The reading assignments for next week's classes remain those set out in the assignment schedule. We will cover preemption on Monday and begin the material on the dormant Commerce Clause Wednesday. There is one modification: there will be no Problem 9. (I could manage to devise a preemption problem that justified the time it would take to cover in class.)
Also, as I mentioned in class last night, the lawyer for the Petitioner in Van de Kamp v. Goldstein, No. 07-854, will be mooting his Supreme Court argument at noon on Wednesday in our Moot Court Room. The question presented is whether supervising prosecutors are absolutely immune from civil rights claims based on their failure to implement an information management system tracking the information on government informants. All of the official documents in the case can be found here. (As a result of my participatin in the argument as a judge, I will not be available for my regularly scheduled office hours from noon to 1:30 next Wednesday.)