Why you should attend
Constitutional scholars, a law school dean, Supreme Court advocates, authors, and journalists will analyze and discuss the leading Supreme Court decisions of the October 2010 Term. The faculty, representing a variety of perspectives and views, will analyze the Supreme Court's decisions for their precedential, doctrinal, and, where appropriate, litigation significance.

What you will learn
The Supreme Court's October 2010 plenary docket includes numerous highly significant cases involving conflicts between individual and governmental interests, and between federal and state governmental power. Federalism, a dominant issue during the Rehnquist Court, is set to play its first major role in the Roberts Court. The Court's docket involves a wide range of important issues concerning individual rights, including freedom of speech, the Establishment Clause, civil rights litigation, Fourth Amendment searches, the Confrontation Clause, and police interrogations. And the court is expected to decide important class action issues.

Some of the specific issues expected to be decided by the Court this term include:
• First Amendment right to protest at soldier's funeral
• Establishment Clause challenge to tax credit program
• Admissibility of laboratory reports and crime victim statements under Confrontation Clause
• Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule
• Section 1983 litigation- municipal liability, prosecutorial immunity
• Federal preemption of state law claims
• Gender discrimination

Cost: $995*

PLEASE NOTE:

*Full scholarships to PLI's live seminars and webcasts are available to judges, judicial law clerks, law professors, law students, attorneys 65 or older, law librarians, attorneys who work for nonprofit organizations, legal services organizations or government agencies, and unemployed attorneys. Attorneys in private practice who seek to learn skills that will assist them in pro bono activities are encouraged to apply.

Please contact Leonard McKenzie at 212-824-5826 for additional information.