Short Circuit traveled to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where the student Federalist Society chapter graciously hosted us and allowed us to present a live recording before their fellow law students. On the panel we were joined by professors Matthew Wiener and Mitchell Berman and Philadelphia lawyer Michael McGinley. On the podcast we give an overview of the Third Circuit as part of our #12Months12Circuits series and then dig into three recent Third Circuit cases. These include a reverse discrimination matter with an interesting state-law twist, a search of a suspect’s text messages that turns into the question of whether a constitutional rule is merely “prophylactic,” and an AI-assisted brief that divided the court on what sanctions to impose.

Massey v. Bergenfield

U.S. v. Curry

McCarthy v. DEA

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