November 10, 2009

POS 282--Introduction to American Law
In class today, Tuesday 11/10, I handed back the Flaherty case briefs, as well as a comment key, and we briefly discussed those briefs. We discussed the Land v. Yamaha case at p. 180 of the text, and how federal courts apply conflict of laws rules. I described the broad outline of the concept of personal jurisdiction, and then we began a discussion of the Constitutional requirement of Full Faith and Credit. I distributed a handout that had the federal and state statutes that deny Full Faith and Credit to same sex marriages from states that do allow those marriages into states that do not allow those marriages. On Thursday, 11/12, we will begin with the previously assigned Karstetter case on p. 145. The additional assignment is to read in the text and prepare to discuss pp. 152-167.