POS 359--The Current Supreme Court Term
In class today, Thursday 1/15, we went over two Supreme Court decisions from yesterday. Oregon v. Ice dealt with the 6th Amendment power of judges, (as opposed to juries), to decide facts relating to the imposition of consecutive, rather than concurrent, sentences of imprisonment. We also started to go over yesterday's case of Herring v. U.S., dealing with the suppression of evidence under an unconstitutional (4th amendment) search and seizure. We will finish that discussion of Herring next Tuesday. The assignment for Tuesday 1/20 is to read in Toobin through the end of Part One (Chapter 10).
CMJ 375--Mass Media Law
In class today, Thursday 1/15, we went over some of the concepts of Chapter 1 of the text. In particular, we discussed citation format (and the information that can be gleaned from citations), the Maine court system, and Federal court jurisdiction. As an illustration of the interrelationship between federal and state courts, and federal and state law, I went over the defamation case of Levinsky's v. Wal-Mart from the United States Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. The assignment for Tuesday 1/20 is to read and prepare to discuss in the text pages 33-57, and to read in the casebook the Tornillo case on page 13 and the Simon and Shuster case on p. 17.
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