March 17, 2009

POS 359--The Current Supreme Court Term
In class today, Tuesday, 3/17, I showed the c-span interviews with the lawyers for the two sides in the Caperton case, and then we discussed some of the oral argument transcript in that case. We will continue that discussion on Thursday, The additional assignment for Thursday 3/19 is to read one of the Amicus briefs in the Caperton case, the "Brief of the Conference of Chief Justices in Support of Neither Party". You can access the brief by going to the Supreme Court site, selecting Merits Briefs/On-line Briefs/ Caperton, and then this brief is the next to the last one in the list.

CMJ 375--Mass Media Law
In class today, Tuesday, 3/17, I began by reminding the class that the second exam will be two weeks from today, Tuesday 3/31. We went back to our discussion of the four privacy torts by beginning with the Shulman case from the casebook. I went over three Maine invasion of privacy cases, Muratore v. Scotia Prince, Cole v. Chandler, and Halco v. Davey. We will pick up on Thursday with the Falwell case that was previously assigned. The additional assignment for Thursday 3/19 is to read the beginning of Chapter 6 of the text, pp. 214-223.