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Back to SearchShort Circuit 231 | Focus on What Matters
A couple cases this week where federal courts, at least in part, paid attention to the right things. Joined by the leaders of IJ’s Project on Immunit…
3 years, 5 months ago
Short Circuit 230 | Immunities Denied and Federal Court for Trump Prosecution
Georgia criminal defense attorney Andrew Fleischman joins us to talk about a unicorn. Yes, the Eleventh Circuit recently found a state prosecutor was…
3 years, 5 months ago
Short Circuit 229 | Recording the Police
The First Amendment protects your right to record the police. Yes, we already knew that, said the Tenth Circuit. Um, you did? Dan Alban presents a ca…
3 years, 5 months ago
Short Circuit 228 | No Portable Signs
A town made it illegal to hold a sign. Anywhere. Really, just holding a sign is illegal. Sound like a First Amendment violation? That’s what we thoug…
3 years, 5 months ago
Short Circuit 227 | Salt Mines and Open Fields
Episode 227
Ever worked in a salt mine? It seems some non-union employees hadn’t either when their boss joked that they might be sent to one. That wasn’t funny t…
3 years, 6 months ago
Short Circuit 226 | Short Circuit Live Constitutional GPA
Recorded live at UCLA, we’re introducing a new study from the Institute for Justice: Constitutional G.P.A., is your Government Preventing Accountabil…
3 years, 6 months ago
Short Circuit 225 | Supreme School Choice Victory
On a special Short Circuit, we sit down with Michael Bindas, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice and lead attorney in Carson v. Makin. The…
3 years, 6 months ago
Episode 224 | Cameras on Poles Recording Everything
It’s just so easy these days to put a camera on a pole and record everything that happens in someone’s front yard for eight months. So easy that we k…
3 years, 6 months ago
Short Circuit 223 | Clerks and Harassment
We discuss a couple legal immunities, one listeners will be familiar with and one that’s pretty unknown. The second is being addressed by our special…
3 years, 7 months ago
Short Circuit 222 | Live at IJ’s Law Student Conference
Recording in front of a live audience at the 2022 Institute for Justice’s Law Student Conference, we look at some of the best, and some of the worst,…
3 years, 7 months ago