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Back to SearchShort 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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 months ago
Short Circuit 280 | Something’s Rotten in the State of Bivens
Scott Michelman of the ACLU-DC joins us to discuss the ins-and-outs of a recent fascinating (yet disappointing) ruling of the D.C. Circuit. Remember …
2 years, 11 months ago
Short Circuit 279 | Cops on the Beat
It’s hard to sue the police. But it’s even harder to sue a judge. Rob Johnson returns to tell us about an Eighth Circuit case where a suit against a …
2 years, 11 months ago
Short Circuit 278 | I’ll Take the Elevator
Who knew that is was so easy to defeat qualified immunity when you sue an elevator inspector? Wesley Hottot of IJ joins us this week to spread the go…
2 years, 11 months ago
Short Circuit 277 | More to Come
Short Circuit is delighted to welcome one of the “Founding Fathers” of #AppellateTwitter to our virtual studio, Sean Marotta. Sean tells the story of…
3 years ago
Short Circuit 276 | The Concentration of Powers
We all know about the separation of powers. But this week IJ attorney Jaba Tsitsuashvili introduces us to something else: the concentration of powers…
3 years ago
Short Circuit 275 | All Constitutional Law is Procedural Nonsense
IJ attorney Paul Avelar seizes the means of production (and the Short Circuit microphone) and hosts this week’s episode, live from IJ’s annual Law St…
3 years ago
Short Circuit 274 | 100 Years of Meyer v. Nebraska
June 4, 2023 marks exactly 100 years since the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Meyer v. Nebraska, where the Court ruled that it is unconstit…
3 years ago