Unpublished Opinions 23 | The Afroman Effect

John Wrench is joined by Diana Simpson and Patrick Jaicomo for an episode that crosses between profound and provocative. The trio reacts to the Supreme Court’s late-breaking decision in Olivier v. City of Brandon, weighing in on what it says and doesn’t say about the Heck bar. Then the conversation takes a turn toward Adams County, Ohio, where Afroman (yes, that Afroman) has just won a defamation case brought by the sheriff’s deputies who raided his house, instilling the trio with a deep sense of civic pride. Finally, the group swings over to Judge VanDyke’s dissental in Olympic Spa v. Armstrong, the one everyone is talking about—and not because of the legal issues. 

Oliver v. City of Brandon

Lemon Pound Cake

Olympic Spa v. Armstrong (en banc denial)

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