March 17, 2011

POS 359--The Current Supreme Court Term
In class today, Thursday 3/17, I first went over some more information about Jim Tierney's talks next week. If you are interested in attending the Wednesday talk about law school, he recommended that you read the 1/9/11 article in the NY Times (NYTimes.com) by David Segal entitled "Is Law School a Losing Game", which can be found at the URL:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E6DE143DF93AA35752C0A9679D8B63&ref=davidsegal
I collected the Kentucky v.King papers, and we discussed the case. I'm planning on returning those papers on Tuesday. The assignment for Tuesday 3/22 is to read the 2/28 U.S. Supreme court decision in Michigan v. Bryant, including Justice Scalia's dissent.

POS 282--Introduction to American Law
In class today, Thursday 3/17, I first went over some more information about Jim Tierney's talks next week. Rather than a regular class meeting next Tuesday, we will have him talk in our classroom about "Building Legal Infrastructure-in Bosnia and Elsewhere". (This is a change in location from what I announced in class and what was in the poster announcing the talk, which had put the talk in the Schoenberger Lounge).

If you are interested in attending the Wednesday talk about law school, Jim Tierney recommended that you read the 1/9/11 article in the NY Times (NYTimes.com) by David Segal entitled "Is Law School a Losing Game", which can be found at the URL:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E6DE143DF93AA35752C0A9679D8B63&ref=davidsegal

In class, we went over the Mobbley and Holland cases, and the Maine statute regarding hindering apprehension. We'll have Jim Tierney's talk on Tuesday, and on Thursday we'll continue with the Johnson punitive damages case, and so the only homework is to review the readings in the rest of Chapter two that were previously assigned.