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Monday, May 27, 2024 - Friday, May 31, 2024

Credits: 12.5-15 Credits

Attendees are responsible for their own travel, transportation, meals, and accommodations.

Offered in connection with the Alexander Blewett School of Law’s summer program and the Baucus Institute at the University of Montana, the Celtic CLE affords State Bar of Montana members the opportunity to learn alongside law students in a week-long program.

Monday, 27 May (CLE): 9:00-11:45 – Search and Seizure and Exclusionary Rule (King-Reis & O’Sullivan/Ó Conaill)

• U.S. Reading – Excerpts from:
  • Weeks v. US, 232 U.S. 383 (1914)
  • Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961)
  • Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471 (1963)

Tuesday, 28 May (CLE): 9:00- 11:45 - Search and Seizure and Exclusionary Rule cont’d (King-Reis & O’Sullivan/Ó Conaill)

• U.S. Reading – Excerpts from:
  • Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431 (1984)
  • US v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984)
  • Hudson v. Michigan, 547 U.S. 586 (2006)
  • Herring v. US, 555 U.S. 135 (2009)
  • Utah v. Strieff, 136 S. Ct. 2056 (2016)

Wednesday, 29 May (CLE): 9:00-11:45 – Executive Immunity (Conley & O’Sullivan/Ó Conaill)

• U.S. Reading – Excerpts from:
  • Nixon v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 731 (1982)
  • Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982)
  • U.S. v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974)
  • Trump v. Vance, 140 S.Ct. 2412 (2020)

Thursday, 30 May (CLE): 9:00-11:45 – Executive Immunity cont’d (Conley & O’Sullivan/Ó Conaill)

• U.S. Reading –Excerpts from selected briefs and opinions regarding criminal prosecution of Donald Trump

Friday, 31 May (CLE): 9:00 – 11:45 – Policy rationales regarding executive immunity (Conley, O’Sullivan/Ó Conaill)

• U.S. Reading –TBD