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March 13, 2020 Short Circuit 125 (3/13/20)
Double jeopardy, the Air Force’s effective ban on deploying HIV-positive airmen, and leaving supplies in the desert for migrants crossing the border.
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Double jeopardy: https://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/newcaaf/opinions/2019OctTerm/170263.pdf
New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/three-trials-for-murder
Air Force & HIV: http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/191410.P.pdf
Leaving supplies in the desert: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6763128/2020-02-03-Hoffman-DE22-Order-Reversing.pdf
32 min
February 28, 2020 Short Circuit 124: Live at UGA Law
Lynching & grand jury secrecy, property destruction during a wrongful arrest, and a minimum wage fight.
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Andrew Fleischman: https://www.rossandpines.com/attorneys/andrew-s-fleischman/
Eric Segall: https://law.gsu.edu/profile/eric-j-segall/
Michael Wells: http://www.law.uga.edu/profile/michael-l-wells
Anya Bidwell: https://ij.org/staff/anya-bidwell/
Cases:
Lewis v. Governor of Alabama (panel): http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201711009.pdf
Lewis v. Governor of Alabama (en benc): http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201711009.enb.pdf
Glenn v. The State: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Glenn-v.-The-State.pdf
Pitch v. United States: http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201715016.pdf
1 hr 1 min
February 20, 2020 Ep. 9: Excessive Fines
Prohibitions on excessive fines date back at least as far as Magna Carta in 1215, and the U.S. Constitution has barred excessive fines since 1791. But the Supreme Court has only recently begun to interpret what the Excessive Fines Clause means, and it wasn’t until 2019 that the Court said the Clause applies to the states.
On this episode: the story of how the Supreme Court finally began to incorporate the Bill of Rights rights against the states and the history of excessive fines.
1 hr 4 min
February 06, 2020 Short Circuit 123 (2/6/20)
A police officer’s suit against a Black Lives Matter protest leader, a qualified immunity cert petition, and Frank Easterbrook rips the DOJ.
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Black Lives Matter (April 2019): https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4613290/john-doe-v-deray-mckesson/
Black Lives Matter (August 2019): http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/17/17-30864-CV0.pdf
Black Lives Matter cert petition: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/mckesson_v_doe_cert_petn_and_appendix.pdf
Black Lives Matter (December 2019): http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/17/17-30864-CV1.pdf
Kelsay v. Ernst panel decision: https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/18/09/172181P.pdf
Kelsay v. Ernst en banc decision: https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/19/08/172181P.pdf
Kelsay v. Ernst cert petition: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-682/123715/20191126132451862_19-__%20PetitionForAWritOfCertiorari.pdf
Easterbrook is not pleased: http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2020/D01-23/C:19-1642:J:Easterbrook:aut:T:fnOp:N:2462983:S:0
30 min
January 27, 2020 Short Circuit 122 (1/27/20): Nationwide injunctions
Learn all about a topic many people can’t stop talking about: “nationwide injunctions.” Scott Keller of Baker Botts, and formerly the Solicitor General for the State of Texas, speaks with CJE Director Anthony Sanders about injunctions, the constitution, and even courts of equity in jolly ol’ England.
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SPEAKERS
Scott Keller, appellate lawyer: https://www.bakerbotts.com/people/k/keller-scott-a
Anthony Sanders, Director of the Center for Judicial Engagement: https://ij.org/staff/asanders/
RESOURCES:
Texas, et al. v. United States (DAPA case):https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions%5Cpub%5C15/15-40238-CV0.pdf
Facial Unconstitutionality & Universal Injunctions: https://ij.org/sc_blog/facial-unconstitutionality-universal-injunctions/
Multiple Chancellors: Reforming the National Injunction: https://harvardlawreview.org/2017/12/multiple-chancellors-reforming-the-national-injunction/
The Lost History of the “Universal” Injunction: https://harvardlawreview.org/2020/01/the-lost-history-of-the-universal-injunction/
45 min
January 16, 2020 Special Episode: Espinoza v. Montana (1/16/20)
On January 22, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in an IJ case, Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue. At issue is a Montana school choice program that allowed families to send their children to private schools, including religious ones. The Montana Supreme Court said the program violated the state’s Blaine Amendment, a relic of 19th-century anti-Catholic hysteria that lives on today in 37 states constitutions, and struck the program down in 2018. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, will consider whether discriminating against religious options violates the First Amendment. On this podcast, we take a look at the history of Blaine Amendments, school choice, and one-size-fits-all schooling.
https://ij.org/case/montana-school-choice/
47 min
December 31, 2019 Short Circuit 121 (1/03/20)
Maryland political advertising, Texas liquor protectionism, and sham review of habeas petitions.
Planned Giving: http://ij.plannedgiving.org/
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Election interference: http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/191132.P.pdf
Wal-Mart liquor: http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/18/18-50299-CV1.pdf
IJ’s equal protection amicus: https://libationlawblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Walmart-v-Texas-Institute-for-Justice-Amicus-Brief.pdf
Sham review cert petition: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-8341/91333/20190311112740772_00000007.pdf
Justice Sotomayor’s statement respecting denial of cert (starts page 14): https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/120919zor_ihdj.pdf
28 min
December 18, 2019 Short Circuit 120 (12/20/19)
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Seattle homelessness, privacy for political donors, and a city sues a state.
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Delaware judicial appointments: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/carney-v-adams/
Seattle homeless sweeps: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/11/29/18-35053.pdf
Donor privacy: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/03/29/16-55727.pdf
IJ’s amicus in support of cert: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-251/116781/20190924125402029_Brief%20of%20Amicus%20Curiae%20Institute%20for%20Justice%20in%20Support%20of%20Petitioners.pdf
Austin v. Texas housing vouchers: http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/18/18-50646-CV0.pdf
26 min
December 04, 2019 Short Circuit 119 (12/6/19)
Oyster takings, eminent domain in Colorado, and eminent domain in the Philippines.
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Virginia oystermen: https://www.inversecondemnation.com/inversecondemnation/2019/11/city-we-have-the-right-to-pollute-virginia-oystermens-petition-asserting-a-taking-.html
Colorado eminent domain: https://ij.org/case/woodcrest-homes-inc-v-carousel-farms-metro-dis/
Philippines eminent domain: https://www.inversecondemnation.com/inversecondemnation/2019/09/berman-international-takings-must-undergo-painstaking-judicial-scrutiny.html
32 min
November 26, 2019 Short Circuit 118 (11/26/19)
SWAT destroys an innocent persons house, Baltimore food trucks, and making innocent owners whole in civil forfeiture cases.
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Consent to SWAT destroying your house: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/07/25/18-35300.pdf
Maryland’s law of the land clause: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Court-of-Appeals-Brief-FINAL.pdf
Miami forfeiture cert petition: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Salgado-v.-United-States-of-America-Petition-for-a-Writ-of-Certiorari.pdf
28 min

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