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Back to SearchShort Circuit 179 | Taking Bees with the Police Power
Something that is not the bee’s knees is when the county mosquito sprayers forget to tell you to cover up your bees so they don’t get murdered. When …
4 years, 6 months ago
Short Circuit 178 | First Amendment Home Design
If I express myself through designing a new house, is that expression protected by the First Amendment? Last week the Eleventh Circuit avoided that q…
4 years, 6 months ago
Short Circuit 177 | When Are Judges “Too Cool?”
How many pop culture references can a judge make in an opinion before we start to cringe? “Dean” of #AppellateTwitter Raffi Melkonian joins us to giv…
4 years, 6 months ago
Short Circuit 176 | Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?
There’s this mysterious word in English that courts love to talk about, the Notorious A-N-D. Does it, in fact, mean “and?” Or does it mean “or?” The …
4 years, 7 months ago
Short Circuit 175 | Tax Takings and Reservation Creation
Can the county foreclose on your house because you haven’t paid your taxes, and then just keep the rest of your equity? In Ohio, yeah, they can. That…
4 years, 7 months ago
Short Circuit 174 | The Right to “Bear” Arms
Second Amendment scholar David Kopel sits down with us to set the stage for a big issue we’ll hear a lot about over the next year: What “keep and bea…
4 years, 7 months ago
Short Circuit 173 | Public Accommodations and High Speed Snaps
Legal raconteur and writer David Lat joins us for some underneath-their-robes hijinks. David talks a bit about his new venture and his battle with CO…
4 years, 7 months ago
Short Circuit 172 | Confronting Cook County Corruption
What does Sir Walter Raleigh have to do with a Tennessee murder trial? You’ll learn from Rob Johnson, as he confronts his witness with a devastating …
4 years, 8 months ago
Short Circuit 171 | Should Originalists Party Like It’s 1868, not 1791?
On a special Short Circuit, professors Christopher Green and Evan Bernick join your host Anthony Sanders to examine one of the great questions of the…
4 years, 8 months ago
Short Circuit 170 | A Hot Mess and Seven Magic Words
What can a court say in 325 pages? So much that we don’t have much of a clue. Diana Simpson slices and dices the Fifth Circuit’s analysis of a challe…
4 years, 8 months ago