Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
New on the Short Circuit podcast: Won't you take me to YIMBYTown? • This D.C. Circuit case has it all! Sovereign immunity! Arbitrability! Equatoguinean law! • IRS: Sure, sure, federal law requires us to pay whistleblowers a percentage of what we recover based on their reports of misconduct, and, yes, this whistleblower spent years meeting with IRS officials and trumpeting the wrongdoing he'd found in the media, and, of course, we paid him the full percentage for four of the companies he blew the whistle on, but this fifth company he also blew the whistle on at the same time? Yeah, that one we would have found all by ourselves (we assert without evidence). D.C.