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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
Flying saucers, voodoo dolls, and ancient plagues.
John Ross | 10.30.2026 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.
New on the Short Circuit podcast: It's our biannual election law special! Anonymous speech! The Founders and pamphlets! Motor voter! Purcell! Prefilling ballots! Vote early! Vote often!
New on the Beyond the Brief podcast: Automated license plate readers are a lot of things, but one thing they definitely are is great tool for stalking. Hoo boy!
D.C. Circuit (unpublished): No need to comment on the denial of this guy's latest request for compassionate release from a well-below-guidelines sentence for pimping minors. J. Walker, concurring: I have comments. Rather than provide documents through discovery, the feds now direct people in DHS proceedings to file FOIA requests. Their lawyers sue, claiming that this procedure is too slow and the responses often incomplete. First Circuit: If the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers, the second is deny standing to those who remain. Uber driver passes six field sobriety tests, and, after he's arrested anyway, his blood tests come back negative for intoxicants. So maybe he was telling the truth about pulling over for a nap while business was slow? Brookhaven, Penn. officer (weeks later): No, I'm filing charges for DUI. Third Circuit (unpublished): Could be false arrest and abuse of process. No qualified immunity. To a jury this must go. In 2020, a disgruntled lawyer murdered the son of a federal district judge. Most states responded with laws that restrict addresses disclosure for........© Reason.com
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