Syllabus - Remedies - Fall 2023


 

Remedies: Fall 2023 – Outline  

9/18/2023

Prof. George conk 

gconk@fordham.edu  Room 8-108

 Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00 – 3:25

Classroom #201-A

Casebook: Weaver, et al Remedies, 5th Edition

Article III, Constitution of the United States

Section 2

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more States;—between a State and Citizens of another State;—between Citizens of different States;—between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

 

Week 1 – How Should Judges decide: Precedent, Equity, and the Common law; the Common Good and the public interest.

Justice vs. Positive Law

SLIDES - CLASS # 1 From the Magna Carta to Emancipation

James Somerset’s case (1772) - Excerpt - Speech of Lord Mansfield

Full text

Fugitive Slave Clause (1787) Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3

Fugitive Slave Act 1793

The 272 - the Jesuit Georgetown slave sale (book review)

Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) [highlighted]

Amendment XIII - 1865

Slides 1863-1963 

Slides - Slavery and the Catholic Church

Can the classical legal tradition overcome its long acquiescence in and embrace of slavery?  

See Fr. Christopher J. Kellerman, S.J. - It's time to correct the historical record about slavery and the Catholic Church

Common Good Constitutionalism Review of Adrian Vermeule's book - GWC

Helmholz review of Vermeule’s Common Good Constitutionalism, comments by GWC

 

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 Gun control after NY State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen.

Can states find a route to gun control after NY State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen?

SLIDES - A Well regulated militia?

New Jersey Statute in response to Bruen majority: [NJ A4769 /2022-2023]

Commentary re Koons v. Reynolds (Civ. No. 22-7464, District of New Jersey):

GWC: District Judge Bumb enjoins bulk of New Jersey Post-Bruen Gun Control Statute


Guided by History: Protecting the Public Sphere Under Bruen – Joseph Blocher and Reva Siegel (NYU L Rev 2023)



Weeks 2 and 3 The Administrative State Under Siege? [3 classes]

W.E.B DuBois – The Freedmen’s Bureau – The Atlantic, March 1901

 

Judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act

[N.B.: 5 USC 702-706, 802]

Congressional Research Service - The Major Questions Doctrine (November 2022) 

Vermeule & Sunstein: The Structure of the Modern State is Under Attack

Review: Sunstein and Vermeule - Law & Leviathan

 The Major Questions Quartet – Mila Sohoni, 136 Harvard L. Rev. 262

The " Quartet" is these cases:

[ Alabama Association of Realtors v.DHHS,  NFIB v. Department of Labor, Biden v. Missouri,  West Virginia v.Environmental Protection Agency]

Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400  (2019)[Gorsuch concurring]


Sunstein- Two Justifications for the Major Questions Doctrine

Neil Gorsuch concurring in WVA v. EPA

Amy Coney Barrett: Concurring in Biden v. Nebraska

Vermeule: West Virginia v. EPA is a specious attack on the Clean Air Act (WaPo)

Adrian Vermeule – critique of Amy Coney Barrett on the `Major Questions Doctrine’ concurring in Biden v. Nebraska – Yale Journal on Regulation

Jennifer Mascott – The Procedural Morality of the Administrative State – Toward the Common Good?

The student Loan Case

 DOJ – Office of Legal Counsel – Opinion on HEROES ACT as authority for loan forgiveness

 Jed Shugerman - My amicus brief in the student loan cases - an Emergency Questions Doctrine

Resources:

City of Arlington v. FCC, 569 US 290 (2013)

Vol IV – `Major Questions Doctrine’- Beau J. Baumann, Yale Journal on Regulation, Notice Comment Blog [collecting articles on the "major questions doctrine"]

New Right Thinkers Argue for Biblical Lawmaking – Vermeule Responds


Week 4  Thursday September 14

After the death of Roe v. Wade - Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health. What next? State and federal responses to Dobbs. 

Can Women be prosecuted for obtaining an abortion? - read blogpost 

Does the Comstock Act bar manufacturer of mifepristone from mailing the drug? - read blogpost

Does FDA permission to prescribe a drug override state laws banning abortion?

FDA Mifepristone Label - January 2023

Complaint - GenBioPro v. West Virginia

ORDER granting WVA motion to dismiss

Background

Impact of Dobbs - Guttmacher Institute

The new abortion battleground - David S. Cohen et al, Columbia Law Review (2023)


 Week Five  Introduction to Equity -  Chapter 2

Lecture SLIDES - Equity and Equitable Remedies
Read: case book pages 16-36

Weighing and balancing:
How should a judge craft relief? 

Read Abstract: Functional Federal Equity - by Riley  T. Keenan.


Read: Blogpost by Joyce Vance remembering the 16th Avenue Baptist Church bombing: Civil Discourse


Thursday  September 28 Equitable defenses
SLIDES - Equitable Defenses
Read: pages 37-63; 71-81 (Hypo - Estoppel and Immigration)

Tuesday, October 3
Trial by Jury
Read: Trial by Jury: 81-100
Jarkesy v. SEC - Supreme Court Docket # 22-859

Blogpost: Jarkesy v. SEC - GWC
Petition for Certiorari - Solicitor General
Cert granted 6/30/2023

 QUESTION PRESENTED: 1. Whether statutory provisions that empower the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceedings seeking civil penalties violate the Seventh Amendment. 2. Whether statutory provisions that authorize the SEC to choose to enforce the securities laws through an agency adjudication instead of filing a district court action violate the nondelegation doctrine. 3. Whether Congress violated Article II by granting for-cause removal protection to administrative law judges in agencies whose heads enjoy for-cause removal protection.



 
Deep Background
John Fabian Witt - The King and the Dean
The Civil Rights Injunction - Owen M. Fiss (1978)
Article III Equity - Owen W. Gallogly

Thursday, October 5
Start: Ch. 5 Restitution and Unjust Enrichment
Restitution and Unjust Enrichment Ch. 5 
 General principles, defenses, measuring the enrichment 

Thursday, October 12

Thursday, 12:30- 1:45 Webinar: part II:  All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church by Christopher J. Kellerman, S.J. (Orbis Books, 2022).  Moderator: George W. Conk

Panel:  

Introduction: Tania Tetlow, President, Fordham University

Discussants: Fr. Kellerman

Vincent Rougeau [President, Holy Cross College; past President Association of American Law Schools]

Maureen O’Connell [LaSalle University Theology Department and author of Undoing the Knots -  Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness]

Prof. Aysha Ames, Director, Legal Writing, Fordham Law School

 

2:00 – 3:50  in class discussion

In plurimis – Letter to Bishops of Brazil, Leo XIII, 1888 re abolition of slavery

 

Kellerman: Slavery and the Catholic Church: It’s time to correct the historical record | America Magazine

Joseph Biden - Remarks at the Commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

The California Reparations Report - 2023 Executive Summary  

Week 9

Enforcement of Equitable Remedies: Civil and criminal contempt of court; jury trial, procedural requirements, collateral challenges to injunctions 

TUESDAY -
Read: casebook 103-116;  129-137; 140-141

Contempt, Sanctions, Enforcement -  
SLIDES - Introduction to contempt

Civil v. Criminal Contempt

U.S. v. Professional Air Traffic Controllers, p. 111

n  How do civil and criminal fines differ? What are the consequences of the fine being characterized as criminal rather than civil?

 Yates v. U.S., p. 114

 Deep background

Executive Branch Contempt - Chafetz, 76 U Chi L Rev 1083 (2009)

 Congressional Research Service, Trump v. Mazars Implications for Congressional Oversight (2020)

THURSDAY  Ch. 3 The duty to obey: collateral challenges
SLIDES - The Duty to Obey and the Collateral Bar Rule

The Chutkan `gag order' vs. Trump

@legalnerd on the Trump gag order and the collateral bar rule

Now the HUGE question: Will Trump comply with the gag order while appeal is pending? If he doesn't, under the collateral bar rule, he loses right to challenge the gag order, any criminal contempt finding and punishment.

 Read casebook: pages 162-187

 

You may read the excerpts in the casebook or the full texts:

U.S. v. United Mine Workers, 330 U.S. 358 (1947)

Walker v. Birmingham, 388 U.S. 307 (1967)

 

U.S.v. UMWA, p. 163

n  How does the majority reach the conclusion that the Norris LaGuardia Act does not apply?

n  Should the District Court have stayed its order pending resolution of a “substantial” challenge to its jurisdiction?

n  What justifies the injunction and contempt order despite “substantial doubt” about its jurisdiction?

 See discussion questions at slide **

A criminal defendant can assert the unconstitutionality of the law under which he/she is charged.
But one charged with criminal contempt cannot raise that defense in a criminal contempt proceeding.  He/she must obey the order, challenge the constitutionality of the the injunction in the court which issued the order - and appeal that denial.

Does the collateral bar rule protect people from abusive use of injunctions? 
Is it needed to preserve order?
Were Martin Luther King, and Rev. Wyatt T. Walker justly jailed for contempt of the Alabama court's injunction?  If not - why not?


Background/ Context:

NPR 50 years after Letter from a Birmingham Jail 

John L. Lewis - testimony before Congress on the Centralia mine disaster during the time of government seizure of the mines.

Nina Simone - Mississippi goddamn

 Alabama 1963 - TV news report

 Watch M.L. King, Jr. on Meet the Press (1965) discussing civil disobedience 

Weeks 10 & 11 Structural injunctions, Public School Integration–rise and fall; From Brown v. Topeka (1954) through Charlotte (1972), Detroit(1974), and Seattle 


Tuesday - October 31
SLIDES - The Founding to the Second Founding to American Apartheid

Thursday, November 2
*Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas - Brown II 349 U.S. 294 (1955)

SLIDES Introduction Integration, part 1
A decade after Brown = a stone wall
 SLIDES U.S. v. Jefferson County
Griffin Bell - DISSENT in Jefferson County

 1961 - Executive Order 10925 - Affirmative action - John F. Kennedy
January 23, 1964 

July 2, 1964
SLIDES Brown v. Board Part 2


Carried over to Tuesday, November 7:
Metropolitan area remedial busing and other uses and limits of the remedial power.
 Busing  - Charlotte, North Carolina
SLIDES 
Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg  -  read case syllabus
 

Tuesday, November 7

 Detroit,  - Desegregation stops at the city limits WHY???

Read Syllabus and Dissents of Douglas, White, and Marshall
SLIDES - Detroit and Kansas City

 
Resources
NOTE: Busing - Supreme Court Restricts Equity Powers of District Courts - Elizabeth Warren - Rutgers Law Review - 1975
 
White Parents Express Outrage St. Louis Public Radio 
-Francis Howell Schools - St. Louis County, Missouri  - Read article AND Listen to the two audio excerpts linked in the article - the first by a white parent, the second by a Black woman graduate of integrated schools.
The Federal role in housing segregation: Economic Policy Institute amicus brief in Texas Department of Housing v. Inclusive Communities Project
Housing Apartheid, American Style

Thursday, November  9
The end of Brown??

SLIDES - Parents involved v. Seattle
SLIDES Resegregation - What did Brown accomplish?
An alternative: "robust and realistic rational basis review"?:
9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski concurring opinion in Parents Involved v. Seattle 
Segregation in suburbia: Levittown's Legacy
The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein

Housing Apartheid, American Style

RESOURCES
Book Review: Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie (winner of the Pulitzer Prize - 2023)

Schuster Institute - Brandeis University

Aretha Franklin - Respect

Week 12 Damage remedies
Tuesday, November 14
Read:
Restatement Torts, 3rd - REMEDIES - Tentative Draft #2, 2023 Appendix "Black Letter Rules"
NJ Model Civil Jury Charges (Damages - Chapters 6,7,8)
NY Pattern Jury Instructions (Damages - selected)

SLIDES - PROOF OF FACTS
SLIDES  - keyed to casebook
Thursday , November 16
SLIDES - Damages - Part 2
General damage principles - the basic measure of damages- make whole; fair market value; contract price; Property Damage applying market measures, losses beyond the value of the thing lost - consequential damages
Scope of liability/proximate cause - Restatement 3rd, NJ, NY


 

Week 13  Tuesday, November 21 and Tuesday, November 28

Mass tort remedies–MDLs–Personal injuries and product liability claims 
Lecture: Occupational disease and third-party asbestos product liability claims
Johnson & Johnson hip implant cases-the structured settlement grid

The DePuy (J&J) ASR Hip Settlement - Brown/Greer Administrators

Deep background
 Hellerstein, Henderson Twerski, Managerial Judging - the 9/11 Responders Tort Litigation  Cornell L. Rev. (2012)
Deadly Dust...George W. Conk, Rutgers Law Review (2017)
Deadly Dust - first draft



Tuesday, November 28
Restatement 3rd - Torts Economic loss -
Chapter 1 - Unintentional infliction of economic loss

 Environmental Disaster Class Actions for economic loss–the BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

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