Peters - SS 3990 Selected Topics in Constitutional Law: Rights, Liberties and Justice- Fall 2008

Readings

Most readings will be from Text Epstein, Constitutional Law, or the

textbook website: http://clca.cqpress.com/rights_topic_browse.htm

Other readings will be set out as links on the course schedule or if not available as external links they will be set out here.

Readings (Not Reserve)

Edited Opinions:

Website for many of the Opinions in the Text (edited) here:  (Edited Opinions fromof John Scheb, UT Knoxville)

Reserve Readings Indexed List /

Index for Reserve: email me for password if you have lost it.

6) Readings on Punishment and the Death Penalty for week of 11/3- 2008

Austin Sarat, Social Organization of Law, Roxbury Press:  Various Readings

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Week of 9/9

Bush v. Gore (2000)

Crawford v. Indiana Bd of Elections (2008)

South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966)

week of 9/18

McConnell v. FEC (2003)

Randall v. Sorrell (2006)

Wisconsin Right to Life v. FEC (2008)

Week of 9/25

Mock Trial on Privilege - Hudson v. Washington Post

In re subpoena of Judith Miller (2006) -- Privilege

Week of 10/28 - Polcing and Searches

Chap 10.1 and 10.2 from Bonsignore and Katsh "Before the Law"

Dog Sniff allowed during Traffic stop: summary of Illinois v. Caballes (2005) here

contains link to case -- for edited version see text website or sign on to course reserve.

Hiibel v. Nevada (2004)-- ID requirment -- edited version on reserve.

Free legal Research Links:

Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute: http://www.law.cornell.edu/

FindLaw http://www.findlaw.com/

LexisOne http://www.lexisone.com/ (need to register- free)

Rominger Legal http://www.romingerlegal.com/

Supreme Court Cases (including pending cases):

Oyez: briefs and audio: http://www.oyez.org/

SCOTUS: Scotus Wiki (for new cases) and Blog (for commentary)

Links for Edited Supreme Court Decisions:

• Duke Law School List of edited cases here
• Textbook website: http://clca.cqpress.com/rights_topic_browse.htm
• John Scheb (University of Tennessee) http://web.utk.edu/~scheb/scdecisions.html

Documents in the News:

University of Michigan Archive:  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnews.html

Federal Bills in the News: Library of Congress http://thomas.loc.gov/home/textonly.html

Random Interesting Constitutional Law News:

Sunday's Pulpit Initiative will Challenge Restrictions on Non Profits 9/26/2008

New York Suing to Get Heart Surgery for Amish Child (9/20/2008) (free exercise - link to stub and other links -- discussion of amish beliefs here and here)