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Qualified Immunity Meets the Takings Clause

A Sixth Circuit decision holds qualified immunity protects a state elevator inspector from being sued for taking a hotel's property.

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Sixth Circuit Upholds Sanctions Against Kraken Attorneys for Michigan Filings

The sanctions imposed on Sidney Powell and other attorneys raising frivolous challenges to the 2020 election were narrowed and slightly reduced, but largely upheld.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

A kangaroo court, a diversified student body, and lying drug cops.

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Summary Reversal of Sixth Circuit in Calcutt v. FDIC Reaffirms the Importance of Chenery I

A welcome reminder that reviewing courts must judge the propriety of agency actions solely by the grounds invoked by the agency.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Police baptisms, candy crushing, and reasonable violations of clearly established law.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Loss and woe.

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Sixth Circuit Panel Rejects Bump Stock Ban (Again)

A three-judge panel concludes that bump stocks cannot be considered machine gun parts under the rule of lenity.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Butter or spray; liars and bad cops; and SecretAgentRandyBeans.

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6th Cir. Reverses Conviction for Attempted Kidnapping

Prof. Jonathan Witmer-Rich (Cleveland State) posted this to a discussion list that I'm on, and graciously allowed me to forward it; it's about today's U.S. v. Ferguson (6th Cir.): Great case from the Sixth Circuit today on attempt, reversing a conviction for attempted kidnapping. The majority (2-1) holds that there…

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Sixth Circuit Refuses to Vacate Opinion on Air Force Covid Vaccine Requirement

A panel upheld a preliminary objection barring the Air force from requiring religious objectors to get Covid-19 vaccines, and a majority of the court's judges refused to vacate that decision as moot.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Scooter injuries, loyalty oaths, and Canadian barrels.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Anti-Muslim tweets, inactive warrants, and anti-Muslim prison guards.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Herring monitors, state-created dangers, and kicking out the jams.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Dam removal, malicious prosecution, and pre-trial diversion.

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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

Alaskan Natives, Alaska Airlines, and Alaskan students.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Bogus arrests, bogus charges, and bogus seizures.

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Eleventh Circuit Becomes Second Federal Appellate Court to Strike Down Tax Mandate Condition in 2021 Covid Stimulus Bill

Like the Sixth Circuit before it, the Eleventh ruled that the requirement that states receiving stimulus money refrain from cutting taxes was never clearly authorized by Congress.

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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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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Florida riots, MAGA hats, and an eyeball tasing.

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Sixth Circuit Narrows Injunction to the Parties

Today a panel of the Sixth Circuit (Judge Larsen writing, joined by Judges Siler and McKeague) affirmed a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the COVID vaccination requirement for federal contractors. But the court narrowed the preliminary injunction, which had covered parties and non-parties alike in the plaintiff states. Now…

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Sixth Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Biden Administration COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concludes the President exceeded the scope of his delegated authority.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Cicero, Bentham, Coke, and Kierkegaard.

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Sixth Circuit finds constitutional flaw in ARPA Tax Cut Ban

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

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