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Back to SearchShort Circuit 376 | Murder Mysteries
Two federal appellate opinions involving a murder and whether justice was served. First, IJ’s Dan Alban reports on a Sixth Circuit case where a man alleges he was wrongfully accused and spent seven y…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Short Circuit 375 | Unsympathetic Clients
Constitutional rights protect everyone, even people we might not be terribly fond of. This week we discuss two defendants who perhaps don’t deserve a lot of sympathy but nevertheless had their rights…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Short Circuit 374 | Content-Based Dancing
All kinds of constitutional goodies this week, from sovereign immunity to the First Amendment right to dance. But we begin with our annual Kentucky Derby preview from IJ’s Kentucky boy, Brian Morris.…
Published on 5 months ago
Short Circuit 373 | Live from Denver Law!
Short Circuit went mile high for a live show before the students at Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver. The focus was qualified immunity. That’s because Colorado led the way with qualif…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Short Circuit 372 | VHS Privacy
An old friend returns to Short Circuit, but it’s not a guest. It’s a case, Villarreal v. City of Laredo, where police retaliated against a citizen journalist. We’ve talked about the matter a few time…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Short Circuit 371 | Ten Years of Short Circuit
Last week the Short Circuit staff celebrated ten years of our inexhaustive coverage of the federal courts of appeals. At the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. we welcomed about 150 of our closest fr…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Short Circuit 370 | Humans Only in the Copyright Office
Bad news for our AI listeners this week. The D.C. Circuit ruled that you cannot be the “author” of a copyrighted work. Only humans get that perk. Dan Knepper of IJ comes by to explain this latest vic…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Short Circuit 369 | Substantive Due Process, The Podcast
Most weeks we summarize two, sometimes three, cases from the federal courts of appeals. This week we provide to you free of charge (as always) one, single, case. But, hang on, it has four opinions! I…
Published on 6 months ago
Short Circuit 368 | Flipping the Bird
Is stretching out one’s middle finger at the police protected by the First Amendment? And whether it is or not, can the police trump up charges and assault someone who flips that bird? We dig into th…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Short Circuit 367 | The Police Power
Often in old constitutional cases you see judges of yonder years invoking this mysterious substance called “the police power.” It’s something that has fallen out of a lot of our constitutional conver…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago