circuit 288 | Nondelegating Warrants
Two old favorites this week: The nondelegation doctrine and the phrase “come back with a warrant.” And both from the culturally varied Sixth Circuit.…
2 years, 4 months ago
Short Circuit 287 | Where the Sidewalk Ends
The members of the Nashville City Council are apparently big fans of sidewalks to nowhere. In order for property owners to get a permit they have to …
2 years, 4 months ago
Short Circuit 286 | Totally Noncontroversial Issues
We wade into a hotly contested subject this week: standing law under Article III of the U.S. Constitution. The cases by which we address that subject…
2 years, 4 months ago
Short Circuit 285 | Searching for Something
A whole lot of searching going on this week. First, Scott Regan of IJ reports on a Ninth Circuit opinion involving, among other things, an iCloud acc…
2 years, 4 months ago
Short Circuit 284 | Betting the Election
Ari Bargil of IJ visits the Short Circuit virtual studio to take a bet. Or, rather, to tell us why some of us can keep taking bets—for now. The Fifth…
2 years, 5 months ago
Short Circuit 283 | Pennies at a Time
If someone sends you an unsolicited text message are you “injured”? In a constitutional sense, that is. Bob Belden swoops back to the podcast to expl…
2 years, 5 months ago
Short Circuit 282 | Sexy Cops and Decades of Deference
We swing from one legal extreme to another this week. From the First Amendment protecting street entertainers in Vegas on the one hand to deference t…
2 years, 5 months ago
Short Circuit 281 | Bosom Buddies
We talk with a couple remarkable women who achieved something pretty remarkable for some other remarkable women in Georgia: Had the state supreme cou…
2 years, 5 months ago