POS 282 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW
In class today, Tuesday 3/5, I distributed 3 handouts: the Comment Key to the Carter case briefs, my version of the Speelman case brief, and some hypotheticals with variations on the Speelman case. I handed back the Carter case briefs, and we went over some aspects of the Comment Key, especially those things that are not "Facts". We then went over some sample questions in preparation for next Tuesday's Exam #1, including case citations and statutory citations. We went through the Speelman case and saw how the language of their letter sank the BHA's case. We will begin on Thursday with today's handout of hypotheticals, and then I want to go over the U.S. Supreme Court case involving the address on the envelope, Jones v. Flowers.
The assignment for Thursday 3/7 is to read today's handouts, prepare to discuss the hypotheticals, and read in the text and prepare to discuss pp. 38-43, including Katko v. Briney.
POS 359 THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT TERM
In class today, Tuesday 3/5, we first went over some sample questions in preparation for next Tuesday's Exam #1. We reviewed the Dunn v, Madison opinion of the Supreme Court, which said the the federal 11th Circuit had been wrong to say that the Alabama state competency court had been unreasonable in its application of the Ford/Panetti standard. We then went through the majority opinion in last week's Madison opinion, paying special attention to the outline of Kagan's opinion. There were two paragraphs of Kagan's opinion that I still want to spend more time on: ¶17 (and a word from ¶21) in terms of memory and ¶26 in terms of evidence and experts. We'll then go to the Madison dissent. And from there we'll go the the Timbs opinion, previously distributed.
The assignment for Thursday 3/7 is to review the Madison opinion, and to read (if you haven't done so already) the Timbs opinion.
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