Short Circuit
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You like law? We've got law. Check out our concise & fun-to-read summaries of circuit court opinions, listen to our (sometimes irreverent) podcasts, & more. A project of the Center for Judicial Engagement at the Institute for Justice
Our Latest Podcast: Don't Forget Your Receipt
With Riley Grace Borden & Marco Vasquez!
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With Riley Grace Borden & Marco Vasquez!
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January 16, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Our Latest Podcast: Don't Forget Your Receipt
With Riley Grace Borden & Marco Vasquez!
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With Riley Grace Borden & Marco Vasquez!
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Our Latest Podcast: Joan of Arc and Qualified Immunity
With @detahmineh.bsky.social & Benjamin Marsh!
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With @detahmineh.bsky.social & Benjamin Marsh!
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Joan of Arc and Qualified Immunity | Short Circuit 410
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January 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Our Latest Podcast: Joan of Arc and Qualified Immunity
With @detahmineh.bsky.social & Benjamin Marsh!
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With @detahmineh.bsky.social & Benjamin Marsh!
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Our Latest Newsletter: Flashing blue lights, veteran housing, and DEI trainings.
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Flashing blue lights, veteran housing, and DEI trainings. - Institute for Justice
Papers, please. IJ Senior Attorney Anya Bidwell comments on the lack of accountability for federal police over at The New Republic, in Radley Balko’s piece […]
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January 2, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Our Latest Newsletter: Flashing blue lights, veteran housing, and DEI trainings.
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Our Latest Podcast: Obviously Unconstitutional
With @ecruikshank.bsky.social of @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social and Sam Weiss of @rightsbehind.bsky.social!
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With @ecruikshank.bsky.social of @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social and Sam Weiss of @rightsbehind.bsky.social!
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January 2, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Our Latest Podcast: Obviously Unconstitutional
With @ecruikshank.bsky.social of @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social and Sam Weiss of @rightsbehind.bsky.social!
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With @ecruikshank.bsky.social of @icapgeorgetown.bsky.social and Sam Weiss of @rightsbehind.bsky.social!
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January 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Our Latest Newsletter: Citizen flag poles, mega-appeals, and land acknowledgments.
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Citizen flag poles, mega-appeals, and land acknowledgments. - Institute for Justice
New cert petition: Starting in 2011, then-16-year-old Hamdi Mohamud spent over two years in prison on bogus charges fabricated by a St. Paul police officer. […]
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December 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Our Latest Newsletter: Citizen flag poles, mega-appeals, and land acknowledgments.
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Our Latest Podcast: Property owners can't go on their own beach during the pandemic
With Diana Simpson & An Altik!
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With Diana Simpson & An Altik!
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Property owners cannot go on their own beach during COVID | Short Circuit 408
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December 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Our Latest Podcast: Property owners can't go on their own beach during the pandemic
With Diana Simpson & An Altik!
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With Diana Simpson & An Altik!
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Our Latest Newsletter: Horseracing integrity, beneficial owners, and bills of attainder.
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Horseracing integrity, beneficial owners, and bills of attainder. - Institute for Justice
New cert petition: In 2014, federal task force officers beat up an innocent college student whom they’d mistaken for a suspect. But the Sixth Circuit […]
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December 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Our Latest Newsletter: Horseracing integrity, beneficial owners, and bills of attainder.
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Our Latest Podcast: Master Thespians.
How does a theater background help make one a better lawyer? We talk to former IJ Clinic Assistant Director James Joseph & IJ Deputy Director of Litigation Bob McNamara.
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How does a theater background help make one a better lawyer? We talk to former IJ Clinic Assistant Director James Joseph & IJ Deputy Director of Litigation Bob McNamara.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Our Latest Podcast: Master Thespians.
How does a theater background help make one a better lawyer? We talk to former IJ Clinic Assistant Director James Joseph & IJ Deputy Director of Litigation Bob McNamara.
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How does a theater background help make one a better lawyer? We talk to former IJ Clinic Assistant Director James Joseph & IJ Deputy Director of Litigation Bob McNamara.
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The latest episode of Unpublished Opinions, our roundtable podcast! Anya Bidwell, Patrick Jaicomo & John Wrench ruminate on Founders vs. founding documents, complexities of constitutional change, coverage of SCOTUS, and more!
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Unpublished Opinions 21 | An Appeal to Heaven - Institute for Justice
As the year’s shortest day draws near, John Wrench is joined by Patrick Jaicomo and Anya Bidwell to discuss taking the Founders’ legacies more seriously; […]
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December 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The latest episode of Unpublished Opinions, our roundtable podcast! Anya Bidwell, Patrick Jaicomo & John Wrench ruminate on Founders vs. founding documents, complexities of constitutional change, coverage of SCOTUS, and more!
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Our Latest Podcast: NCAA Antitrust: Did an athlete's school transfer hurt his eligibility?
With Dan Alban & McCarley Maddock!
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With Dan Alban & McCarley Maddock!
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Feds seize over half a million bucks and never give a reason! | Short Circuit 406
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December 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Our Latest Podcast: NCAA Antitrust: Did an athlete's school transfer hurt his eligibility?
With Dan Alban & McCarley Maddock!
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With Dan Alban & McCarley Maddock!
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Many of you have gotten to know my Dad through my stories about his life.
Yesterday, he passed away after a terrible heart attack here at home. We were with him at the end. All of us our devastated by the loss of a truly remarkable man.
For now, here he is at his happiest - with me at SCOTUS.
Yesterday, he passed away after a terrible heart attack here at home. We were with him at the end. All of us our devastated by the loss of a truly remarkable man.
For now, here he is at his happiest - with me at SCOTUS.
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Our Latest Newsletter: A bag of cash, Senate confirmations, and removal for cause.
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A bag of cash, Senate confirmations, and removal for cause. - Institute for Justice
New cert petition: You might think it’s outrageous that a Dallas detective lied to get a bar owner indicted for fake crimes at the behest of […]
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December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Our Latest Newsletter: A bag of cash, Senate confirmations, and removal for cause.
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Our Latest Podcast: Judges as Employers.
With @alizashatzman.bsky.social & @katrinmarquez.bsky.social!
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With @alizashatzman.bsky.social & @katrinmarquez.bsky.social!
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Short Circuit 405 | Judges as Employers - Institute for Justice
What happens if you sue your employer and your boss’s boss is a federal judge? It’s kind of complicated. Aliza Shatzman of the Legal Accountability […]
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December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Our Latest Podcast: Judges as Employers.
With @alizashatzman.bsky.social & @katrinmarquez.bsky.social!
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With @alizashatzman.bsky.social & @katrinmarquez.bsky.social!
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A Permit to Pray? | Short Circuit 404
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November 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Our Latest Newsletter: Debtors’ prisons, evil schemes, and the Pottery Barn rule.
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Debtors' prisons, evil schemes, and the Pottery Barn rule. - Institute for Justice
Lawyers! IJ is hiring, including this exciting new gig: Assistant General Counsel. If you’re an experienced attorney who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys tackling […]
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November 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Our Latest Newsletter: Debtors’ prisons, evil schemes, and the Pottery Barn rule.
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Lobstermen surveillance, semiquincentennial squabbling, and socking it to the Scotch Tape People.
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Lobstermen surveillance, semiquincentennial squabbling, and socking it to the Scotch Tape People. - Institute for Justice
Webinar: In thousands of communities across the country, automatic license plate readers are surveilling people’s movements on a massive scale. A sensible law-enforcement tool? Or […]
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November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Lobstermen surveillance, semiquincentennial squabbling, and socking it to the Scotch Tape People.
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Our Latest Podcast: Strict Liability for Civil Rights Violations
Anya Bidwell interviews @gould.usc.edu's @matteogodi.bsky.social on his new article arguing that Section 1983 should be seen as a strict liability tort.
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Anya Bidwell interviews @gould.usc.edu's @matteogodi.bsky.social on his new article arguing that Section 1983 should be seen as a strict liability tort.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Our Latest Podcast: Strict Liability for Civil Rights Violations
Anya Bidwell interviews @gould.usc.edu's @matteogodi.bsky.social on his new article arguing that Section 1983 should be seen as a strict liability tort.
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Anya Bidwell interviews @gould.usc.edu's @matteogodi.bsky.social on his new article arguing that Section 1983 should be seen as a strict liability tort.
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It's the latest Unpublished Opinions! John Wrench, Josh Windham & Sam Gedge ponder what inspires them to do law (the answers include a surprising number of Dodecanese Islands references) & what advice they have for young lawyers. And so much more!
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Unpublished Opinions 20 | And Fascism - Institute for Justice
Your IJ roundtable is back with hot takes and tepid reflection. John Wrench, joined by Sam Gedge and Josh Windham, share tips on how to […]
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November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's the latest Unpublished Opinions! John Wrench, Josh Windham & Sam Gedge ponder what inspires them to do law (the answers include a surprising number of Dodecanese Islands references) & what advice they have for young lawyers. And so much more!
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Our Latest Newsletter: Firework permits, intratribal smokes, and really just a whole lot of shootings and killings.
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Firework permits, intratribal smokes, and really just a whole lot of shootings and killings. - Institute for Justice
In 2023, police in Marion, Kan.—armed with bogus warrants—raided the offices of a local newspaper, the home of the newspaper owner (a nonagenarian who died […]
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November 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Our Latest Newsletter: Firework permits, intratribal smokes, and really just a whole lot of shootings and killings.
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Our Latest Podcast: Moonshine argument leads to years of jail without trial.
With Reb Masel & Bobbi Taylor!
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With Reb Masel & Bobbi Taylor!
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Moonshine argument leads to years of jail without trial | Short Circuit 402 w/ @RebuttalPod
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November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Our Latest Podcast: Moonshine argument leads to years of jail without trial.
With Reb Masel & Bobbi Taylor!
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With Reb Masel & Bobbi Taylor!
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Our Latest Newsletter: Non-condensing furnaces, drag shows, and master accounts.
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Non-condensing furnaces, drag shows, and master accounts. - Institute for Justice
Friends, Indiana law requires prosecutors to produce detailed reports documenting how they use civil forfeiture. But we did a little sleuthing, and whoo boy, it […]
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November 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Our Latest Newsletter: Non-condensing furnaces, drag shows, and master accounts.
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Our Latest Podcast: Government Fails Rational Basis Test for Once.
With Arif Panju & Michael Pena!
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With Arif Panju & Michael Pena!
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November 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Our Latest Podcast: Government Fails Rational Basis Test for Once.
With Arif Panju & Michael Pena!
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With Arif Panju & Michael Pena!
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Our Latest Newsletter: Pill-pushing predictions, off-campus speech, and a crude insurrection.
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Pill-pushing predictions, off-campus speech, and a crude insurrection. - Institute for Justice
At SCOTUSblog, IJ’s John Wrench tells a tale of white coats and black robes: How a 1927 eugenics-era decision warns against swapping judicial scrutiny for […]
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October 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Our Latest Newsletter: Pill-pushing predictions, off-campus speech, and a crude insurrection.
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