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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
Fabricated evidence, terminated grants, and taxes on jets.
John Ross | 5.29.2026 3:53 PM
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
Friends, the procedural and legal obstacles to holding federal officers accountable in court for violating people's rights are nothing to sniff at. But if you want a whiff, we have it all here in this handy flowchart.
New on the Bound By Oath podcast: We mess with Texas, telling the story of Pullman abstention and Justice Frankfurter's introduction of federalism to fed courts.
New on the Short Circuit podcast: We go stateless in Seattle with a visit to the CHOP zone and explore the history of forced Native American reeducation.
D.C. Circuit (unpublished): We're not saying these two IRS employees didn't fabricate evidence, we're saying there's nothing you can do about it (Constitution-wise) if they did. On at least 181 occasions, Massachusetts state police secretly and warrantlessly record phone conversations and then bring criminal charges against people involved. The recordings are not disclosed to prosecutors (or defendants). District court: That might violate the Constitution. First Circuit: Though the police declined to say that they have stopped doing this, these plaintiffs haven't shown they're likely to be secretly recorded and charged again in the future. They lack standing to seek an injunction. As the COVID-19 pandemic started to abate, the U.S. District Court for the Virgin Islands resumed in-person hearings, with some restrictions. In one such instance, drug traffickers who go by "Bogus" and "Crumbull" challenge their convictions, arguing that the exclusion of observers from the courtroom during parts of the opening and later portions of the trial violated their right to a public trial. The government argues the exclusions were trivial, since the trial was remotely viewable from an........© Reason.com
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