January 31, 2008

POS 282--Introduction to American Law
In class today, Thursday 1/31, we finished talking about the Glucksberg case, and discussed the case of Connecticut v. Doe. We began talking about the Katko case, and how to brief it. I distributed 2 handouts, one a brief of the Katko case, and the second the homework assignment due next Thursday 2/7. The assignment for Tuesday 2/5 is to prepare to discuss the remainder of Chapter 1 of the text.

The written assignment due at the beginning of class on Thursday 2/7 is to do a Case Brief of the case of Goss v. Lopez. The case can be found on the website of our textbook.

To access the case, go to

http://college.hmco.com/pic/schubert9e

select “student website”

select “general resources”

select “additional cases”

select “chapter 1”

select “Goss v. Lopez”

The Brief should be in exactly the format used in the Sample Brief Template distributed in class, and the two Case Briefs distributed.

Please make two copies of your brief, one to hand in at the beginning of class, and the other for you to have during class for our discussion.

You may e-mail me if you have questions about the brief. The more time that I have to answer our questions, the more likely it is that I can be helpful.

If you cannot be in class on Thursday 2/7, you should still e-mail me your brief by the beginning of class time. If you do that, you will not have any grade deducted from your grade for the brief. If you do not, you should still contact me as soon as possible to see what options are available to you. (Generally, I do not want to accept assignments after we have discussed them in class). See the Syllabus for the class rules regarding late papers.


CMJ 375--Mass Media Law
In class today, Thursday 1/31, we began out discussion of Chapter 3 of the text. I distributed one handout, an excerpt from HR 1955. We will finish talking about Chapter 3 on Tuesday 2/5. The assignment is to review Chapter 3, and also to read Chapter 4 of the text, which we will begin next week after we finish Chapter 3.