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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Drone speech, roofer speech, and quasi-judicial speech.

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Cybertoonz Visits Murthy v. Missouri

The effort by Missouri to enjoin the Biden administration's "jawboning" of social media companies has reached the Supreme Court. The Solicitor General filed a long brief seeking a stay of the Fifth Circuit's injunction and explaining why cert should be granted. The Court granted cert and the stay (the latter…

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Court Agrees to Hear Missouri v. Biden Federal Government / Social Media Case

From today's order and accompanying opinion in Murthy v. Missouri: The application for stay … is granted. The preliminary injunction issued on July 4, 2023, by the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana … as modified by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth…

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Harvesting Facebook data, directorial diversity, and corrupt intent.

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Is the Fifth Circuit Becoming the New Ninth?

The Court is taking more cases from the Fifth Circuit, and its decisions do not appear to be faring well.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

SWAT takings, retaliatory liens, and a Spam confiscation.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Carjacking, arson, and obscured license tags.

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Supreme Court Will Consider Cases Challenging Florida and Texas Social Media Laws

The laws require major social media platforms to host content they disapprove of for substantive reasons.

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Supreme Court Will Review Fifth Circuit Ruling that Creates a Catch-22 for Takings Claims Against State Governments

The badly flawed lower court ruling defies the Supreme Court's landmark 2019 decision forbidding such Catch-22 traps, and threatens the property rights of large numbers of people.

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Fifth Circuit Panel in Missouri v. Biden Withdraws Grant of Rehearing

Monday, the Fifth Circuit panel that decided Missouri v. Biden—which held that some federal government actions improperly "coerced or significantly encouraged" platforms to restrict certain user speech—issued an order saying that it granted a petition for rehearing. This meant that the panel would likely reconsider the decision, though it wasn't…

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Music theory, cell phone seizures, and gratuitous strip searches.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Prayer trails, controlled burns, and copyrighted law.

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Free Speech, Social Media Firms, and the Fifth Circuit

The Fifth Circuit was right to rule it was illegal for the federal government to coerce social media firms, but wrong to uphold a Texas law requiring those firms to post material they prefer to keep out.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

3,000 years of overdetention, chief lickspittle, and the wrong side of the road.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Detroit's forfeiture machine, major nuclear questions, and copyrightable materials.

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The Fifth Circuit on the "Trump Train" / Biden-Harris Bus Lawsuit

The lawyer's true superpower is to turn every case into a case about procedure.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Zombie jokes, perplexing paths, and a handsy officer.

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Joke "We Need You Brad Pitt" Post at Start of COVID Pandemic Protected by First Amendment

The post led to the author being arrested for "terrorizing"; so clearly unconstitutional that the police officer lacks qualified immunity, says the Fifth Circuit.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Chalk, meme stocks, and a dog in peril.

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Fifth Circuit Affirms Just Hours After Oral Argument: Criminal Libel Arrest for Criticizing Police Officer …

was unconstitutional.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Butterfly knives, and prison atrocities, and a clueless detective.

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Fifth Circuit's Holds That People Who Use Marijuana Don't Lose Second Amendment Rights (At Least When Sober)

Title 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) bans gun possession by anyone "who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance," including marijuana; the ban applies not just while a person is intoxicated, but also while the person is sober. Today's decision in U.S. v. Daniels, written by Judge…

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Justice Barrett's Shadow Docket Policy: Do The Opposite Of Whatever The Fifth Circuit Did (Updated)

Forget Doe v. Mills. Justice Barrett will grant relief on the shadow docket when the Fifth Circuit steps out of line.

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Second Amendment Roundup: The Supreme Court stays vacatur of ATF regulations.

The 5th Circuit finds plaintiffs likely to succeed in challenging another set of ATF rules that implicate the Second Amendment.

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Shadow Docket Delays

What does it mean when the Circuit Justice extends an administrative stay?

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