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Back to SearchShort Circuit 241 | Pretext for a Traffic Stop
The Supreme Court has said that once the police find a reason to pull you over, they can pull you over—even if that’s not at all why they actually wa…
3 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 240 | Live at Columbia Law!
Enjoy some intra-Ivy League ribbing with two Yale grads talking law and clerkships from deep inside New York’s oldest university. Short Circuit welco…
3 years, 3 months ago
Short Circuit 239 | SCOTUS Preview Live from UNC
What’s new in OT22? Quite a bit, it turns out. This is our sixth annual Short Circuit Live Supreme Court Preview from the University of North Carolin…
3 years, 3 months ago
Short Circuit 238 | Dude, Where’s My Passport?
If a doctor says a prisoner needs to take his medication, and you’re a prison guard, you should give the prisoner his medication. A number of prison …
3 years, 3 months ago
Short Circuit 237 | Live at the University of Montana
It’s the first Big Sky Short Circuit! Recorded in front of students at the University of Montana School of Law, we examine three cases from the Monta…
3 years, 3 months ago
Short Circuit 236 | Constitutions and Common Law
When you sue the government for violating your rights do you first need the government’s permission? Unfortunately, the answer is usually “yes.” We l…
3 years, 4 months ago
Short Circuit 235 | Smelly Short-Term Rental Laws
We all know that guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days, But what about short-term rental ordinances? We look at a pair of regulations fr…
3 years, 4 months ago
Short Circuit 234 | Treaties With Tribes
Do you know your Indian Law from your Tribal Law? If not, Minnesota appellate attorney Scott Flaherty joins us to discuss a recent Seventh Circuit ca…
3 years, 4 months ago
Short Circuit 233 | Frozen Lawns and Nashville Blues
Property rights leads the way this week, with a little bit of intervention thrown in. Paul Avelar of IJ joins us to present a Sixth Circuit case wher…
3 years, 4 months ago
Short Circuit 232 | Abolish the Zoning
We welcome Nolan Gray on this week, author of the new book Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. Nolan is a city pla…
3 years, 5 months ago