April 21, 2009

POS 359--The Current Supreme Court Term
In class today, Tuesday 4/21, the class first did evaluations. I briefly went over the week's oral argument schedule. We then went over a decision from earlier in the month, Entergy v. Riverkeeper, in which the majority of the Court approved of the EPA's use of a cost/benefit analysis in deciding what is the "best technology " available to minimize environmental impact. The assignment for Thursday 4/23 is to read the transcript of the oral argument in the case of Safford v. Redding, which was argued today.

CMJ 375--Mass Media Law
In class today, Tuesday 4/21, the class first did evaluations. I went over the previously assigned fair use cases of the Nation and Campbell. We then went over two Court of Appeals cases, Hustler Magazine v. Moral Majority, and Nunez v. Caribbean International News Corp. The assignment for Thursday 4/23 is to finish reading Chapter 8 in the text (trademark and unfair competition), and to read on p. 202 of the casebook the case of Time v. Petersen.