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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Lies, damned lies, and statutes of limitations.
John Ross | 3.6.2026 3:30 PM
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
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The head of NYC schools' food services division co-owns a beef-importing business with executives from a company that supplies the schools with chicken. Second Circuit (unpublished): And since the chicken company executives upped his ownership stake in the beef business in exchange for letting some suspect chicken slide, lots of convictions on lots of counts affirmed all around. Does it violate the Constitution to prohibit a guy who wasn't forthcoming about his criminal arrests from obtaining a concealed carry license? Second Circuit: Who can say? He sued the New York state judge who denied his application, and judges have absolute immunity for adjudicating applications. Allegation: Wheeling, W.V. officers want to arrest Ashley Marie Cooper, but—yikes!—obtain arrest warrant for Ashley Anna Cooper, who has a different eye color, different height, different weight, different SSN, different address, etc. (Ashley Anna is indeed arrested.) District court: But the deadline to file suit is one year, and you took 23 months. Case dismissed! Fourth Circuit: Reversed. We say again that the SOL for all 1983 claims in W.V. is two years. Discharged employee's contract gives her only 180 days to file any kind of employment discrimination lawsuit, even though both Title VII and the ADEA would have given her at least 270. She files her lawsuit 196 days after being fired. Fourth Circuit:........© Reason.com
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