POS 359--The Current Supreme Court Term
In class today, Thursday 2/5, we continued our discussion of the Summum case and the prediction assignment. We included two sub-questions to address--how the Justices seem to feel about the need for and appropriateness of signs (explaining whose speech this is) and the question of hybrid categories (as opposed to the two choices of government speech versus private speech. The assignment for Tuesday 2/10 is to continue working on the papers, which are due Thursday 2/12.
CMJ 375--Mass Media Law
In class today, Thursday 2/5, we began with a short sample test, which demonstrated the types of questions and strategies for coming up with the correct answers. We then continued the discussion of defamation. I went over two Maine Supreme Court case regarding defamation, Haworth v. Feigon and Caron v. Bangor Publishing. On Tuesday 2/10 we'll have our first exam. Please bring a #2 pencil to fill in the little circles.
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