September 8, 2009

POS 282--Introduction to American Law
In class today, Tuesday 9/8, I distributed one handout, the parade ordinances for Augusta and Bangor. We finished our discussion of AAC v. Dearborn case, and completed going over the Sample Brief for that case. We went over the concepts of mandatory and persuasive authority. I also talked about the recent First Circuit case of Sullivan v. City of Augusta, 511 F.3d 16 (1st Cir., 2007) in which there were challenges to the Augusta parade ordinance similar to the challenges in AAC. On Thursday 9/10 we will go over the Bangor parade ordinance. The assignment for Thursday 9/10 is to read through p. 46 of the textbook (the Doe case). Prepare to discuss "Holdings" for the Glucksberg case (p. 33) and the Doe case (p. 44).