February 18, 2010

POS 359--The Current Supreme Court Term
In class today, Thursday 2/18, I went over three habeus corpus cases from the current term. I then went over the Supreme Court's oral argument schedule for next week, after its February slumber. Next week, I will go over the rest of the oral argument schedule for the time that the University is on spring break. The assignment for Tuesday 2/23 is to read the petitioner McDonald's brief in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago. That case will be argued on Tuesday March 2. Start at the Supreme Court's site (www.supremecourtus.gov); select "Merits briefs" and then "On-line merits briefs"; scroll down the alphabetical list until you select McDonald v. City of Chicago; then select "Brief for Petitioner". The reading is 91 pages long.