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From Monroe to Connick: Video
In my post of December 6, 2011, I provided an audio link to my November 3 presentation at Loyola Law School (New Orleans), as part of a program entitled “Prosecutorial Immunity: Deconstructing Connick v. Thompson.”
My 40 minute presentation is entitled: “The Long and Winding Road From Monroe to Connick.”
In it, I discuss the leading section 1983 local government liability cases, beginning with Monroe v. Pape in 1961 and culminating with Connick v. Thompson (about which I blogged several times) in 2011. I also address the impact of federalism concerns on local government liability for failure to train.
Below is a video link to this same presentation.
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Supreme Court Review: 2009 Term (video)
Scotus Review: The 2009 Term
On October 29, 2010, my colleague, Professor Christopher Schmidt, and I presented a review of the Supreme Court‘s important decisions from its 2009 Term (through June, 2010).
Our presentations took place at Chicago-Kent and were sponsored by the Kent chapters of the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society. Kent’s Institute for Law and the Humanities, of which I am a co-director, also sponsored.
The two presentations, 30 minutes each, were followed by 15 minutes of questions and discussion.
Cases Covered
Professor Schmidt spoke first about U.S. v. Comstock (Necessary and Proper Clause); McDonald v. City of Chicago (Second Amendment and incorporation); and Citizens United v. FEC (corporate campaign expenditures and the First Amendment).
I spoke next about the following First Amendment free speech and religion cases: Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (speech and material support for terrorists); U.S. v. Stevens (animal cruelty videos, the subject of my more extensive video presentation at the Chicago Bar Association, as noted in a previous post); Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (college religious student group recognition and forum analysis); and Salazar v. Buono (cross as war memorial and its sale by government).
These presentations are accessible through the following link:
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Animal Cruelty, Crush Videos and U.S. v. Stevens (Video)
I spoke about animal cruelty, crush videos and the Supreme Court‘s First Amendment decision in U.S. v. Stevens, 130 S. Ct. 1577 (2010), on October 21, 2010, at the Chicago Bar Association. I was asked to do so by the CBA’s Animal Law Committee.
My videotaped presentation, which I am pleased to make available to readers of this blog, lasts about forty minutes. It is followed by twenty minutes of discussion, also videotaped.
The first part of my presentation deals with the Free Exercise Clause, the second part with obscenity and child pornography under the Free Speech Clause, the third part with the Stevens decision itself and the last part with crush video legislation pending in Congress.
I hope you find it both interesting and informative.
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The “Ground Zero Mosque”: A Discussion (Video)
On September 28, 2010, Professor Steven Heyman, Attorney Mazen Asbahi and I participated in a panel discussion at Chicago-Kent College of Law on the “Ground Zero Mosque”–the proposed Islamic cultural center–in Manhattan.
I spoke about the Religion Clauses and federal statutory law, Professor Heyman addressed the nature of the political discourse and Mr. Asbahi discussed the topic from an American Muslim perspective. All of this was followed by a spirited discussion among the panelists and with the audience.
The program is an hour long. It was sponsored by Kent’s Society of Law Students for Secularism (which organized the event) and co-sponsored by the Muslim Law Students Association, the National Lawyers Guild and the Institute for Law and Humanities.
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Section 1983 Supreme Court Decisions–2009: A Video Presentation
Introduction
In December, 2009, I spoke to the New Mexico Defense Lawyers Association about the very important Supreme Court section 1983 decisions handed down in 2009. This presentation was videotaped professionally and I am posting it here. Each of these decisions was previously the subject of separate written posts.
Cases Included
1. Haywood v. Drown, 129 S. Ct. 2108 (2009)(state court jurisdiction over section 1983 claims)
2. Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee, 129 S. Ct. 788 (2009)(Title IX and preemption of section 1983 equal protection claims)
3. Pearson v. Callahan, 129 S. Ct. 808 (2009)(qualified immunity “order of battle” revisited)
4. Van De Kamp v. Goldstein, 129 S. Ct. 855 (2009)(absolute immunity of supervisory prosecutors)
5. Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S. Ct. 1937 (2009)(pleading and supervisory liability)
My presentation also includes discussion of another prosecutorial immunity case, Pottawattamie County v. McGhee, 547 F.3d 922 (8th Cir. 2008), cert. granted, 129 S. Ct. 2002 (2009), dismissed, 129 S. Ct. — (2010), as well as of supervisory liability after Iqbal.
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Supreme Court Decisions, 2007-2008: A Video Presentation
Introduction
In February 2009, I spoke at Chicago-Kent to our law students and others about important decisions handed down in the Supreme Court’s 2007 Term (October 2007–June 2008), and also addressed several pending, and since decided, cases in the 2008 Term which ended in June 2009.
As an experiment, I’m putting the video of this presentation on my blog in the hope that some of you might find it of interest. Please let me know through your comments or via email (snahmod@kentlaw.edu) what you think.
The video link appears below (the video is slightly choppy but it still works just fine and the audio is good).
Coverage of Presentation
The presentation includes the following:
United States v. Williams, 128 S. Ct. 1830 (2008)(child pornography)
District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S. Ct. 2783 (2008)(Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to bear arms for the purpose of self-defense in the home)
Engquist v. Oregon Dept. of Agriculture, 128 S. Ct. 2146 (2008)(public employment and class-of-one Equal Protection claims)
Crawford v. Marion County Election Bd., 128 S. Ct. 1610 (2008)(requiring voters to show government-issued photo)
Medellin v. Texas, 128 S. Ct. 1346 (2008)(state criminal procedure, treaties and consular notification)
Boumediene v. Bush, 128 S. Ct. 2229 (2008)(habeas corpus and the war against terrorism)
Pleasant Grove v. Summum (description and assessment of difficult government speech, public forum and Establishment Clause issues before decision handed down subsequently at 129 S. Ct. 1125 (2009))
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