March 29, 2018

POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Thursday 3/29, we first finished our discussion of Holland v. Florida. We also looked at the Maine and federal statutes from last week's handout regarding the duty to report in various settings and circumstances. Then we went through Glassford v. BrickKicker, looking at the authority relied on, the three legal issues presented in the case, and the facts relied on by the Court in deciding those issues. Finally, I went over the 2017 case of Kindred Nursing Centers v. Clark, in which the U.S. Supreme Court found that a Kentucky Supreme Court restriction on arbitration clauses was preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act. There was one other current arbitration case, Epic Systems v. Lewis, that I did not have time to discuss today, and that I plan to lead off with next Tuesday.
The assignment for Tuesday 4/3 is to read in the text pp. 77 through the end of Chapter 2, including Caperton v. Massey Coal.


POS 484 CRIMINAL DUE PROCESS
In class today, Thursday 3/29, we first finished our discussion of Hudson, including the majority, concurrence, and dissent. I then talked about 2 more recent cases about suppression, Davis v. U.S. (dealing with good faith reliance on controlling precedent) and Utah v. Strieff (dealing with attenuated causation). We then left the 4th Amendment, and turned to the 5th and 6th Amendments. We started with the text of those two Amendments, and discussed what the text itself might mean (in contrast to what the Court has said that they mean). We then turned to today's assigned case Escobedo. We got through the facts of the case, but that was all. So we will pick up with the rest of Escobedo on Tuesday.
The assignment for Tuesday 4/3 is to review Escobedo, and then to read Miranda (through p. 530 of the text).