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Short Circuit 181 | Mandatory Associations

Posted July 8, 2021

It’s not often that we get three different appellate opinions on the same issue in one week. But recently the Fifth Circuit (twice) and the Tenth...

Short Circuit 180 | A Fifth of Qualified Immunity

Posted July 2, 2021

The Fifth Circuit is not boring. In just one week they served up enough qualified immunity cases to fill an entire episode, and then some. Nicolas Riley...

Short Circuit 179 | Taking Bees with the Police Power

Posted June 24, 2021

Something that is not the bee’s knees is when the county mosquito sprayers forget to tell you to cover up your bees so they don’t get murdered....

Short Circuit 178 | First Amendment Home Design

Posted June 17, 2021

If I express myself through designing a new house, is that expression protected by the First Amendment? Last week the Eleventh Circuit avoided that...

Short Circuit 177 | When Are Judges “Too Cool?”

Posted June 11, 202100:41:34

How many pop culture references can a judge make in an opinion before we start to cringe? “Dean” of #AppellateTwitter Raffi Melkonian joins us to...