Course Description
Recent Developments in
US Supreme Court Cases
Monday, December 14, 2009 - Friday, December 18, 2009
Cruise through 12.00
hours of your continuing legal education requirements aboard the luxury Carnival cruise ship Imagination.
The course will
cover recent US Supreme Court decisions on the following topics:
l Recovery by Prevailing Party
l Preliminary Injunctions
l Sovereign
Immunity
l Tribal Court Jurisdiction
l Voting
l Deportation
l Desegregation
l Employment Discrimination
l Appointment of Counsel for Indigents
l Retaliatory
Employment Discharge
l Ballot Access
l Voting Rights Act of 1965
l Confrontation
l Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Death Penalty
l Evidence
l Federal
Armed Career Criminals Act
l Habeas Corpus
l Jury Instructions
l Prosecutorial Immunity
l Retroactivity
l Right to Counsel
l Right
to Trial by Jury
l Search and Seizure
l What is a Violent Felony
l Arbitration
l Bankruptcy
l Employee Retirement Income Security Act
l Federal
Antidumping Statutes
l Federal Regulation of Securities
l Governmental Liability
l Patentability of Computer Processes
l Punitive Damages
Liability
l State Regulation of Business
l State Tax
l Utility Companies
l ERISA v QDRO: No Beneficiary Change Before Death
l Internal
Revenue Service
l Narcotics
l Sentencing Guidelines
l Federal Taxation
l State Jurisdiction
l State Regulation
l Political Parties
l Obscenity,
Federal
l Union Dues Required of Nonmember
l Campaign Spending
l Standing to Sue, Legal Injury
l Collateral Estoppel
l Jurisdiction of
Federal Courts of Appeals
l Untimely Filing
l Boundary Dispute Between States
l Remedial Exception to Section 1983
Additional topics
include:
l Understanding the US Supreme Court
l Rules for Practicing Before the US Supreme Court
l Ethics and Professionalism