December 4, 2008

POS 282--Introduction to American Law
In class today, Thursday 12/4, we began by doing class evaluations. I distributed 2 handouts--excerpts from the Maine Tort Claims Act, and my analysis of a logical problem in the Jewelers Mutual Insurance case from p. 261 of the text. I went over 2 Maine cases, one statute of limitations case (Kasu v. Blake) and one res judicata case (St. John v. Jordan). We discussed through the Solomon case in the text, and will pick up on Tuesday with the Boone case on p. 257. The assignment for Tuesday 12/9 is to review what's already been assigned (the remainder of Chapter 6 of the text), to read the handouts, and to read in the text and prepare to discuss through p. 276.

CMJ 375--Mass Media Law
The exam scheduled for Tuesday 12/16 at 2:45 has been moved to 120 Little Hall, (instead of our Bennett Hall classroom). In class today, Thursday 12/4, I went over 2Maine cases regarding the possibility of a constitutional reporter's privilege in Maine, State v. Hohler and in re Letellier. After we finished discussing reporter's shield law and privilege, we went on to discuss some of the concepts of copyright law. We went over the Feist case, and will pick up with the Eldred and CCNV cases on Tuesday. The assignment for Tuesday 12/9 is to review what's already been assigned, to read in the textbook from pp. 312-330, and to read in the casebook the Harper case on p. 186 and the Campbell case on p. 191.