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Back to SearchEpisode 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…
4 years 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…
4 years 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,…
4 years ago
Short Circuit 221 | The Big Mac
A couple headline-grabbing, government-thumping constitutional-heavyweight cases coming at you this week. First, Rob Johnson explains how he filed a …
4 years ago
Short Circuit 220 | Timing Is Everything
When is a case over? As you’ll learn, that depends on a lot of weird stuff. IJ attorney Will Aronin walks us through the Ninth Circuit’s recent decis…
4 years, 1 month ago
Short Circuit 219 | Threading the Federal Courts
Short Circuit is proud to present to you Professor Marin Levy of Duke University School of Law. She is a top scholar on the federal judiciary, includ…
4 years, 1 month ago
Short Circuit 218 | Because the Supreme Court Did Some Things It Did
A couple issues near-and-dear to many of your hearts this week: Money and Facebook. First, if you win a case against the government are you a “prevai…
4 years, 1 month ago
Short Circuit 217 | Hunting for Free Speech Truffles
It’s a First Amendment fiesta at Short Circuit this week! Tori Clark explains how in the Eighth Circuit it’s hard to sue the government to protect yo…
4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 216 | Sovereign Immunity and NIMBY Neighbors
Suing the United States government is really hard. So hard that someone’s family might not get to even if the government is at fault for that person …
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 215 | You Say Habeas I Say Mandamus
We focus in on two Latin words this week: habeas and mandamus. Both usually mean “you lose.” But things somehow turned out differently in the Fourth …
4 years, 2 months ago