Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Legal phantoms, Frankenstein's monster, and a wrong-door SWAT raid. Reason · Feb 2, 2024
Justice Department to Seek Mandamus to End Juliana Litigation (Again) Will Judge Aiken finally accede to the law and allow this particular climate case to end? Reason · Jan 29, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Dishwashers, Nazi-looted art, and an ag-gag mixed bag. Reason · Jan 12, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Gross, degrading, and deeply concerning. Reason · Jan 5, 2024
Federal Court Again Refuses to Dismiss Juliana Climate Case Judge Aiken's reckless defiance of legal rules is turning the "Kids Climate Case" into a zombie climate case. Reason · Jan 2, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Gag orders, sleeper berths, and a prosecutor's "dodgy side hustle." Reason · Dec 15, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Long opinions, long captions, and valuable considerations. Reason · Dec 8, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Gift cards, strong medicine, and cloud search warrants. Reason · Nov 3, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Harvesting Facebook data, directorial diversity, and corrupt intent. Reason · Oct 20, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Carjacking, arson, and obscured license tags. Reason · Oct 6, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Wedding officiants, teaser profiles, and administrative animals. Reason · Sep 29, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Prayer trails, controlled burns, and copyrighted law. Reason · Sep 15, 2023
California Restriction on Gun Ads That "Reasonably Appear[] to Be Attractive to Minors" Likely Unconstitutional From Junior Sports Magazines, Inc. v. Bonta, decided today by Ninth Circuit Judge Kenneth Lee, joined by Judges Randy Smith and Lawrence VanDyke: This case is not about whether children can buy firearms. (They cannot under California law.) Nor is this case about whether minors can legally use firearms. (California… Reason · Sep 13, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions 3,000 years of overdetention, chief lickspittle, and the wrong side of the road. Reason · Sep 8, 2023
Reason · Sep 1, 2023 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Detroit's forfeiture machine, major nuclear questions, and copyrightable materials.
Reason · Aug 25, 2023 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Zombie jokes, perplexing paths, and a handsy officer.
Reason · Aug 18, 2023 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Chalk, meme stocks, and a dog in peril.
Reason · Aug 11, 2023 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Butterfly knives, and prison atrocities, and a clueless detective.
Reason · Aug 4, 2023 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Moot beaches, sparking the French Revolution, and cash-bail advocacy.
Reason · Aug 4, 2023 Ninth Circuit Stays Ruling Against Biden Asylum Restrictions The 2-1 ruling (divided along surprising ideological lines) is a win for the administration. But they may well still end up losing in the end.
Reason · Aug 2, 2023 Ninth Circuit Rejects Claim that University Libeled Students and Coaches by Falsely Accusing Them of Blackface Skit From Day v. California Lutheran Univ., decided yesterday by Ninth Circuit Judges Gabriel Sanchez and Salvador Mendoza, Jr., and District Court Judge Brian Jackson (M.D. La.) (reversing a decision I blogged about last Fall): In January 2020, a group of students from the California Lutheran University ("CLU") women's softball team…
Reason · Jul 26, 2023 Can Plaintiff Who Lost a Case Get Retroactively Pseudonymized, Because of Fear of Employment Consequences? Two Central District of California case reach different results.
Reason · Jul 21, 2023 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Huge tracts of land, Dad does The RICO, and poor prosecutorial behavior
Reason · Jul 5, 2023 9th Cir. Invalidates Oregon's Ban on Surreptitious Recordings of Conversations From Project Veritas v. Schmidt, decided Monday by a Ninth Circuit panel in an opinion by Judge Sandra Ikuta, joined by Judge Carlos Bea: Oregon law generally prohibits unannounced recordings of conversations, subject to several exceptions [including for recordings of law enforcement and for recording various crimes that endanger human…
Reason · Jun 30, 2023 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Suing the TSA, unsecured explosives, and basic grammar.