October 19, 2016

POS 383 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
In class today, Wednesday 10/19, I collected the Raich outlines, and I distributed my version of the outline. I plan to hand back the graded outlines next week. We went over the outline. I also discussed the remand of the case in Raich v. Gonzales, (2007) in which the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Raich's substantive due process claim.
The class then took a practice test in preparation for next week's exam. The exam will be open book and open note. The best way to study for the exam is to review this blog, making sure that you're understanding the cases and concepts that are mentioned in the blog. Also check this blog to make sure that you've got all of the handouts. If you're missing any handouts, email me by 8:00 pm on Tuesday 10/25 to request them. The plan for the exam is to have it for the first 75 minutes of class (until 3:15). If there are no absences from class, we can go over the exam immediately after the break. If there are any absences, we'll go over the exam when I hand back the exams on 11/2.
We then continued through the assigned textbook cases on the commerce clause. I reviewed Gibbons v. Ogden, and then we went through Knight (p. 423), Stafford (p. 429), Champion (p. 432) and Hammer (p.435). The exam will cover material up through Hammer, and not the further textbook cases that were previously assigned but not gone through in class (pp. 463-466 and 473-492).
The assignment for Wednesday 10/26 is to prepare for the exam, and also to review the textbook materials that were previously assigned but not yet gone over in class (above).