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Short Circuit 151 | Lifetime Leases and Butterflies on Walls

Posted October 22, 2020

We don’t recommend converting apartments into condos in San Francisco. But if you do, it might be hard to bring a takings claim, as we find out why...

Short Circuit 150 | Vacation rentals, COVID orders, and Electoral College studies

Posted October 8, 2020

On October 16, 2020 the Center for Judicial Engagement is hosting a special online event, our forum on judicial engagement and the Pennsylvania Constitution....

Short Circuit 149 | Supreme Court Preview for Tar Heels

Posted October 2, 2020

For the fourth year in a row, the Institute for Justice has teamed up with the University of North Carolina Federalist Society Chapter to preview cases...

Short Circuit 148 | Are Apartments a Nuisance? Private Property and the Rise of Zoning

Posted September 17, 2020

In a special Short Circuit, Harvard Law Professor Molly Brady joins us to talk about an untold story from the rise of zoning law. A lot of the blame...

Short Circuit 147 | Off-premises signs and an on-premises subpoena

Posted September 10, 2020

Will former White House Counsel Don McGahn ever testify to the House Judiciary Committee? That partly depends on how you squint when reading the Declaratory...