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POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Tuesday 3/17, I handed back the exams, and we went over them. We then went over some questions about and aspects of the Bragg case brief. The assignment for Thursday 3/19 is to finish the Bragg case briefs, due at the beginning of Thursday's class. If you cannot be in class Thursday, you can email your case brief to me. I will confirm the receipt of the case brief (no confirmation means no receipt). Also on Thursday, we'll go over Suggs v.Norris, previously assigned.

POS 383 AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
In class today, Tuesday 3/17, I handed back the exams, and we went over them. For the remainder of the class I discussed how the oral argument in the ACA subsidy case, King v. Burwell, indicated that the fate of the ACA subsidies for individual policies may well hinge on the concept of coercion. The assignment for Thursday 3/19 is to review the previous assignment, Arizona v. U.S. (p. 385) and the handout about federal preemption of Maine's law allowing the importation of drugs from foreign pharmacies.