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

Humboldt County , Calif. fines people millions of dollars for things they didn't do because it doesn't care if they are innocent.

IJ is asking the Supreme Court to revisit its 1916 decision that the Seventh Amendment's guarantee of a jury trial in suits at common law does not apply to the states.

Boy Scouts of America declared bankruptcy in 2020 amid a torrent of lawsuits uncovering decades of sexual abuse.

Texas Attorney General's Office sues Yelp in Texas state court, claiming the rescinded notices were false and misleading.

Yelp: Obviously, this is First Amendment retaliation, right? Ninth Circuit : You know what trumps concerns about free speech? Younger abstention! Eleventh Circuit has affirmed a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of a Florida law that was, by its sponsors, enacted to ban the "gateway propaganda" of Drag Queen Story Time.

Over at the University of Miami Law Review , IJ attorneys Jared McClain and Dylan Moore maintain that, to the contrary, the Fourth Amendment very much protects against mistaken-ID arrests. That said, if courts insist, as the Eleventh Circuit did, on analyzing these cases through substantive due process, well, the Constitution is not silent there either. Check it out! And then check out IJ 's own mistaken-ID case, which aims to change the law..