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Back to SearchShort Circuit 182 | Putting the Protection in “Equal Protection”
Today we think of the Equal Protection Clause as requiring equal treatment of the laws. But in addition to anything else it covers, at its core it’s …
4 years, 11 months ago
Short Circuit 181 | Mandatory Associations
It’s not often that we get three different appellate opinions on the same issue in one week. But recently the Fifth Circuit (twice) and the Tenth han…
4 years, 11 months ago
Short Circuit 180 | A Fifth of Qualified Immunity
The Fifth Circuit is not boring. In just one week they served up enough qualified immunity cases to fill an entire episode, and then some. Nicolas Ri…
4 years, 11 months ago
Short 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, 11 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…
5 years 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…
5 years 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 …
5 years 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…
5 years 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month ago