POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Monday 4/29,we went over Kopp and Gebbia. I then discussed a First Circuit case regarding the amount in controversy Abdel-Aleem v. OPK Biotech. There is no class on Wednesday 5/1 because of Maine Day. The assignment for Friday 5/3 is to finish reading chapter 4 of the text (the only additional case is Gilmore, p. 143).
POS 384 CIVIL LIBERTIES
In class today, Monday 4/29, I handed back the content-neutrality papers, and we went over them a bit. Regarding the exam on Friday May 10, we decided to start the exam at 8:30, rather than the official scheduled time of 8:00. We went over the arguments made by the state in Virginia v. Loving, and compared those arguments to those made in the two same-sex marriage cases before the Supreme Court this year, Hollingsworth v. Perry and U.S. v. Windsor. There is no class on Wednesday 5/1 because of Maine Day. The assignment for Friday 5/3 is to read in the text Grutter v. Bollinger (pp. 707-716) which we will discuss in conjunction with the current Supreme Court case regarding affirmative action in higher education, Fisher v. University of Texas.
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