Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Pizza wiretapping, free books, and a search during childbirth. Reason · Sep 6, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions A tardy oath, old-timey drunkards, and telling it man to [redacted] man. Reason · Aug 30, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Nonaggressive dogs, tactical vests, and the entire internet. Reason · Aug 23, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Crypto disclosures, high-risk stops, and protecting the curtilage. Reason · Aug 16, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Arresting the wrong Jose Vasquez. Arresting the wrong Bethany Farber. Arresting the wrong Juan Martinez. Reason · Aug 9, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Heated depositions, wellness checks, and strip searches. Reason · Aug 2, 2024
Sixth Circuit Puts Net Neutrality Rule on Ice A three-judge panel concludes the rule's challenger are likely to succeed on the merits. Reason · Aug 2, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Controversial memes, mandatory recusal, and punitive damages caps. Reason · Jul 5, 2024
Divided Sixth Circuit Panel Affirms Preliminary Injunction Against Department of Education Title IX Guidance The court concludes states are likely to succeed in their procedural challenges to the Education Department's decision to extend Bostock to Title IX. Reason · Jun 14, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Frothy fonts, unprofessional death threats, and books about butts and farts. Reason · Jun 7, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions A right to go down in flames, a machete confrontation, and a jury that only goes up to eleven. Reason · May 17, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions River rides, purple robes, and aesthetic injuries. Reason · May 3, 2024
District Court Unseals Sentencing Memorandum in Case Involving Detroit's "Topless Prophet" From Judge Linda Parker's opinion Thursday in U.S. v. Markovitz (E.D. Mich.); the defendant is the author of Topless Prophet: The True Story of America's Most Successful Gentleman's Club Entrepreneur, though the criminal case appears unrelated to the book: Charles Blackwell initiated this miscellaneous action to unseal the sentencing memoranda… Reason · Apr 22, 2024
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Neighborhood character, three-judge district court panels, and a moldy office. Reason · Apr 12, 2024
Reason · Mar 29, 2024 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Sovereign neighbors, voting particulars, and a qualified baptism.
Reason · Mar 22, 2024 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Nuclear waste, river cruises, and an exploding toilet.
Reason · Mar 15, 2024 Ambiguous Vacatur in Lindke v. Freed 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…
Reason · Mar 9, 2024 No Pseudonymity in Mental-Health-Related Lawsuit 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…
Reason · Feb 23, 2024 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Final decisions, accidental strip searches, and puppycide.
Reason · Jan 12, 2024 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Dishwashers, Nazi-looted art, and an ag-gag mixed bag.
Reason · Dec 29, 2023 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Brady violations, dual enrollments, and a West Coast conviction.
Reason · Nov 24, 2023 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Solar panels, bullet fragments, and private rights of action.
Reason · Nov 10, 2023 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Jury experiments, assault weapons, and machine guns.
Reason · Nov 3, 2023 Sixth Circuit Serial Personal Jurisdiction Litigant Kathy Griffin Makes More Precedent 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…
Reason · Oct 27, 2023 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Drone speech, roofer speech, and quasi-judicial speech.