BR 3-24-14

In Guinea an outbreak of Ebola has been spreading and has already killed 59 people. Symptoms of this disease include: Vomiting, Diarrhea, and Fever. The disease can not be identified and symptoms were observed last month. Medecins Sans Frontieres is reinforcing its medical and logistics teams in Guinea in response to the epidemic.

Notes 3-20-14

• The inferior courts were created to function beneath the Supreme Court to handle most of the cases tried in the federal court.
• 677 judges handle more than 350,000 cases per year- 80% of the federal caseload.
• There are 94 district courts
• FISA stands for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court- meet in secret and are entitled to secret search warrants.
• If you are an alien terrorist it means you are a terrorist from another country.
• District courts hear both criminal and civil cases.
• Civil cases are people suing one another and businesses while criminal cases deal with crime against one another.
• A few of the cases go to higher courts if losing parties appeal the ruling.
• Each district has a court of appeals (12) plus 1 court for the Federal Circuit.
• Normally 3-judge panels.
• A federal trial court- only tries civil cases that arise out of the nation's customs and other trade related laws.

BR 3-20-14

Judicial Activism.

Assignment for 3-19-14

.	Breyer, Stephen Gerald (Nominated by Bill Clinton)

BR 3-19-14

I don't think we should be involved because it isn't our people and we have our own problems to worry about. ALIENS ARE THE EXPLANATION. Just kidding I don't know.

BR 3-18-14

1.) Russia wants to claim Crimea as part of itself.
2.) No, I do not think we should get involved if it isn't a part of the U.S.

BR-3-11-14

1.) I think there should be a wider limit on who can receive the medication and who can't. The limitation they have now is pretty narrow, so no I don't think they should put profit before people because without the people they can not profit.

2.) I think it should be up to the company as a whole to decide and I think the government could have some say in it, but they shouldn't be able to make the final decision.