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Episode 194: Arboreal Takings and the Sidewalks of New York

WEEK OF October 21, 2021

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Episode 193: Hamilton Singing Fire in a Crowded Theater

WEEK OF October 15, 2021

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Episode 192: Standing Up for a Dollar

WEEK OF October 8, 2021

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Short Circuit 191: Judicial Activism for Reals

WEEK OF October 1, 2021

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Episode 190: A Crime a Day in Prison

WEEK OF September 23, 2021

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Episode 189: Supreme Court Preview, OT 2021

WEEK OF September 17, 2021

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Episode 188: Chalked Tires and the Other ACA

WEEK OF September 2, 2021

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Episode 187: How Binding is Your Dicta?

WEEK OF August 28, 2021

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Episode 186: Chillin’ with Uber

WEEK OF August 12, 2021

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Episode 185: Guns and Football

WEEK OF August 5, 2021

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Episode 184: California Constitutional Dreaming

WEEK OF July 28, 2021

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Episode 183: Expectations of Surveillance

WEEK OF July 23, 2021

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Episode 182: Putting the Protection in “Equal Protection”

WEEK OF July 15, 2021

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Episode 181: Mandatory Associations

WEEK OF July 8, 2021

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Episode 180: A Fifth of Qualified Immunity

WEEK OF July 2, 2021

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Episode 179: Taking Bees with the Police Power

WEEK OF June 25, 2021

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Episode 178: First Amendment Home Design

WEEK OF June 17, 2021

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Episode 177: When are judges “too cool”?

WEEK OF June 11, 2021

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Episode 176: Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?

WEEK OF June 4, 2021

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Episode 175: Tax Takings and Reservation Creation

WEEK OF May 28, 2021

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Episode 174: The Right to “Bear” Arms

WEEK OF May 21, 2021

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Episode 173: Public Accommodations and High Speed Snaps

WEEK OF May 14, 2021

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Episode 172: Confronting Cook County Corruption

WEEK OF April 30, 2021

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Episode 171: Should Originalists Party Like It’s 1868, not 1791?

WEEK OF April 22, 2021

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Episode 170: A Hot Mess and Seven Magic Words

WEEK OF April 19, 2021

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Episode 169: The Duct Tape of Federal Law

WEEK OF April 9, 2021

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Episode 168: Suspicious Handshakes and Football Prayers

WEEK OF April 1, 2021

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Episode 167: Section 230 and a drone search.

WEEK OF March 26, 2021

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Episode 166: To En Banc or Not to En Banc

WEEK OF March 19, 2021

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Episode 165: Orphaned Precedent

WEEK OF March 9, 2021

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Episode 164: Police Disciplinary Records and Suspicionless Border Searches

WEEK OF March 3, 2021

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Episode 163: The Law of Johnny 5 is Still Alive

WEEK OF February 19, 2021

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Episode 162: I Will Get Credit When I Crush You

WEEK OF February 12, 2021

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Episode 161: A Honkload of Stateless Cocaine

WEEK OF February 5, 2021

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Episode 160: The Dominion of Giuliani and Citizenship Receptions

WEEK OF January 29, 2021

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Episode 159: The Sub-Rational Basis Test

WEEK OF January 22, 2021

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Episode 158: Privileges or Immunities and Consent Decrees

WEEK OF January 14, 2021

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Episode 157: State Constitutionalists are the Veterinarians of Law

WEEK OF January 7, 2021

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Episode 156: The Navigable Waters, Recording Cops, and People in Church

WEEK OF December 23, 2020

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Episode 155: Only 160 Felonies

WEEK OF December 10, 2020

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Episode 154: Class action coupons and a building for Buddhists

WEEK OF November 30, 2020

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Episode 153: The Wire and Dairy Cows

WEEK OF November 12, 2020

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Episode 152: Election Law 2020 Special

WEEK OF October 29, 2020

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Episode 151: Lifetime Leases and Butterflies on Walls

WEEK OF October 22, 2020

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Episode 150: Vacation rentals, COVID orders, and Electoral College studies.

WEEK OF October 8, 2020

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Episode 149: Supreme Court Preview with UNC Law

WEEK OF October 2, 2020

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Episode 148: Are apartments a nuisance? Private property and the rise of zoning.

WEEK OF September 17, 2020

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Episode 147: Off-premises signs and an on-premise subpoena

WEEK OF September 10, 2020

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Episode 146: Riotous speech and a wrongful conviction.

WEEK OF September 5, 2020

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Episode 145: Dude, where’s my car? Plus, campaigning to disclose.

WEEK OF August 28, 2020

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Episode 144: PACER Charges and Publicly Charged Universal Injunctions

WEEK OF August 14, 2020

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Episode 143: Adoption, religious freedom, and anti-discrimination. Plus a promise not to do bad things.

WEEK OF August 6, 2020

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Episode 142: Losing your house over an $8 debt and parking fines.

WEEK OF July 31, 2020

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Episode 141: A pizza raid in Chicago and Fourth Amendment fireworks in the Fourth Circuit

WEEK OF July 23, 2020

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Episode 140: End times at the sheriff’s department and Euclidean policing.

WEEK OF July 15, 2020

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Episode 139: A Week of Heavy Lifts: Closing Down Gyms in Michigan and a High-Profile Prosecution in DC

WEEK OF June 26, 2020

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Episode 138: A Bunch of Bad Apples.

WEEK OF June 18, 2020

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Episode 137: Qualified Immunity and George Floyd

WEEK OF June 12, 2020

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Episode 136: Arguing at the Supreme Court

WEEK OF June 2, 2020

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Episode 135: Constitutional Guarantees During Emergencies

WEEK OF May 28, 2020

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Episode 134: Will the Supreme Court finally do something about qualified immunity?

WEEK OF May 15, 2020

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Episode 133: Forcing kids to attend crummy schools and forcing inmates to stay in COVID-infested prisons.

WEEK OF May 7, 2020

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Episode 132: A prostitution sting, alcohol, and government debt collectors.

WEEK OF May 1, 2020

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Episode 131: The Real RBT and the King’s Bench (in Pennsylvania) Approves COVID-19 Restrictions.

WEEK OF April 24, 2020

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Episode 130: No suing the feds for hiding Jeffrey Epstein’s nonprosecution deal, no suing the feds for killing cows in a quarantine, and no suing over government speech.

WEEK OF April 22, 2020

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Episode 129: Fines & fees, completed misdemeanors, and jail debit cards.

WEEK OF April 14, 2020

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Episode 128: Your City Could Go Bankrupt Because It Doesn’t Respect Property Rights

WEEK OF April 9, 2020

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Short Circuit 127: A cert grant, a cert petition, sanctuary cities, and pilfered Spanish gold.

WEEK OF April 1, 2020

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Short Circuit 126: Cert petitions, a prison shank public records request, and an arrest for having a smart mouth.

WEEK OF March 26, 2020

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Short Circuit 125: Double jeopardy, HIV-positive airmen, and leaving supplies in the desert for migrants.

WEEK OF March 13, 2020

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Short Circuit 124: Live at UGA Law

WEEK OF February 28, 2020

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Episode 123: Black Lives Matter, a qualified immunity cert petition, and Judge Easterbrook rips the DOJ.

WEEK OF February 6, 2020

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Episode 122: Nationwide injunctions

WEEK OF January 27, 2020

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Episode 121: Maryland political advertising, Texas liquor protectionism, and sham review of habeas petitions.

WEEK OF December 31, 2019

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Episode 120: Seattle homelessness, privacy for political donors, and housing vouchers.

WEEK OF December 18, 2019

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Short Circuit 119: Oyster takings, eminent domain in Colorado, and eminent domain in the Philippines.

WEEK OF December 4, 2019

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Short Circuit 118: SWAT destroys an innocent person’s house, Baltimore food trucks, and making innocent owners whole in civil forfeiture cases.

WEEK OF November 26, 2019

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Short Circuit 117: Dry celling, panhandling speech, and judicial abdication most foul.

WEEK OF November 22, 2019

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Short Circuit 116: SWAT destroys an innocent person’s house, privacy in your backyard, and productive use of abandoned property.

WEEK OF November 5, 2019

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Short Circuit Live: Third Circuit Edition

WEEK OF October 15, 2019

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Short Circuit Live: Ninth Circuit Edition

WEEK OF September 27, 2019

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Auer deference, the citizenship question, and the nondelegation doctrine.

WEEK OF August 13, 2019

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Bitten by a police dog, shot by a police officer, and sexually assaulted by a corrections officer.

WEEK OF August 2, 2019

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Criticizing the police, prayers at public meetings, and Twitter as public forum.

WEEK OF July 19, 2019

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Litigating under seal, flags as gov’t speech, and dangerous cell phones.

WEEK OF July 12, 2019

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Cursing drivers, revoked driver’s licenses, and peeping police.

WEEK OF June 7, 2019

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Short Circuit Live: Seventh Circuit Edition

WEEK OF May 10, 2019

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Police theft, forfeiture pleading standards, and fetal tissue transfers.

WEEK OF March 21, 2019

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Facebooking jurors, an unpopular church, a very bad cop, and a tire-tapping trespass.

WEEK OF February 18, 2019

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No Fly List games and no sovereign immunity over Flint’s water crisis or Ferguson’s fines and fees.

WEEK OF January 18, 2019

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Flight risks, using police databases for personal reasons, and a sentencing brouhaha.

WEEK OF December 30, 2018

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Gun permits, debt peonage, a hog farm gag order, and dueling dinosaur fossils.

WEEK OF November 15, 2018

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Special Live Edition on the Fifth Circuit

WEEK OF October 25, 2018

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Sciencing the heck of Auer deference, cruel and unusual punishment of the homeless, and Pride Festival picketing.

WEEK OF October 8, 2018

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A SCOTUS haiku challenge, incorporating the excessive fines clause, and a 40-foot cross on public property. Plus, the return of the nondelegation doctrine?

WEEK OF October 1, 2018

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Honey Badger copyrighting, a cautionary tale about trusting a bureaucrat, Gitmo detainee tries to get free, & more in Episode 99

WEEK OF August 24, 2018

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Amtrak’s self-serving regulations, the FHFA’s unconstitutional structure, Auer deference (not your deference), & more on Episode 98

WEEK OF August 3, 2018

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Are TSA screeners law enforcement officers? Iowa’s version of the 4th Amendment, why the Feds approve pipelines, & more on Episode 97

WEEK OF July 20, 2018

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Detaining an American citizen abroad, jury trials for petty crimes, banning displays of the 1st Amendment, & more on Episode 96

WEEK OF June 29, 2018

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FTC’s cybersecurity crackdown, the best qualified immunity decision (?), & more on Episode 95

WEEK OF June 15, 2018

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Trespassing on a beach, offensively Big Pimpin,’ capping the age of judges, Virginia motorist fines, & more on Episode 94

WEEK OF June 8, 2018

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Eminent domain for private gain, searching phones at the border, illegal structuring, & more on Episode 93

WEEK OF May 25, 2018

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The monkey selfie, the Pharma Bro, a murder confession from a drunk arrestee, & more on Episode 92

WEEK OF April 27, 2018