DUE: Tuesday, October 8 (at class time)

POINTS: up to 12 points

PENALTY for late papers: 4 points automatic deduction

No papers accepted after Tuesday, October 15 (class time)

Choose ONE (and only one) of the following questions as the subject of your essay paper (Question IA or IB or IIA or IIB, etc.). Your paper should be 5-7 pages (typed, double-spaced) or 1000-1500 words. You also may submit this as an attachment to an e-mail message.

Question I. Discuss the decision, Skyywalker Records v. Navarro, 739 F.Supp. 578 (1990) from the perspective of one of the following writers studied in class:

I.A. Catharine MacKinnon

I.B. Theodore A. Gracyk

Question II. Discuss the decision, Harris v. Forklift Sys., 510 U.S. 17 (1993) from the perspective of one of the following writers studied in class:

II.A. J.S. Mill

II.B. Catharine MacKinnon

II.C. Joel Feinberg

Question III. Discuss the decision, Barnes v. Glenn Theatre, Inc., 498 U.S. 807 (1991) from the perspective of one of the following writers studied in class:

III.A. J.S. Mill

III.B. Catharine MacKinnon

III.C. Joel Feinberg

III.D. Theodore A. Gracyk

For whichever writer you choose, please do not do any additional research. Nor should you do any additional research on the court decision you select. Use the material we read for class, along with our class discussion of the articles. You should put yourself "in the shoes" of the writer you choose and assess the court decision you select. Consider the content, reasoning, and conclusions of the judge(s). Also consider the methodology(ies) used by the judge(s) in the decision.

SOURCES:

Skyywalker is at the reserve desk at the University library.

Harris and Barnes are U.S. Supreme Court cases on-line at the Legal Information Institute World Wide Web site. You can find the LII by going to our class Web page, click to "on-line resources," then find Legal Information Institute under "Legal" resources, and click to the LII. From there, click to U.S. Supreme Court Cases. You will find an index by year and from there by name of the parties. This will take you to the full-text of the decisions.

I suggest you save the full text to a floppy disk so you will have it to work with later. To "save," go to the "file" menu in the upper-left of your browser. Pull down the menu and select "save" or "save as." It will ask you where you want to save the file. Tell it to save to your A:\ (floppy) drive. It's easier to save the ASCI files, which are basic text, than to save the Wordperfect files, which are "zipped."