COURT TOUR information!

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Hello Students!

I’m REALLY looking forward to our walking tour of Manhattan courts tomorrow!  (Thursday, Sept. 30)  Let’s meet 10:15am at the Triumph of the Human Spirit monument, across the street from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 40 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013.  Here is a link to it on Google Maps.  Nearest subways are 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall, J/Z to Chambers St., and N/R/W to City Hall.

PLEASE bring proof of vaccination like your card, or a photo of it, or the “Excelsior Pass” app (if you have it), etc.  It’s *possible* we’ll be able to enter the federal courthouse and if so, we may be required to show proof of vaccination!  We’d also need to have our bags scanned so please leave any sharp objects at home.

If you have any problems or questions tomorrow (Thurs.) please call me at 917.363.0063 – please don’t text or email because I may not see it promptly.

I look forward to touring with you!!

Cheers,

Prof. C.

“Law in Culture” Review

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I am choosing to do my review on Season 2 of the podcast In the Dark. The investigative podcast, released throughout 2018, is hosted by Madeleine Baran and produced by APM Reports. I chose this podcast because I listened to the first season a few months ago and have been meaning to give the second season a go! The second season is about the case of Curtis Flowers, a man who “was tried six times for the same crime” (from the podcast description). The case ended up being a 21+ year process of appeals and new trials revolving around a 1996 shooting in a furniture store that resulted in multiple deaths. The whole time, Flowers was in jail on death row. It is law-themed because not only does it involve a murder case (against the law obviously), but it goes into detail about the trials and the multiple appeals. The podcast is 18 episodes and I hope to get through most of it before the end of the semester!

My source

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Is a show called “Better Call Saul” it’s a Netflix show that I’ve been watching for the past two weeks, I’m on the second season. The show is based on a lawyer that constantly breaks the law in order to benefit himself and in order to attain and win cases. It’s so funny and full of drama I think it’s a good source because the main character is a lawyer.

Law in Culture Source

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The Source that I pick is a TV show called Scandal. It is Law related because it is about a group of paralegals trying to help the main Lawyer which is named Olivia Pope. According to IMDB, “A former White House Communications Director starts her own crisis management firm only to realize her clients are not the only ones with secrets.”

Get the new Cleared4 app!

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Dear Students!

If you still have not received an email with your link for Cleared4, the new app to enter campus buildings, please send an email with your name, EMPLID and a message that you did not receive the link to: studentwellness@citytech.cuny.edu.

Please do this ASAP!!  The availability of Everbridge VAXPass has only been extended until 5 PM on Friday, October 1, 2021. 

See you in class!

Prof. C.

 

Meeting location for Thursday’s trip!

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Dear Students,

I hope you are excited for our walking tour of the courts in Manhattan this Thursday, Sept. 30!  You have your choice of meeting places and times–EITHER:

  • 10am SHARP at City Tech, entrance to New Academic Building OR
  • 10:30am in Manhattan at the “Triumph of the Human Spirit” monument across the street from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals!  Location and info are here.

Bring your MetroCard!  Wear comfortable shoes!

I also look forward to seeing you 10am tomorrow in class!  (Tues. Sept. 28)  Please be sure to read M&M ch. 6 pp. 145-157 (on BB) and “About Federal Courts: Court Role & Structure” in prep for our discussion of the Federal Court System.

Have a lovely evening!

Prof. C.

SAMPLE post: “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy!

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Hello,

The cultural source I will use for my “Law in Culture Review” assignment is a book called “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy.  (Actually it’s two books: it’s REALLY long. with more than 1200 pages, so it’s broken into two volumes!)  It was published in 1869.  According to Wikipedia, it “chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.”  It is law-themed because it tells the story of a war, and wars usually occur because one nation believes another nation has broken the law, and there are many laws relating to wars, like how they can be declared and how they are conducted.  I don’t think I can read all 1200 pages this semester, but I’ll definitely read at least 150 pages as required by this assignment, hopefully more.  Wish me luck!

Prof. C.

Urgent message from CUNY about vaccination

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Dear Students:

PLEASE read the following urgent message about vaccination from CUNY Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Daniel Lemons.

You have received multiple communications via a variety of media about CUNY’s Fall Term Vaccination Policy. The vaccination mandate was announced on May 10 by the governor and the chancellor and on July 6 the CUNY Board of Trustees approved the policy governing the mandate. The mandate applies to all students taking in-person and hybrid courses.

A number of students have reported being told, for a variety of reasons, that even though they are in a hybrid course, they do not need to be vaccinated. Among those reasons is that the faculty member has made the previously in-person or hybrid course, online. This is incorrect.

Individual faculty members may not decide on their own to change the modality of the course they are teaching. No CUNY courses have been allowed to change what was published in CUNYfirst when students registered. There have been temporary suspensions of in-person meetings due to insufficient space for social distancing of unvaccinated students, but no permanent changes. Students registered for in-person or hybrid courses as so listed in CUNYfirst must be vaccinated and upload proof of vaccination by Monday, September 27. All students registered for these courses must follow the vaccination policy, as has been communicated since May 10 when the vaccine mandate was announced.

 
Feel free to contact me (Coughlin) with any questions.

New app to get on campus!

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Hello Students!

THANK YOU for a terrific trip today!  I hope you enjoyed it, and that you learned from it.

As we discussed and you may have seen in emails, etc. starting Monday, Sept. 27, CUNY will no longer use the Everbridge VaxPass to get on campus.  You’ll now be required to show a CLEARED4  “blue pass”!  You can find some information here: https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/comingtocampus/  If I get additional information, I’ll definitely pass it along.

If you didn’t yet, PLEASE complete LAW 1101 quiz #1 on Blackboard before 11:59pm today!

THANK YOU again, have a great weekend, I look forward to seeing you in class Tuesday!

Cheers,

Prof. C.