Mentor Assignment

Plese use this posting to discuss your mentor experience.

Paralegal v. Lawyer/Brown v. Hammond

You discover that while the attorney you are working for is representing a celebrity, Whitney Tears, in a controversial child custody case, your employer has been secretly leaking information to a reporter. The information is from an investigation conducted by the Division of Human Services and has very personal information, some of which puts poor Whitney and is embarassing and puts her in a bad light. You confront her about these "leaks" and she replies, "Deal with it."
You really need this job but you think these actions are disloyal, despicable, devious and dishonest and downright dirty. You must take action! Based on Paralegal and Brown, explain what you would do and explain why.
Please post your comment by Sunday.

First Amendment Blog

This posting is for the purpose of developing discussion among us in order to define areas of interest relating to the First Amendment.
I am hoping students will go to First Amendment.org and look at the topics. Explore a few and try and get a sense of 3 that might interest you. There are some very interesting issues (to me, and I hope you).
Just today there were a number of 1st Amendment issues in the paper: Hip-Hop lyrics, protecting reporters from having to disclose their sources (Shield laws....there is no federal shield law, but many states have them).
Here is what I am looking for......post something like this: I am interested in dress codes and the First Amendment. I want to see what the cases are saying about this....sounds like a clash of interests...kids wanting to wear clothes that express themselves and school administrators that are concerned with running the school.
My hope would be you will find someone with similar interests and you can exchange so insights.

Debra v. Larry

With respect to the Complaint we have started looking at between Larry Birkhead and Debra Opti, please start a discussion of disciplinary rules that you think might apply. Be sure to cite the particular rule and explain why you think they might be "in play" with respect to the actions you are reading about.

Determinators/Hamdan v. Rumsfeld/Dissents only (starts at 103)

Please use this blog to discuss the case.........sort out the facts.........what are the issues.........what questions do you have? What do you think they meant when they said........?
We want to use this to bring the whole group along so we can carry on a conversation about the case during Constitution Day.

Accelerators/Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (Justice Stevens opinion only)

Please use this blog to discuss the case.........sort out the facts.........what are the issues.........what questions do you have? What do you think they meant when they said........?
We want to use this to bring the whole group along so we can carry on a conversation about the case during Constitution Day.

Front Row/Hamdi v. Rumsfeld

Please use this blog to discuss the case.........sort out the facts.........what are the issues.........what questions do you have? What do you think they meant when they said........?
We want to use this to bring the whole group along so we can carry on a conversation about the case during Constitution Day.