Short Circuit
The Supreme Court decides a few dozen cases every year; federal appellate courts decide thousands. So if you love constitutional law, the circuit courts are where it’s at. Join us as we break down some of the week’s most intriguing appellate decisions with a unique brand of insight, wit, and passion for judicial engagement and the rule of law. ij.org/short-circuit
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Short Circuit 327 | Conference Realignment
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Short Circuit 326 | Modesty of Our Lexicographers
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Short Circuit 325 | This Is a Racket
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Short Circuit 324 | The Battle for Your Brain
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Short Circuit 323 | Poor Behavior
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Short Circuit 322 | Neighbors
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Short Circuit 321 | A Tale of Two Prisons
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Short Circuit 320 | Spy Cameras
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Short Circuit 319 | Baptism By Venue
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Short Circuit 318 | Is Coding Speech?
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Short Circuit 317 | Live at the University of Virginia!
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Short Circuit 316 | Unaccountable
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Short Circuit 315 | A Day at the Races
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Short Circuit 314 | That’s Gold, Jerry, Gold!
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Short Circuit 313 | Memo From a Robot
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Short Circuit 312 | The Power of FERC
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Short Circuit 311 | SCOTUS Ladies
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Short Circuit 310 | Opening the Vaults
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Short Circuit 309 | O’Scannlain O’Rama
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Short Circuit 308 | Burns Night
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Short Circuit 307 | Working Both Sides of the Bench
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Short Circuit 306 | Widespread Super Cheap Surveillance
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Short Circuit 305 | Rare as Hen’s Teeth
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Short Circuit 304 | The Writing on the Wall
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Short Circuit 303 | Larry McMurtry Fact Pattern
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Short Circuit 302 | Deranged Prosecutor
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Short Circuit 301 | Litigating the Multiverse
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Short Circuit 300 | The Cause of Action Community
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Short Circuit 299 | The Gambler
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Short Circuit 298 | Everything Causes Cancer
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Short Circuit 297 | Working in a Coal Mine with TikTok
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Short Circuit 296 | Parenting Is Hard
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Short Circuit 295 | Nightmare on Law Street
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Short Circuit 294 | A Blast from the Past
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Short Circuit 293 | General Law for the Fourth Amendment
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Short Circuit 292 | Infallible Online
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Short Circuit 291 | Stanford’s Supreme Court Clinic
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Short Circuit 290 | Supreme Court Preview at UNC!
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Short Circuit 289 | Property Rights FTW
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Short Circuit 288 | Nondelegating Warrants
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Short Circuit 287 | Where the Sidewalk Ends
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Short Circuit 286 | Totally Noncontroversial Issues
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Short Circuit 285 | Searching for Something
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Short Circuit 284 | Betting the Election
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Short Circuit 283 | Pennies at a Time
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Short Circuit 282 | Sexy Cops and Decades of Deference
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Short Circuit 281 | Bosom Buddies
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Short Circuit 280 | Something’s Rotten in the State of Bivens
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Short Circuit 279 | Cops on the Beat
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Short Circuit 278 | I’ll Take the Elevator
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