April 12, 2012

POS 282--Introduction to American Law
In class today, Thursday 4/12, I collected the Collins briefs, and we spent most of the class going over them. I plan to return those on Tuesday. I also went over the case of Flaherty v. Allstate, a Maine case involving conflict of laws in an insurance contract. The assignment for Tuesday 4/17 is to finish reading Chapter 3 of the text, including the previously unassigned cases of Strunk (p.109) and Finstuen (p. 116).


POS 359--The Current Supreme Court Term
In class today, Thursday 4/12, we first continued our discussion of the Individual Mandate portion of the ACA argument, and then started into the Medicaid expansion part. For the last part of the class, we took a departure from our usual discussion, and listened instead to the streaming audio of the Maine Supreme Court argument regarding the respective rights of a "gestational carrier" (surrogate mom) and genetic mom, when the state court won't declare the genetic mom to be the legal mom. The assignment for Tuesday 4/17 is to review the oral argument of the Medicaid expansion (Wednesday) part of the ACA case.