The Latest Breaking News from Sixth Circuit

As Eugene has noted below, the Court issued its opinions today in two cases about the First Amendment status of the social media posts of government officials. One technical but interesting note is the way that the Court ends its opinion in Lindke: To the extent that this test differs…

From Koe v. Univ. Hospitals Health Systems, Inc., decided yesterday by the Sixth Circuit (Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, Judge Alan Norris, and Judge Eugene Siler): Koe was a medical resident at Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center from June 2019 until he was discharged in April 2021, ostensibly…

Jury experiments, assault weapons, and machine guns.

If you want to sue someone, you have to do it in a court that has "personal jurisdiction" over that person; that, courts have held, is required by the Due Process Clause. One way to make sure of this is to sue where the defendant lives (to oversimplify in some…

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

Harvesting Facebook data, directorial diversity, and corrupt intent.

Carjacking, arson, and obscured license tags.

After a divided ruling, laws limiting such treatments in Tennessee and Kentucky will go into force.

Prayer trails, controlled burns, and copyrighted law.