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Use of Flock Cameras Is Not a Fourth Amendment "Search," District Court Rules

The first post-Chatrie ruling on the question.

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Eleventh Circuit Holds Qui Tam Relators Are Not "Officers of the United States." What Happens Next?

[This post is co-authored with Professor Seth Barrett Tillman.] Over the past decade, many legal challenges have turned on whether… The post Eleventh Circuit Holds Qui Tam Relators Are Not "Officers of the United States." What Happens Next? appeared first on Reason Magazine.

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Pro-Palestinian Poster's "Doxing" Claim, Stemming from Her Firing as a Result of Public Criticism, Rejected

Some excerpts from Judge Jacqueline Becerra (S.D. Fla.) today in Khorashi v. Beer; the analysis strikes me as correct: This… The post Pro-Palestinian Poster's "Doxing" Claim, Stemming from Her Firing as a Result of Public Criticism, Rejected appeared first on Reason.com.

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Plaintiff Can't Litigate Claim That "Security Clearance Process" Was Used "as a Pretextual Weapon to Execute an Ideological Purge"

From Judge Kyle Dudek (M.D. Fla.) today in Reilly v. U.S. Att'y Gen.: This case presents a conflict between individual… The post Plaintiff Can't Litigate Claim That "Security Clearance Process" Was Used "as a Pretextual Weapon to Execute an Ideological Purge" appeared first on Reason.com.

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Judge Ross Lacked Any Remorse, and The Chief Judge of the Eleventh Circuit Gave Her One Too Many Chances To Correct The Record

The latest developments make Judge Ross's situation, and the Eleventh Circuit's response, even worse.

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What Judge Wood Did Not Say About Judge Ross's Misconduct (Updated)

She says nothing about Judge Ross's dishonesty, nothing about the private reprimand, and nothing about Pauline Newman.

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Justice Thomas Faults The Court's Inconsistent Approach to Summary Reversals

This aspect of the "shadow" docket is largely ignored.

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DOJ Moves To Disqualify Judge Ross In Election Interference Case

The Eleventh Circuit's decision to identify a conflict of interest, but not identify the conflicted judge, leaves litigants guessing.

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Who Is The District Court Judge Who Was Privately Reprimanded For Having Loud Sex In Her Chambers With A Law Enforcement Officer From Her District?

The clues in the memorandum point to a specific judge.

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Procedural Twist in Kash Patel's Libel Suit Against Substacker Jim Stewartson (Filed in 2023)

From today's decision by Chief Judge Andrew Gordon (D. Nev.) in Patel v. Stewartson (for more on the $100K compensatory… The post Procedural Twist in Kash Patel's Libel Suit Against Substacker Jim Stewartson (Filed in 2023) appeared first on Reason.com.

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Will the Eleventh Circuit Allow the Endangered Species Act to Commandeer the Florida Department of Environmental Protection?

A pending case will test whether courts are willing to enforce the anticommandeering doctrine in the context of environmental protection.

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Israeli-American Doctor's Federal Conspiracy Claim Against CAIR and Other Critics Can Go Forward for Now

From today's decision by Judge Thomas Thrash (N.D. Ga.) in Winer v. Mohammad: This action arises out of alleged defamatory… The post Israeli-American Doctor's Federal Conspiracy Claim Against CAIR and Other Critics Can Go Forward for Now appeared first on Reason.com.

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Federal Officer Removal in Plaquemines Parish

Justice Barrett is thinking about Chief Judge Pryor's holding that Mark Meadows could not remove the Georgia criminal prosecution to federal court.

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When Courts of Appeals Decide Issues Pending Before the Supreme Court

The practice is not consistent.

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COVID Closure of Private Beach Access Constitutes a Taking

The Eleventh Circuit concludes "there is no COVID exception to the Takings Clause."

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Jack Smith Miscalculated The Odds of Drawing Judge Cannon, and After He Lost, Asked SG Prelogar For Permission To Seek Cannon's Removal

A new book provides an inside look to the Florida Special Counsel investigation.

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Florida Can Forbid Transgender High School Math Teacher From Using Feminine Pronouns to Refer to Herself in Class, 11th Circuit Says

The appeals court vacated a preliminary injunction that had been based on her First Amendment rights

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Alabama Defendants in Youth Gender Medicine Case May Disclose Discovery Documents from World Professional Association for Transgender Health

Monday's decision by Judge Liles Burke (M.D. Ala.) in Boe v. Marshall dealt with whether the defendants should be able… The post Alabama Defendants in Youth Gender Medicine Case May Disclose Discovery Documents from World Professional Association for Transgender Health appeared first on Reason.com.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Unaccompanied kids, implied causes of action, and filming the police.

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Reasonable to Deny Pseudonymity to Plaintiff Who Seeks to Conceal That She Has Epilepsy

So holds the Eleventh Circuit.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

White House press passes, Wikipedia edits, and same-sex weddings.

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Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 4

The final post in my serial blogging on whether private universities can use a Boy Scouts expressive association theory to have race-based affirmative action.

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Justices Sotomayor and Gorsuch on the Fourth Amendment and Misdemeanor Arrests

"Founding-era common law gave officers no authority to make an 'arrest without a warrant, for a mere misdemeanor not committed in [their] presence.'"

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Crypto rules, false statements, and regulatory habitats.

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Judicial Misconduct Complaint Against Judge Vaden For Columbia Boycott Referred to Seventh Circuit's Judicial Council

The Fifth and Eleventh Circuits already dismissed similar complaints, but the Chief Judge of the Court of International Trade asked the Chief Justice to refer it to another circuit, and Roberts did so.

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