September 17, 2009

POS 282--Introduction to American Law

In class today, Thursday 9/17, I distributed two handouts, one a Sample Brief of the Katko case, and the other a graded homework assignment that is reproduced below and is due a week from today. We discussed Justice Souter's concurrence in Glucksberg, the Connecticut v. Doe decision, and then the Katko brief. I collected your Katko briefs, which will be returned next Tuesday. The assignment is to start working on the Goss assignment below:

Assignment due Thursday, September 24, 2009
The assignment is to do a Case Brief of the case of Goss v. Lopez. The case can be found on the website of our textbook.

To access the case, go to

http://college.hmco.com/pic/schubert9e
select “student companion site”
select “general resources”
select “additional cases”
select “Chapter 1”
select “Goss v. Lopez”

The Brief should be in exactly the format used in the Sample Brief Template distributed in class, and the three Case Briefs distributed (AAC, Glucksberg, and Katko).

Please make two copies of your brief, one to hand in at the beginning of class, and the other for you to have during class for our discussion.

You may e-mail me if you have questions about the brief. The more time that I have to answer our questions, the more likely it is that I can be helpful.

If you cannot be in class on Thursday 9/24, you should still e-mail me your brief by the beginning of class time. If you do that, you will not have any grade deducted from your grade for the brief. If you do not, you should still contact me as soon as possible to see what options are available to you. (Generally, I do not want to accept assignments after we have discussed them in class). See the Syllabus for the class rules regarding late papers.

IMPORTANT:If you e-mail your paper to me, I will reply to confirm that I have received your assignment. If I do not reply, then I have not received the assignment.