November 15, 2016

POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Tuesday 11/15, I first went over some scheduling plans. I plan to assign Case Brief #2 on Tuesday 11/29, to be due on the last day of class, Thursday 12/8. We began our discussion of the Land case by reviewing the concept of federal subject matter jurisdiction, including both federal question jurisdiction and diversity jurisdiction. We went over the Erie Doctrine. I talked about the definitions of Statutes of Repose v. Statutes of Limitation. With all that done, we then went over the Land case, and the question of whether it evidenced good or bad lawyering on the part of the Plaintiffs' attorney. I then went over a Maine case, Collins v. Trius, which applied Maine's conflict of law rules to a question of limitations on damages. We then turned to Full Faith and Credit and the Finstuen case. The assignment for Thursday 11/17 is to review Cheap Escape v. Haddox (previously assigned) and to read in addition Swoboda v. Hero Decks (through p. 136 of the text).