Class Assignments - Fall 2008
Class assignments are listed by course and professor. All will be posted as
received. If you do not see the assignments you are looking for, check TWEN,
your professor's personal homepage or just keep checking this site; assignments
will be posted as soon as they are received.
Updated: August 7, 2:00 p.m.
The class meets for the first time on Wednesday evening, August 27, in the
7:30 to 9:20 p.m. time slot, in room 109. Please come to class having read the
following cases and prepared to discuss the nature, implications, and regulation
of commercial speech:
Central Hudson Gas & Electric v. Pub. Svc. Comm., 447 US 557 (1980)
Bolger v. Youngs Drug Product Inc., 463 US 60 (1983)
Kasky v. Nike, 45 P.3d 243 (Cal 2002)
You may obtain this case from Westlaw, Lexis, Findlaw, or any other such resources.
Please note that there are no materials required to be purchased for the course.
All assigned readings will consist of cases, statutes, regulations, and articles
that may be found on the Web or will be posted on the TWEN
site for the course. It is critical that everyone enrolled for the course subscribe
to and frequently access the course TWEN
site.
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August 28 - Overview: The industry & its products; what beverage law is;
why it's interesting; explanation of syllabus, exams, paper and expectations.
U.S. Constitution, Art. I, §§ 8-10; Art. VI; Amendments 1, 4, 5,
10, 14 (§§ 1 & 5), 16, 18 & 21; Washington Constitution, Art.
XI, § 11; Art. XXVII, §§ 17 & 18; Bittker, §§ 13.01-13.03;
Granholm v. Heald, 544 U.S. 460 (2005).
For cultural assumptions underlying regulatory system, see “The Rockefeller
Report” (1933), in Fosdick & Scott, Toward Liquor Control, Forward,
Preface and chapters 1-3 & 7; for wine industry orientation, see publications
listed at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/food_wine/wine_resources.html;
for illustration of contemporary issues, see "Notes on Wine Distribution,"
via link on home page at www.CorbinCounsel.com.
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Civil Procedure (CIVL-100-A)
Professor Julie Shapiro
Week 1:
Monday, August 25. Orientation to the course. Please look
over the TWEN
site, once it is available. In addition read pages 1-12 in the casebook. We
will be spending the first week of class on Band’s Refuse, focusing on
the questions below. We will not get to all of these questions during the first
class period, but you should read them all both before and after you read the
case and then read them again between classes.
It will take you some time to work through the facts and procedure of Band’s
Refuse. It’s important that you do so. Do not despair or lose heart. It
will get easier after this.
To begin with, outline the chronology of the underlying events as well as the
litigation. This may take you some time, but it is a very important place to
start. Who are the main players in the drama? What did each of them actually
do? You might also want to think about why they acted as they did. All the actors
in the cases we read make choices, and it is often their choices we will focus
on.
When did the events giving rise to the case begin? What actions occur before
the lawsuit is filed? When was lawsuit filed, by whom and for what? How did
each of the parties get into the litigation? Think about why the parties and
the lawyers acted as they did during the litigation, too. What significant events
took place during the litigation? What claims were raised by the plaintiff?
What happened to them? What was the result at trial? What issues are raised
in the appeal? What did the trial judge do wrong? There are three issues, but
they overlap to some degree. Try to figure out the arguments about each. What
is the result on appeal? Who won the case in the most immediate sense? Who won
the case if you take a longer view? Why did the judge do what he did? Did he
do the right thing? What’s the best argument you can think of in defense
of the judge’s actions? What should the role of the judge be and why?
Wednesday, August 27. Re-read the case. Read 12-18 in the
casebook. Continue class discussion of Band’s Refuse. Review questions
above.
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Textbooks:
We will use Albert Hourani’s A History of the Arab Peoples (“H”),
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Nai’im’s Toward an Islamic Reformation
(“An-Naim”) and the coursepack available on TWEN,
along with articles available on the web.
First Assignment - Thursday, August 28:
Please read pp. 1-80 in the Hourani text.
A tentative syllabus will be placed on TWEN.
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Contracts B & E (CONT-100-B &
CONT-100-E)
Professor DeLong
Students, please download the Contracts
Workbook and the Contracts
Supplement for your first week (and initial) class assignments. These are
also posted on TWEN
and can be accessed there once you are given your WestLaw passwords during orientation.
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Tuesday and Thursday August 26 & 28:
Text: Kamisar, LaFave & Israel, Advanced Criminal Procedure (12th
edition). In addition to the text listed, students should access the TWEN
course materials which contain the Criminal Rules for the Superior Court for
the State of Washington and various readings. In addition, we will be using
the 2008 Case Supplement for: Modern Criminal Procedure, Basic Criminal
Procedure, & Advanced Criminal Procedure, (12th Edition) by Kamisar,
et al.
Class 1 & 2:
- Chapter 1: Overview of Criminal Justice Process, pp. 1-27. Flow
Chart of a Criminal Case on TWEN.
- Register for TWEN.
The syllabus and other materials are posted there.
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First Week Reading Assignments – I**
| August 25 & 27: |
Perspectives: Ecology & Economic Policy |
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Casebook# pp. 7 – 12 and 16 – 32. Problem pp. 32 –
36 (Aug. 25). |
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Reader+ pp. 1 – 29 (esp. 5 – 10 & 10A - 10i Aug 25. R.
pp. 29 – 47B Aug. 27 |
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Videos: The Arctic as Commons & Global Warming |
#H. Doremus, et al. Environmental Policy Law (5th ed. 2008).
+H. W. McGee, Jr., Environmental Law Reader (200). On TWEN & Library
Reserve.
J. G. Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World, etc. (2008).
Thompson/West Pub. Co., Selected Environmental Law Statutes (2008 –
2009).
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All assignments for Evidence are from Green, Nesson, and Murray, Problems,
Cases and Materials on Evidence (3rd. Ed.), and the photocopied
“Blanche v. Stevens” casefile, available in the Bookstore.
For the first class (Monday, August 25, 2008), please read:
Pp. 1-7; 13 (“The Pizza”); 15-16; 23-25.
A syllabus will be provided at the first class.
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All assignments for Evidence are from Green, Nesson, and Murray, Problems,
Cases and Materials on Evidence (3rd. Ed.), and the photocopied
“Blanche v. Stevens” casefile, available in the Bookstore.
For the first class (Tuesday, August 26, 2008), please read:
Pp. 1-7; 13 (“The Pizza”); 15-16; 23-25.
A syllabus will be provided at the first class.
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Evidence Lab meets seven times beginning the fifth week of the semester (Wednesday,
September 24th). All assignments for the course are from Mitchell & Barron,
Seattle University Skills Series: Evidence, available in the bookstore.
The assignment for the first class is:
- 1("Two Views of One Person")
Appendices A-1 in the case file
A syllabus will be provided at the first class.
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Texts:
- O'Sullivan, Federal White Collar Crime (3d ed. 2007), ISBN 978-0-314-16778-1
(Bookstore)
- O’Sullivan, Federal White Collar Crime, 2007 Statutory Supplement,
available on TWEN
in the Course Materials Folder, online at www.federalwhitecollarcrime.org.
Tuesday and Thursday August 26 & 28:
- Definition of White Collar Crime and Intro to Class Chapter One, PP. 1 –
51 in the textbook.
- Register for TWEN.
The syllabus and other materials are posted there.
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| August 27: |
The Right to Housing and the Homeless |
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Rachel Myers, Washington Low Income Housing Alliance |
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Casebook pp. 40 – 73**. Reader pp. 1-65 – 1-114.# (1- 1 –
1-54E by semester’s end.) |
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Advocates Guide^ pp. 34 – 35, 112 – 115; 121—122 &
147 – 148. |
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Video: Homelessness |
**C. Daye, H.W. McGee et al., Housing and Community Development (3D
ED. 1999).
#H.W.McGee, Housing Reader (2007), on TWEN.
^NLIHC, 2006 Advocates' Guide to Housing and Community Development.
class distribution or Nora Santos, 4th floor Secretarial Pool.
+R. Green & S. Malpezzi, U.S. Housing Markets and Housing Policy
(2003), Law
Library Reserve.
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