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

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

Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New cert petition: Starting in 2011, then-16-year-old Hamdi Mohamud spent over two years in prison on bogus charges fabricated by a St. Paul police officer. Which is a bang-on Fourth Amendment violation, but the Eighth Circuit has twice held Hamdi has no cause of action because the officer (still employed and making six f…