Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
Hey, what's new? Us? Oh, not much . . . except IJ is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court for the 13th time! On Monday afternoon, the Court granted IJ's petition for certiorari in Martin v. United States, a case that seeks to hold the FBI accountable for sending a SWAT team to the wrong house, where they traumatized an innocent family—Trina Martin, her then-seven-year-old son Gabe, and her partner Toi Cliatt, none of whom had committed any crime. When the feds refused to pay for the harm they'd caused, Trina, Gabe, and Toi sued. But the Eleventh Circuit held their claims were barred by sovereign immunity. Now, the Supreme Court has a chance to set things right and hold the gov't accountable. Read more here!
Also this week: A new Bound By Oath podcast! Renowned civil rights litigator Marshall Krause tells the story of Camara v. Municipal Court of the City & County of San Francisco, which he argued at the Supreme Court in 1967. And we tell the story of how the Fourth Amendment's protections against invasions of the home became less robust when it's a code inspector rather than a police officer knocking at the door.
