LEGISLATION -- JUDGE PLAGER

Spring semester 2000

Assignments are for W. D. Popkin, Materials on Legislation – Political Language and the Political Process, 2d Ed. 1997 (Foundation Press), with 1998 Supplement.

Session Pages

1. Read: 1-8; 179-198 Intro. & Ch. 5 - The Text

Skim Part I, Ch. 2, 3 and 4

Terran v. Secretary, 195 F.3d 1302 (Fed.Cir. 1999

2. Prepare: 199-250 Ch. 6 - External Context - Purpose

3. Prepare: 250-274 (cont.); Ch. 7 - Background Considerations

4. Prepare: 274-320 (cont.)

5. Prepare: 320-359 (cont.); Ch. 8 - Legislative Compromise

6. Prepare: 360-403 Ch. 9 - Change

7. Prepare: 404-444 Ch. 10 - Contemporaneous Legislative History

8. Prepare: 444-487 (cont.)

9. Prepare: 488-516 Ch. 11 - Administrative Interpretation

10. Prepare: 517-554 Ch. 12 - Legislative Action

11. Prepare: 555-607 Ch. 13 - Extending Statutes

12. Prepare: 642-672 Ch. 15 - Statutory Patterns

13. Prepare: 672-700 (cont.)

14. Catch-up and wrap-up