Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShort Circuit 389 | On Walden Fourth Amendment
It’s Sixth Circuit week on Short Circuit with a couple Sixth Circuit lawyers who clerked on the Sixth Circuit and practice law in Michigan. (Which is where? That’s right, in the Sixth Circuit.) David…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Short Circuit 388 | Crazy Fast Speeds
Did you know the feds can send a subpoena to social media companies to find out stuff about your accounts and also order the same companies not to tell you? Turns out it happens all the time. But the…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Short Circuit 387 | The Business of Baseball
On the heels of the trade deadline, Rob Johnson of IJ reports on some baseball news. But it doesn’t concern the latest in Major League Baseball. Instead, it’s about the business of baseball and how b…
Published on 5 months ago
Short Circuit 386 | Lehto’s License Plates
Steve Lehto of Lehto’s Law rejoins Short Circuit—and for the first time on a YouTube episode—to spread the common sense he delivers daily on his own show. Steve shares a recent opinion from the Kansa…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Short Circuit 385 | Pyramid Power
We look into the gray area between a multi-level-marketing venture, like Amway, and a “pyramid scheme.” Appellate attorney Kyle Singhal joins us to discuss a matter of his from the Sixth Circuit wher…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Short Circuit 384 | Metering Constitutional Rights
Can the government force you to only exercise a constitutional right once a month? Could it do that with speech? Or practicing religion? How about keeping and bearing arms? IJ’s Will Aronin asks that…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Short Circuit 383 | Rock ‘n’ Roll Yoga
Is speaking to a yoga class speech? The Ninth Circuit recently proclaimed that the answer to that question is actually “yes.” But before you turn away from this episode because it simply parrots Capt…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Short Circuit 382 | Beard Law
Who doesn’t love a nice beard? It seems the firefighters in Atlantic City. One of their employees wants to wear a beard because of his religion. He doesn’t actually fight fires as part of his job, bu…
Published on 6 months ago
Short Circuit 381 | Charo on the Tonight Show
We at the Institute for Justice are increasingly involved with combatting retaliation against free speech. Which is why we were highly interested to hear from Daniel Cragg and his recent win at the E…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Short Circuit 380 | Homicide by Bath
Is making someone file a form “in the public interest”? The Fifth Circuit took a look at that age-old question in a recent case regarding the FCC and its gathering of demographic data. What might see…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago