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When Can Your Past Bar You From a Job—And When Should It?
In Virginia, any one of 176 so-called barrier crimes can disqualify a person from work in certain occupations for life—no matter how old the conviction, how unrelated it is to the ...
Grand Theft Auto in Wilmington, Delaware
In Wilmington, Delaware, any car with more than $200 in outstanding fines can be towed by private towing companies. Vehicle owners have no way to contest the tickets or seizure wit...
IJ at 30: IJ President Scott Bullock on the Cases and Clients that Changed IJ and the Law (A Deep Dive Best Of)
Before he was IJ’s president, Scott Bullock spent 25 years as an IJ attorney. In this episode, he recounts his years in the trenches as a litigator, from the first case he litigate...
Will the Supreme Court overturn its infamous decision letting developers take your property?
Though Susette Kelo’s fight to save her home from her city’s efforts to take it for a private developer ended in 2005, the fight against eminent domain abuse has continued. In toda...
These People Lost $85 Million in an L.A. Heist…and the Robber was the FBI
In March 2021, FBI agents broke into private safe deposit boxes at the Southern California business U.S. Private Vaults and—though no individual box owner was suspected of wrongdoi...
Cities Caught Extracting Millions From Residents Through Fines and Fees Traps
In Episode 30 of Deep Dive, we talked about how fines for harmless property code violations could snowball into six-figure debt. All too often, municipalities set up these “taxatio...
Supreme Court Shuts Down Police on Entering Your Home Without a Warrant
This term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Caniglia v. Strom, a case about the “community caretaking” exception to the general principle that police need a war...
This Florida Woman Got a $100,000 Fine for Parking in Her Own Driveway
After Sandy Martinez got a ticket from Lantana, Florida, for parking her car with its wheels slightly outside her driveway and on the grass in her yard, she didn’t know that she wa...
These Laws Let Your Competitors Decide When Your Business is “Needed”
When IJ client Abdallah Batayneh tried to open a resort shuttle service in rural Colorado, his application was denied by a state regulatory agency at the same time it assured him t...
Law for Non-Lawyers – Standards of Review (A Deep Dive Best of)
What does it mean when courts apply “strict scrutiny” in their review of a law? Why do property, economic, and other vital liberties get only “rational basis” review? And why do th...
Bitcoin and the Constitution: Is Code Speech?
Although Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are hitting the mainstream, the way the law will treat them is still undeveloped. In this episode, we talk about how and whether the Fir...
“Predictive Policing” Algorithm Creates a Dystopian Nightmare for Residents of This Florida Town
When the Institute for Justice filed suit against the so-called predictive policing program in Pasco County, Florida, the Sheriff’s Office issued a statement saying that their prog...
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