POS 359--The Current Supreme Court Term
In class today, Tuesday 4/27, I began by emphasising a requirement of the CLS paper that's due on Thursday--that every part of the paper, including the Justice's questions during oral argument, needs to be complete with citations.
After that I went over some developments in the Court. The first was yesterday's grant of cert. in the California violent videos sales to minors case, Schwartzenegger v. Video Software Dealers. We discussed oral arguments in a case being argued today, Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Co. regarding the standards for granting injunctions against genetically modified alfalfa. Tomorrow's oral argument in Doe v. Reed takes on the right of petition-signers to keep their names private. We discussed three older oral arguments, Merck v. Reynolds, regarding the statute of limitations in securities fraud cases (and which was decided today against Merck); Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Fla. DEP, regarding the 5th Amendment taking clause in the context of efforts to stop beach erosion, and Samantar v. Yousef, regarding the immunity of foreign officials sued in the U.S. for the torture of victims back in their home country. The assignment for Thursday April 29 is to finish the CLS paper, which is due the beginning of class (9:30) on Thursday.
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