September 28, 2010

POS 282--Introduction to American Law
In class today, Tuesday 9/28, I distributed two handouts: my version of the Katko case brief, and the graded assignment for next Tuesday that is reproduced below. We went over the Connecticut v. Doe case, and the began our discussion of the Katko case. We will continue with that case on Thursday. The assignment for Thursday 9/30 is to begin work on the assignment below:

Assignment due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, October 5, 2010

The assignment is to do a Case Brief of the case of Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. of Health. The case can be found on the website of our textbook.

To access the case, go to

http://college.hmco.com/pic/schubert9e

select “instructor companion site”

select “general resources”

select “retired cases”

select Cruzan v. Director

The Brief should be in exactly the format used in the Sample Brief Template distributed in class, and the Case Briefs distributed (AAC, Glucksberg and Katko).

In addition to the usual segments of the brief, though, include a few sentences that explain the view of the Dissenting Justices; no particular format is needed for this section.

Please make two copies of your brief, one to hand in at the beginning of class, and the other for you to have during class for our discussion.

You may e-mail me if you have questions about the brief. The more time that I have to answer our questions, the more likely it is that i can be helpful.

If you cannot be in class on Tuesday 10/5, you should still e-mail me your brief by the beginning of class time. If you do that, you will not have any grade deducted from your grade for the brief. If you do not, you should still contact me as soon as possible to see what options are available to you. (Generally, I do not want to accept assignments after we have discussed them in class). See the Syllabus for the class rules regarding late papers.

IMPORTANT: If you e-mail your paper to me, I will reply to confirm that I have received your assignment. If I do not reply, then I have not received the assignment.