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Back to SearchShort 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…
1 year, 4 months ago
Short Circuit 379 | Tariff Bazookas
With the recent major tariff rulings we had to pull in a major tariff expert, Scott Lincicome of the Cato Institute. Scott digs into the “shocking de…
1 year, 4 months ago
Short Circuit 378 | Come and Take It
Fans of truckers should enjoy this episode, although they may grow angry hearing about a truck stop that never was to be. Tahmineh Dehbozorgi of IJ t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Short Circuit 377 | Zen and the Art of the Nondelegation Doctrine
Sometimes a short ride goes a long way. Casey Mattox of Stand Together comes on to tell us how a dirt biker in Nevada may end up making some constitu…
1 year, 4 months ago
Short 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 a…
1 year, 5 months 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…
1 year, 5 months 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 D…
1 year, 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 immunit…
1 year, 5 months 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 jo…
1 year, 6 months 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 Washin…
1 year, 6 months ago