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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Flouncing, flaunting, flirting, flouting, foundering, and flounting.

Reason · Mar 3, 2023

LIV Golf, PGA Tour spar over testimony from Saudi officials

A federal judge is trying to keep LIV Golf’s antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour on track

The Independent UK · Feb 24, 2023

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Boisterous school children, suspicious mispronunciations, and convicted misdemeanant Don Blankenship.

Reason · Feb 24, 2023

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Sex trafficking, child-pornography solicitation, and FERC.

Reason · Jan 20, 2023

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Zoom jurors, community caretaking, and criticizing a colleague.

Reason · Jan 6, 2023

No Problem with Juror Being Remote Because Wife Might Have COVID, If Defendant Consents

From yesterday's Ninth Circuit decision in U.S. v. Knight, by District Judge Robert Lasnik (W.D. Wash.), joined by Judges Sidney Thomas and Mark Bennett: In July 2019, two stores were robbed in Sparks, Nevada. After a six-day trial, Knight was convicted of the robberies and sentenced to 169 months' imprisonment…

Reason · Jan 5, 2023

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Sikh Marines, MAGA hats, and racist memes.

Reason · Dec 30, 2022

Court Refuses to Block California Ban on COVID "Treatment or Advice" That's "Contrary to the Standard of Care"

The law bans doctors from providing "treatment or advice" "to a patient" "related to COVID-19" when that treatment or advice includes (1) "false information" (2) "that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus" (3) "contrary to the standard of care." The law regulates only speech to patients, not to the public…

Reason · Dec 29, 2022

Teacher Can Proceed With First Amendment Lawsuit Over Threatened Punishment for Wearing MAGA Hat to Training

A defendant had argued that she could allow Black Lives Matters posters but forbid MAGA hats on the theory that, "While the Black Lives Matter poster is a symbol of cultural acceptance and inclusivity ... Mr. Dodge's MAGA hat is a symbol commonly associated with white supremacy and other anti-immigrant…

Reason · Dec 29, 2022

Ninth Circuit Upholds Expulsions for Off-Campus Abusive Speech That Targets Particular Students

“Students ... remain free to express offensive and other unpopular viewpoints [at least outside school], but that does not include a license to disseminate severely harassing invective targeted at particular classmates in a manner that is readily and foreseeably transmissible to those students.”

Reason · Dec 27, 2022