1. Details information on.... whether cross burning should be protected and whether it is a public order offense.
2. Detailed information on ...Should prostitution be legal?
3. responses to the following questions:
Henry Hill's financial relationship with Simon and Schuster was the subject of the case described in this case study. From what crimes did Hill intend to profit? How did he intend to profit?
What was the significance of this case for notoriety-for-profit laws? On what basis did the Court find the New York law unconstitutional?
Do you agree with the Court's conclusion that "[h]ad the Son of Sam law been in effect at the time and place of publication, it would have escrowed payment for such works as The Autobiography of Malcolm X%u2026, Civil Disobedience%u2026, and even the Confessions of Saint Augustine%u2026"?
How might new notoriety-for-profit laws be written (or existing ones be revised) so as to make them more acceptable under U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny?
4. responses to the following questions:
Do you believe that California's three-strike's law sometimes unfairly punishes relatively minor crimes? Why or why not?
Why did the Court deny certiorari in this case?
Is it likely that a similar case may be accepted by the Court in the future? If so, on what grounds?
If a similar case is heard by the full Court in the future, what do you predict the outcome will be? Why?