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Editor of the Short Circuit newsletter: @shortcircuitij.bsky.social Listen to Bound By Oath, a podcast on constitutional history: https://ij.org/podcasts/bound-by-oath/mr-thorntons-woods-season-3-ep-1/
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27.07.2025 17:59 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
There will now be 10,000 new ICE agents & 100,000 new detention beds--and few safeguards protecting people from constitutional violations by the feds.
Time for states to pass laws allowing people to sue fed agents. Read about it these "converse-1983" statutes here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
We filed another mistaken-identity case. The video is genuinely harrowing: youtu.be/3J6SBmLyfG8
It's so fucked that this happens all the time and no one ever faces any consequences. All our clients say that going through this completely erodes whatever trust they had trust in law enforcement.
In all the universal/nationwide injunctions debate almost no one (including SCOTUS) has said anything about state & local governments. That’s terribly unfortunate because UIs are needed in suits against them the most, as I explain here. 1/ 🧵
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Argument is tomorrow, Tuesday, April 29, at 10 am. Check out IJ's listeners' guide for more information: ij.org/case/martin-...
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New episode of Bound By Oath is a great explainer on the technical issues for tomorrow's SCOTUS argument in Martin v. United States.
It answers the age-old question: "Can an administrative functionary have discretion to commit an intentional tort?" No, they cannot.
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In the latest episode of #BoundByOath we discuss how wrong house raids in 1973 led Congress to give victims of federal agents a remedy for similar outrages. It's essential background to the Supreme Court's oral argument next week in Martin v. U.S.
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Thank you to everyone who came to @shortcircuitij.bsky.social 10th anniversary last night! Among other things we learned from @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social that arbitration is hilarious (seriously, it got the biggest laughs of the night).
04.04.2025 15:50 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
One day until showtime.
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In North Carolina today to launch yet another @ij.org case about a SWAT team raiding the wrong house.
Watch the case video here: youtu.be/5ukdm8QBTzc
After 4 relists, the court denied cert this morning in our Texas Wrong House Raid case
Sotomayor and Jackson would have granted cert
It was a great case to address QI b/c the SWAT leader conceded he violated 4A, & the 5th Cir granted QI anyway b/c he did more than "nothing" to find the right house
10 years ago today, Feb 13, 2015, @ij.org published our 1st Short Circuit newsletter. Thanks to all who have read @johnkennethross.bsky.social's weekly work since the beginning (the few the proud!) or have joined along the way. Here's a short 🧵down memory lane (this is our original webpage). 1/
13.02.2025 15:12 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
It's the latest episode of #BoundByOath, our legal history podcast! Get the real story of Camara v. Municipal Court (1967). With an interview of Marshall Krause, who argued the rental inspection case on behalf of Roland Camara.
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THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS GRANTED CERT IN @IJ.org CASE MARTIN V. UNITED STATES!!!
27.01.2025 22:32 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
2025 marks 10 years of Short Circuit. We've holding a party & you're invited!
April 3 @ 7pm in DC. See Judges Diane Wood & Kent Jordan @adamliptak.bsky.social Eugene Volokh @volokhc.bsky.social @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social @conlawwarrior.bsky.social plus @ij.org folks. Register below! #AppellateSky
Rhonda Olson standing on her mountainous property in the northwest corner of Humboldt County, CA. She's holding a Notice of Violation that charged her with millions in fines for someone else's conduct.
Humboldt fined Rhonda Olson $7.47M for property she just bought for $60K. The fines were because the prior owner grew weed on land that loggers had graded without a permit back in the 80s. The trial court said she had no constitutional case.
Last week, the Ninth Circuit reversed: bit.ly/4a9Nsi7. 🧵
The latest episode of #BoundByOath! We look at SWAT tactics & ask: who pays the tab when the government damages or destroys private property for the public good—the unlucky owner or the public as a whole?
W/ @mollyxbrady.bsky.social @pjaicomo.bsky.social & Jeffrey Redfern!
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We won (on 9 of our 10 issues on appeal)!
Sometimes looking crazy pays off.
The Ninth Circuit ruled that we stated four constitutional claims against Humboldt County’s extortive use of fines against anyone they suspected of growing weed without a permit.
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Here's the complaint. The officers did have a search warrant, but the claim is that the warrant did not authorize a pre-dawn, no-knock raid.
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🚨#QUALIFIEDIMMUNITY CERT ALERT🚨
In October, @ij.org filed cert. on behalf of an innocent family, subjected to a #WrongHouseRaid in the Dallas metro area.
In Jimerson v. Lewis, we ask #SCOTUS to either hear the case or summarily reverse the 5th Cir.'s grant of QI. 1/10
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Sad news: The Tennessee Supreme Court has affirmed the right of SLAPP-suit filers to evade consequences by nonsuiting: tncourts.gov/sites/defaul.... The calamitous effects of this ruling are guaranteed.
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