September 21, 2010

POS 282--Introduction to American Law
In class today, Tuesday 9/21, I distributed one handout, my version of the Issues in the Glucksberg case. I stressed the importance of making sure that you either check your maine.edu e-mail account, or else forward that mail to an account that you do check. We finished going over the Glucksberg case, including a lesson in how a court treats precedent: following, distinguishing, reversing or overruling it. We also went over the difference between concurring in the Opinion of the court, versus concurring just in the court's Judgment. We went over the 1986 decision of Bowers v. Hartwick, and began our discussion of Lawrence v. Texas. We will conclude our discussion of Lawrence on Thursday. The additional assignment for Thursday 9/23 is to read through p. 46 of the text, preparing again (write out, but not to hand in) the Issues in Connecticut v. Doe.