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Summary Judgment is a podcast about the law. It aims to offer an easy-to-understand summary of major court decisions as they are decided. Law is often made to seem mysterious to the lay pers...
This week we examine a decision by the Iowa Supreme Court interpreting both the Fourth Amendment and the parallel provision under the Iowa C...
This week, we examine the Third Circuit's recent decision about whether a jurisdiction-stripping statute in the Immigration and Nationality...
This week, we examine a Southern District of New York decision about the President's decision to block his critics on Twitter and whether th...
This week, we examine the Fourth Circuit's decision about searching cell phones at the border.
This week, we examine the Ninth Circuit's opinion about whether animals can sue under the copyright act in the so-called "Monkey Selfie" cas...
This week, we examine a Texas Court of Appeals case which examined the constitutionality of the State's "revenge porn" law.
This week, we examine the Ninth Circuit's ruling on the Government's request for a writ of mandamus, ordering the District Court to dismiss...
This week, we examine the Sixth Circuit's ruling that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects transgendered individuals and those tr...
This week, we examine the Northern District of Florida's decision in a challenge to the State's voting restoration scheme for convicted felo...
This week, we discuss the Second Circuit's ruling on whether the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial was violated by a nearly 7 year del...
This week, we examine the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision regarding partisan gerrymandering.
This week, we look at the Northern District of California's decision to issue a nationwide injunction requiring the Department of Homeland S...
This week, we examine a decision by the Southern District of California regarding the right of a student-athlete to kneel during the playing...
This week, we're discussing Dassey v. Dittmann, the 7th Circuit's en banc consideration of Brandon Dassey's confession in a case made famous...
WARNING: This week's episode may not be safe for work or to listen to with young children. This week, we examine the Fourth Circuit's decisi...
This week, we examine the jury's decision in the case involving the murder of Kate Steinle, which rocketed "sanctuary cities" to national at...
This week, we discuss the Sixth Circuit's decision about unmasking an anonymous blogger who was found liable for copyright infringement.
This week we examine the 7th Circuit's decision regarding the City of Chicago's ordinance which bans public nudity by women. It was challeng...
This week, we discuss the controversial petition for certiorari filed by the Solicitor General in the Hargan v. Garza, the case of an unacco...
This week, we examine the Ninth Circuit's decision upholding Montana's campaign contribution limits in the wake of Citizens United v. FEC an...
This week we look at the D.C. Circuit's recent en banc decision about the right of an undocumented teen immigrant to receive an abortion whi...
This week's episode looks at a Fourth Circuit decision about the First Amendment rights of public employees and under what circumstances the...
This week's episode examines the Ninth Circuit's en banc decision about zoning ordinances dealing with gun stores. In a divided opinion, the...
This week, we examine a ban on signs on freeway overpasses and bad behavior by a town's police chief.
This week, we examine a Second Circuit case involving a defamation claim arising out of a now-retracted article published by Rolling Stone M...
This week, we examine a Sixth Circuit case dealing with the right of a criminal defendant to confront the witnesses against him, when the de...
This week, we discuss probable cause, shopping at Costco, coded phrases for drugs, and a snarky dissent by Judge Alex Kozinski in the Ninth...
This week we look at the case of a cadet at West Point who was raped and who attempted to sue the Generals acting as Superintendent and Comm...
This week, we discuss Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, a Ninth Circuit case about a school district employee who engaged in public pray...
This week we look at the Eighth Circuit's review of the Nebraska Funeral Picketing Law which was challenged by the Westboro Baptist Church.
This week we look at the Third Circuit's ruling in a challenge to the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate, which requires insurers t...
This week's episode looks at the D.C. Circuit's opinion regarding government contractors accused of killing or wounding over 30 Iraqi civili...
This week's episode covers the D.C. Circuit's recent decision on the reach of the Second Amendment and whether the District of Columbia can...
This week's episode examines the 2nd Circuit's decision about whether the Fifth Amendment applies to testimony compelled by a foreign govern...
This week, we look at the Fourth Circuit's en banc decision striking down Rowan County, North Carolina's practice of opening county meetings...
Things get a bit heated this week as I discuss Rivera v. Bonner and Mull, a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision dealing with a lawsuit o...
This week, I discuss the Texas Supreme Court's recent decision regarding the ability of the City of Houston to offer benefits to the spouses...
This episode examines Hernandez v. Mesa, the Supreme Court's decision about a cross-border shooting and the ability of the victim's family t...
This week, we look at Ziglar v. Abbasi , the Supreme Court's decision about whether September 11 detainees could sue several federal agents...
An analysis of the Seventh Circuit's ruling regarding the use of restrooms by transgender high school students.
A recap of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in IRAP v. Trump, dealing with the Executive Order commonly known as the "Travel Ba...
A recap of the Supreme Court's recent gerrymandering decision in Cooper v. Harris.