Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Rare gems, neutral judges, and a blindsided referee. Reason · Jul 1, 2022
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit Over School Ban on T-Shirts That Depict Guns, and reverses a precedent that suggested that viewpoint-neutral speech restrictions in public K-12 schools are generally permissible. Reason · Jun 15, 2022
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Plasma, prisons, and political parties Reason · May 13, 2022
TV Station Must Turn Over Outtakes from Interviews for Use in Civil Case From Gaines v. Chicago Bd. of Ed., decided Friday by Magistrate Judge Sheila Finnegan (N.D. Ill.); note that the result might have been different in other federal circuits, which do recognize journalist's privileges of varying strength: Plaintiffs Asia Gaines, for herself and as next friend of her minor child JC,… Reason · May 2, 2022
No Pseudonymity in Challenge to Denial of Religious Exemption from Military Vaccine Mandate From Chief Judge Beryl Howell (D.D.C.) in Officer in the U.S. Space Force v. Austin, decided yesterday (contrary to decisions in M.D. Fla., N.D. Ill. and D. Colo., but consistently with Chief Judge Howell's decision in another case, and with this nonprecedential Seventh Circuit order): Plaintiff is "an officer in… Reason · Apr 16, 2022
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Acts of state, hedonic damages, and bang-bang commands. Reason · Apr 1, 2022
No Pseudonymity in Challenge to Denial of Religious Exemption from Military Vaccine Mandate From U.S. Army ROTC ECP Cadet Doe v. Biden, decided yesterday by Chief Judge Beryl Howell (D.D.C.) (contrary to decisions in M.D. Fla., N.D. Ill. and D. Colo., but consistently with this nonprecedential Seventh Circuit order): Plaintiff, "a nineteen-year-old male ROTC Early Commissioning Program (ECP) candidate" who is "currently a… Reason · Mar 22, 2022