Short Circuit 437 | Privately Racing the Nondelegation Doctrine
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An old friend rejoins the show, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020. It’s been trotting around the federal courts of appeals for a few years now, truing to outrun the private nondelegation doctrine. The latest showing was at the Fifth Circuit a few weeks ago. Rebecca Furdek of the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty joins us to survey the field and provide the odds on what may end up being a photo finish at the Supreme Court. Then we shift from horses to zombies with IJ’s Marco Vasquez. He takes us to the Fourth Circuit where the Seventh Amendment’s jury trial right ran up against an old and increasingly disfavored Supreme Court precedent. But not disfavored enough to not control the outcome of the case. Is it “zombie precedent”? And will it remain undead for long? We address these questions before turning to the latest in our #12Months12Circuits series with another old friend of the show, the Seventh Circuit.
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