February 14, 2014

POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
With classes cancelled today, you should email your Johndro case briefs to me on FirstClass by 9:00, and be sure that you get my confirmation (I have already had a number of attachments that I could not open). On Monday, I will return the case briefs and we will go over them. The additional assignment for Monday 2/17 is to read and brief (for yourselves only - not handed in or graded) p.36-41 (Katko v. Briney).


POS 384 CIVIL LIBERTIES
With classes cancelled today, we will put off our review of Texas v. Johnson and Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire until Monday. The additional assignment I would like you to do for Monday 2/17 is to go through both the Brennan majority opinion and the Rehnquist dissent in Johnson, and to outline the opinion. In the edited textbook version the opinion is (to paraphrase Elbert Hubbard) one damn paragraph after the other. Going pretty much paragraph by paragraph, figure out what the Roman Numerals of the structure are (like Introduction, First Issue, Second Issue, etc.) and then the subparts of each section. Each part of the outline should have have a label and a brief statement of the point made in that section. This outline is not to be handed in or graded.


POS 359 THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT TERM
With classes cancelled today, I will hand back the McCullen papers on Monday. The assignment for Monday 2/17 remains to read and prepare to discuss the Petitioner's Brief in Lozano (the child abduction case).