Short Circuit 218 | Because the Supreme Court Did Some Things It Did

A couple issues near-and-dear to many of your hearts this week: Money and Facebook. First, if you win a case against the government are you a "prevailing party" deserving of an attorneys fees award? North Carolina officials argued you're not if you do so well that the law you're challenging actually disappears. Luckily the Fourth Circuit shot that argument down. Alexa Gervasi explains. But meanwhile the Sixth Circuit shot down quite a lot of the First and Fourth Amendments when a police department took great vengeance upon a man with the audacity to . . . create a parody Facebook page. As Ari Bargil tells us, it's a case demonstrating why everyone hates lawyers.

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Grabarczyk v. Stein, https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/211209.P.pdf

Novak v. City of Parma, https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/22a0090p-06.pdf

Alexa Gervasi, https://ij.org/staff/alexa-gervasi/

Ari Bargil, https://ij.org/staff/ari-bargil/

Anthony Sanders, https://ij.org/staff/asanders/