Short Circuit 192 | Standing Up for a Dollar

It’s taken five years, but the clients of IJ senior attorney Paul Avelar can now finally get their day in court thanks to a ruling in the Ninth Circuit. Paul joins us to explain why it takes so long to just try and vindicate your rights, and how Arizona’s (thankfully former) civil forfeiture system allowed prosecutors to keep people’s property over and over again, including, at first, his client’s car. Meanwhile things got SALT-y in the Second Circuit where whatever you think about the state-and-local-income-tax deduction the court says it’s not constitutionally guaranteed. Former New Yorker and IJ attorney Will Aronin uses some family-friendly yet SALT-y language to describe the state’s high taxes and it and a few other states’ successful efforts to have standing, but unsuccessful attempts at anything else.

Transcript forthcoming.
Platt v. Moore, https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2021/10/04/19-15610.pdf
State of New York v. Yellen, https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/3d29ff16-5377-4bc7-8ba4-429d01cedd38/1/doc/19-3962_opn.pdf#xml=https://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/3d29ff16-5377-4bc7-8ba4-429d01cedd38/1/hilite/
Adam Shelton, The Article IV, Section 3 Controversy, https://ij.org/cje-post/the-article-iv-section-iii-controversy/
Paul Avelar, https://ij.org/staff/pavalar/
Will Aronin, https://ij.org/staff/will-aronin/
Anthony Sanders, https://ij.org/staff/asanders/

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