What is Short Circuit?
Short Circuit is your concise (and sometimes irreverent) source for important and interesting cases and legal stories you might otherwise have missed.
Launched by the Institute for Justice (IJ) in 2015, Short Circuit started off as a short weekly newsletter rounding up the most interesting developments in the federal circuit courts of appeal as well as a weekly podcast digging into a couple recent particularly noteworthy cases.
Today, as part of IJ’s Center for Judicial Engagement, and with the newsletter and flagship podcast still going strong, Short Circuit also includes our legal history documentary podcast Bound By Oath, now in its third season, and our monthly roundtable podcast Unpublished Opinions. We also hold live shows (contact us if you’re interested in hosting one) and other events. Wherever and whoever you are there’s plenty of options to get engaged.
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Bound By Oath
Neat Takings Tricks | Season 3, Ep. 13
The Fifth Amendment says that the government must pay just compensation when it takes private property for public use, a command that, regrettably, is often […]
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Short Circuit
Short Circuit 384 | Metering Constitutional Rights
Can the government force you to only exercise a constitutional right once a month? Could it do that with speech? Or practicing religion? How about […]
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Unpublished Opinions 16 | Rings of a Hoary Oak Tree
A new edition of everyone’s favorite legal grimoire has dropped, and John Wrench convenes Sam Gedge and Diana Simpson to ask the hard questions: Is […]
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Colorado River abstention, Wilton-Brillhart abstention, and sua sponte shenanigans.
What’s so natural about rights? Well, a lot of our state constitutions actually call some rights “natural.” And state courts consider all kinds of rights of the “natural” variety, from life, liberty, and the pursuit…
