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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Surprise inspections, dangerous fake weapons, and classroom interference.

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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.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Student loan forgiveness, critical infrastructure, and inexcusable incompetence.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Instagram foxes, kosher Pickles, and maritime riches.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Dishwashers, Nazi-looted art, and an ag-gag mixed bag.

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Eighth Circuit Upholds Ban on Material Lies on Certain Employment Applications, When Speaker Intends to Cause Injury

From today's opinion in Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Reynolds, by Judge Colloton, joined by Judges Grasz and Kobes: In Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Reynolds (8th Cir. 2021) ("ALDF I"), this court considered an Iowa law that prohibited (1) accessing an agricultural production facility by false pretenses and (2)…

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Eighth Circuit Upholds Iowa Law Increasing Trespass Penalties When Trespasser Uses Recording Device

From today's opinion in Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Reynolds by Judge Grasz, joined by Judges Colloton and Kobes: Iowa enacted a trespass-surveillance law penalizing anyone who, while trespassing, "knowingly places or uses a camera or electronic surveillance device that transmits or records images or data while the device is…

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Gag orders, sleeper berths, and a prosecutor's "dodgy side hustle."

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Supreme Court Denies Review of Social Cost of Carbon Challenge

The Court saw no reason to consider the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that the states lacked standing.

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School Policy Requiring Students to "Respect" "a Student's Gender Identity" Is Unconstitutionally Vague

From Parents Defending Education v. Linn Mar Community School Dist., decided Sept. 29 by the Eighth Circuit (Judge Steven Colloton, joined by Judges Duane Benton and Jane Kelly): The disputed policy is entitled "Administrative Regulations Regarding Transgender and Students Nonconforming to Gender Role Stereotypes." The policy was adopted in April…

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

3,000 years of overdetention, chief lickspittle, and the wrong side of the road.

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Four Eighth Circuit Judges Argue That Felons Don't Categorically Lose Second Amendment Rights

The opinion is today's dissent from denial of rehearing en banc in U.S. v. Jackson (8th Cir.), written by Judge David Stras, joined by Judges Ralph Erickson, Steven Grasz, and Jonathan Kobes: By cutting off as-applied challenges to the federal felon-in-possession statute, Jackson and Cunningham [two recent Eighth Circuit panel…

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Butterfly knives, and prison atrocities, and a clueless detective.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Moot beaches, sparking the French Revolution, and cash-bail advocacy.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Deposition misconduct, grumpy interrogatories, and protesting the Lawyers' Mall.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Fake Instagram accounts, offensive Facebook comments, and pro se parents.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Bridges to nowhere, a blindfolded surprise, and a threatening smirk.

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Scooter injuries, loyalty oaths, and Canadian barrels.

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Justice Jackson Calls for Reining in the Use of Munsingwear Vacatur

The Court's newest justice questions whether her colleagues are too quick to vacate lower court decisions.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Boisterous school children, suspicious mispronunciations, and convicted misdemeanant Don Blankenship.

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S. Ct. Denies Review of Eighth Circuit En Banc Case Upholding Arkansas "Anti-BDS" Statute

The statute required no-boycott-of-Israel terms in Arkansas government contracts; the Eighth Circuit had held that the law doesn't violate the First Amendment.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Chastising finger wags, derogatory reports, and steel threats.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Sex trafficking, child-pornography solicitation, and FERC.

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Supreme Court Decides to Hear Case Challenging State Law Empowering Government to Seize Entire Value of a House to Pay Much Smaller Property Tax Debt

Minnesota law allowed Hennepin County to seize a $40,000 home owned by a 93-year-old widow to pay off a $15,000 tax debt.

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