March 29, 2013

POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Friday 3/29, I first talked about my plan to assign the next brief on or before Friday 4/5, to be due Friday 4/12. We then discussed legal ethics for lawyers. We went over the 2011 case of Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar v. Warren, in which the Maine Supreme Court looked at the ethical rule that compels Maine lawyers to disclose the dishonesty of other lawyers. We then discussed the Caperton case, focusing on the test that the Court created, and then how they applied that new test. I will start Monday by going over the dissenting opinion in Caperton, as will as some background to the case. The additional assignment for Monday 4/1 is to read through p. 97 of the text (Gonzales v. Raich).



POS 384 CIVIL LIBERTIES
In class today, Friday 3/29, I began by making a flow chart regarding protected speech that gave some structure to the list that the textbook provides on p. 328-329. We went over the O'Brien case, focusing on the test that the Court created, and then how they applied that new test. We started on the structure of the Court's decision in Texas v. Johnson. We will begin on Monday with an analysis of how the two justifications given by Texas for their law were dealt with in the Court's opinion. The additional assignment for Monday 4/1 is read through p. 244 of the text (Chaplinsky and Cohen).