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Short Circuit 373 | Live from Denver Law!

Posted April 25, 2025 • 00:43:41

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....

Short Circuit 372 | VHS Privacy

Posted April 18, 2025 • 00:55:29

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...

Short Circuit 371 | Ten Years of Short Circuit

Posted April 11, 2025 • 00:32:47

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,...

Short Circuit 370 | Humans Only in the Copyright Office

Posted April 4, 2025 • 00:44:54

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....

Short Circuit 369 | Substantive Due Process, The Podcast

Posted March 28, 2025 • 00:47:42

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,...