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Short Circuit 196 | 50 Years of “Our Federalism”

Posted November 12, 2021

In addition to some other civil rights anniversaries, 2021 marks 50 years since the Supreme Court decided Younger v. Harris. There, the Court made it...

Short Circuit 195 | Pride and Prejudice in Prison

Posted October 28, 2021

What’s too hot a novel for a prisoner? Apparently “Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition” meets that standard. The Eighth Circuit dug...

Short Circuit 194 | Arboreal Takings and the Sidewalks of New York

Posted October 21, 2021

How can the government encourage us to keep our trees? In all kinds of ways, but not through mandating the replanting of trees regardless of the landowner’s...

Short Circuit 193 | Hamilton Singing Fire in a Crowded Theater

Posted October 15, 2021

What did Alexander Hamilton tell the Marquis de Lafayette on July 21, 1780? Probably not that his letter would be the subject of a civil forfeiture...

Short Circuit 192 | Standing Up for a Dollar

Posted October 8, 202100:31:41

It’s taken five years, but the clients of IJ senior attorney Paul Avelar can now finally get their day in court thanks to a ruling in the Ninth Circuit....