Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
Hot dang! Today, the Michigan Supreme Court agreed to hear an IJ case of keen interest to state constitutional mavens: whether there's an implied cause of action to bring constitutional-tort claims against local governments and local officials who behave very, very poorly. (We say yes.)
And speaking of state constitutions, if you're a fan of courts interpreting them as something other than carbon copies of the federal Constitution, IJ's Rob Peccola has a heartening tale about Pennsylvania's search-and-seizure provision for you over at the Brennan Center's State Court Report.
