October 2, 2014

POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Thursday 10/2, I distributed one handout, my version of the Speelman case brief. We first finished off our discussion of Glucksberg, going over the legitimate interests that Washington has in criminalizing assisted suicide, and also talking briefly about Justice Souter's concurring opinion. We then began our discussion of Speelman, getting to the part of the brief in which the Housing Authority claimed that the previous Washington Supreme Court case, State v. Nelson, mandated that their notice was good enough. We will pick up at that point on Tuesday. The additional assignment for Tuesday 10/7 is to do a case brief of the next case in the text, Katko v. Briney (through p. 43 of the text). Katko is again a practice case brief, but my plan is to give you the first graded case brief assignment on Tuesday 10/7, to be due Thursday 10/16.


POS 484 CRIMINAL DUE PROCESS
In class today, Thursday 10/2,we went through the majority decision in Navarette, including some discussion of how it might fit into outline form. I also went into some more depth about Alabama v. White and Florida v. J.L., particularly the vote breakdown and dissenting view in White. The assignment for Tuesday 10/7 is to finish your Navarette outline, due at the beginning of class on Tuesday.