April 10, 2013

POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Wednesday 4/10, we first went over some questions about the Davis case brief. I clarified that briefing the retroactivity issue meant that you're not briefing the issue of whether there was a Fourth Amendment violation in the Davis search, only whether there's a remedy for that admitted violation. I also clarified that, after Disposition, you should state the issue as Breyer saw it. We then went over the Hubbard case, discussing the concept of conflict of law rules, looking at existing Indiana precedent for those rules, and seeing how the Hubbard Court changed those rules in this case. We looked at the analysis as it's done under the new rules. We will pick up with the Land case (previously assigned, p. 146) on Friday. The assignment for Friday 4/12 is to finish work on the Davis case brief, which is due at the beginning of class, as well as to review Land.


POS 384 CIVIL LIBERTIES
In class today, Wednesday 4/10, we reviewed Stevens' opinion in Hill, and then went into both the Scalia and Kennedy dissents. I also talked about a 1997 Maine Superior Court decision, Bangor v. Stauble, which raised the constitutionality of Bangor's targeted residential picketing ordinance. We will start on Friday with the Court's analysis of the content-neutrality of the Bangor ordinance. The assignment for Friday 4/12 is to review the R.A.V. case, previously assigned, paying particular attention to the structure of that opinion.