Institute for Justice
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
An empty whiskey bottle, a rat in the crosshairs, and the nightmares of HR managers
Shooting in a car, discrimination in the air, and injuries at sea.
Arkansas tooth picks, selective schools, and inconsistent travel plans.
Modest markups, shotgun pleadings, and the Kansas Two-Step.
Sensitive places, reasonable arguments, and volcanic fiduciary relationships.
Bad aim, conjugal visits, and a cavalier gun dealer.
Top Gun, official acts, and atrial fibrillation.
Flashing blue lights, veteran housing, and DEI trainings.
Citizen flag poles, mega-appeals, and land acknowledgments.
Horseracing integrity, beneficial owners, and bills of attainder.
Forbidden vehicle pursuits, forbidden hand-washing pics, and Epic injunctions.
A bag of cash, Senate confirmations, and removal for cause.
Debtors' prisons, evil schemes, and the Pottery Barn rule.
Lobstermen surveillance, semiquincentennial squabbling, and socking it to the Scotch Tape People.
Firework permits, intratribal smokes, and really just a whole lot of shootings and killings.
Non-condensing furnaces, drag shows, and master accounts.
Pill-pushing predictions, off-campus speech, and a crude insurrection.
Solar panels, campus protests, and not much due process.
Rebellion, bullet control, and vulgarity cloaked in euphemism.
SWAT raids, cats' paws, and Christian vegetarianism.
Qualified privileges, unequal conspiracies, and a file in hand.
Doping horses, DEI trainings, and working on a Saturday
A dogfighting legend, false positives, and 69 guns.
Big game hunts, Victorian London, and those trendy Trader Joe’s bags.
Predatory incursion, financial fraud, and taking your gun to a fandango.
A rescinded diploma, a brown seer stone, and a pointless waste of time.
Remote quorums, jetway robberies, and the beauty of our constitutional republic.
Cruise ships, sham interviews, and our nation's commitment to a government of laws.
Lethal pepper spray, soggy eggs, and high-end swimwear.
Miami vice, tactical dog bites, and the tantalizing takings clause.
A sovereign See, a safehouse, and an infinite number of pronouns.
Longboat Key condos, protective sweeps, and wrong-door raids.
Colorado River abstention, Wilton-Brillhart abstention, and sua sponte shenanigans.
Federal enclaves, false alarms, and pseudonymous lawsuits.
Classroom commandments, the FBI's Most Wanted, and a phone book artifice.
Hapless lawyers, police auditors, and Welsh laws.
Discretionary lawn care, Agent Orange, and banished from South Georgia.
Frigid cells, raw sewage in cells, and expressive activity on public beaches.
Book burning, hit pieces, and marijuana's historical pedigree.
Helicopter accidents, nasty feuds, and serial lies.
Unaccompanied kids, implied causes of action, and filming the police.
Non-citizen soldiers, habeas runarounds, and all federal law.
Group chats, monopolies, and corporate espionage.
Electronic monitoring, secret GPS trackers, and a speck in the recesses of interstellar space.
A judge-on-judge benchslap, a pharmaceutical kickback, and a direct descendant of the Kings of France.
White House press passes, Wikipedia edits, and same-sex weddings.
VHS rentals, true-crime documentaries, and IT techs in the jury room.
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