Unpublished Opinions

Unpublished Opinions


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Unpublished Opinions 15 | The Oz Machine
May 28, 2025

Done with oral argument at SCOTUS in Martin v. United States, Patrick Jaicomo and Anya Bidwell rejoin the rotation to yell at clouds and, along with this months host, give their unpublished opinions

Unpublished Opinions 14 | On the Garamond Question
April 29, 2025

Spring hath finally shaken off the winter of Arlingtons discontent, and host John Wrench gathers IJ barristers Sam Gedge and Josh Windham for a scene that proves that all the laws a stage. The trio

Unpublished Opinions 13 | You’re Yucking My Yum
March 20, 2025

A flurry of ideas about the state of the law, the universe, and, well, everything. Including, at least, the impeachment of judges, how lawyers educate each other through media, corpus linguistics and

Unpublished Opinions 12 | Raise You a Texas
February 17, 2025

John Wrench of IJ returns as your host for some courthouse conversations with his colleagues Diana Simpson and Josh Windham. They spill out their opinions on what can be weird about state court legal

Unpublished Opinions 11 | Bush v. Gore Energy
January 19, 2025

In our first episode of 2025 we livecast a Supreme Court opinion whose release happened to cross into our pre-scheduled recording slotthe ruling in the TikTok case. Our comments relevance and time

Unpublished Opinions 10 | TikTok Law Review
December 16, 2024

John Wrench of IJ takes the reins and the show quickly descends into law review comedy hour with footnotes of puns dominating the discourse. If you have to drop a footnote, perhaps you shouldnt make

Unpublished Opinions 9 | We Should Get a Cape
November 25, 2024

Unpublished Opinions 9 | We Should Get a Cape Its time for our panel to wig out. For some. Others are not exactly excited about judges (or advocates) wearing wigs. Before that, though, your chatty

Unpublished Opinions 8 | I’m More of a Space Lawyer
October 07, 2024

Its our first breakout episode where we have our own feed and webpageplus our own logo. And that means its time to get into the legal weeds. Sam Gedge, John Wrench, and Anthony Sanders of the Inst

Unpublished Opinions 7 | Ignorant Bliss
June 10, 2024

Another episode of that podcast thats not Short Circuit but features Institute for Justice attorneys talking about the law. Anya Bidwell rejoins the panel while she waits for the opinion in her Supre

Unpublished Opinions 6 | Little Contract Tricks
April 29, 2024

Its been a while but were back with an episode of Unpublished Opinions. Herein IJ attorneys Anya Bidwell, Patrick Jaicomo, and your host talk about . . . Anyas recent Supreme Court oral argument, h