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Back to SearchShort 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 …
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 169 | The Duct Tape of Federal Law
If you’re not a major party candidate it can be really hard to get on the ballot. So hard it’s sometimes unconstitutional. Paul Sherman explains how …
5 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 168 | Suspicious Handshakes and Football Prayers
Can the police stop and frisk your person based on their “training and experience?” Not if that training and experience is simply that drug dealers l…
5 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 167 | Section 230 and a Drones Search
We get a little high-tech this week. Techdirt founder Mike Masnick joins us to explain how Section 230 actually works, and how it was somewhat unusua…
5 years, 2 months ago
Short Circuit 166 | To En Banc or Not to En Banc
The 10th Circuit just can’t make up its mind. You might say it doesn’t know a hawk from a handsaw. Listen to a tale from IJ attorney Jeff Redfern of …
5 years, 3 months ago
Short Circuit 165 | Orphaned Precedent
How much power does the CDC have during the pandemic? Surprisingly, that was not the issue before a district court considering the constitutionality …
5 years, 3 months ago
Short Circuit 164 | Bad Cop Records and Suspicionless Searches
New York police disciplinary records were a black box, until the state changed the law. Then the union sued to keep the lid on—but lost. We speak to …
5 years, 3 months ago
Short Circuit 163 | The Law of Johnny 5 Is Alive
For once living up to the 1980s-movie-sense of our name, we’re talking about robots. How should the law treat robots? What do we analogize to, the la…
5 years, 4 months ago