Does the Inevitable Discovery Exception Include Imagined Revised Attempts to Get Warrants? The Tenth Circuit says "yes," but I think the answer is "no." Reason · Oct 9, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Prayer trails, controlled burns, and copyrighted law. Reason · Sep 15, 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
Another Takings Case in Which Law Enforcement Severely Damaged an Innocent Person's Property In this case, an LA SWAT team destroyed an innocent store owner's shop in the process of trying to catch a suspect. Reason · Jul 28, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Cooperative subjects, an unwanted text message, and hunting in a national forest. Reason · Jul 28, 2023
Just The Facts, Ma'am The importance of the trial records in Students for Fair Admissions and 303 Creative Reason · Jul 4, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Vaccinated jurors, a parking monopoly, and plant-based meat. Reason · Apr 14, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Flouncing, flaunting, flirting, flouting, foundering, and flounting. Reason · Mar 3, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Bogus arrests, bogus charges, and bogus seizures. Reason · Jan 27, 2023
No Retroactive Pseudonymization for Frequent Litigant From Magistrate Judge Michael Hegarty's opinion Friday in Glapion-Pressley v. City & County of Denver (D. Colo.): Plaintiff files her Motion in four civil actions that she has commenced in the federal District of Colorado: (1) Glapion v. Castro, 14-cv-01699-MEH (2) Glapion v. Jewell, 14-cv-03236-MEH (3) Glapion-Pressley v. Denver, 19-cv-02806-RM-MEH… Reason · Jan 17, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Florida riots, MAGA hats, and an eyeball tasing. Reason · Jan 13, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Sikh Marines, MAGA hats, and racist memes. Reason · Dec 30, 2022
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Feather bans, tent curtilage, and youngsters and their sweets. Reason · Dec 16, 2022
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Veterans' benefits, Robert's Rules of Order, and Floribama. Reason · Dec 2, 2022
Reason · Nov 18, 2022 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Grains of sand, detachable pockets, and genuine obliviousness.
Reason · Nov 11, 2022 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Pit bull bans, community sensitivity, and criminal defamation.
Reason · Oct 1, 2022 Writing About People Who Don't Want to Be Written About How, if at all, should we try to be nice in an inherently not-nice occupation?
Reason · Sep 9, 2022 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Torture, restraint chairs, public cavity searches, and the secret to eternal youth.
Reason · Aug 5, 2022 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Measles, tough weeds, and a COVID hoax.
Reason · Jul 26, 2022 Important Case About #TheyLied Libel Lawsuits Against Federal Employees From Hockenberry v. U.S., decided today by the Tenth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Joel Carson, joined by Judges Nancy Moritz and Paul Kelly: Hockenberry is a Captain in the United States Army and Kalas is an Army Reserve Captain. In 2016, Hockenberry and Kalas were employed as attorneys…
Reason · Jul 22, 2022 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions So no one got qualified (or absolute) immunity this week. No kidding.
Reason · Jul 15, 2022 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Overgrown grass, recording the police, and lying officers who lie and ruin people's lives and get away with it.
Reason · Jul 11, 2022 Right to Videorecord Police Clearly Established, Violated by Blocking Camera and Shining Light Into It From today's decision in Irizarry v. Yehia, decided by Judge Scott Matheson, joined by Judges Paul Kelly and Carolyn McHugh: Early in the morning on May 26, 2019, Abade Irizarry, a YouTube journalist and blogger, was filming a DUI traffic stop in Lakewood, Colorado. Officer Ahmed Yehia arrived on the…
Reason · Jul 8, 2022 Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Retaliatory investigations, reckless investigating, and a consultant's duty.
Reason · Jun 23, 2022 Federal Jury Awards $59,000 in Takings Compensation to Property Owner Whose House was Severely Damaged by SWAT Team Pursuing a Suspect The ruling authorizing the award is at odds with other federal court decisions holding that law-enforcement exercises of the "police power" are exempt from takings liability.