“What's Really Going On?”
Understanding Current, Contentious and Confusing
Important Legal Battles II

Instructor:  Irving Labovitz, J.D.

Course Description:  This course will be fast moving, partially interactive, and  fully focused on selected immediate, highly publicized, and contentious legal issues now before the courts and in the media. The weekly topics will be taken from the highly publicized cases of the moment.  Each will be approached by first establishing the actual known facts of the case, as opposed to the usual hyperbole produced by partisan advocates.  We shall next identify the precise legal issues implicated by these facts.  After this stable platform for discussion has been established, a short audience participation will permit advancement of each disparate point of view, but at all times constrained by the established facts and identified law.  While this course does not assure the correct answer to any timely legal controversy, it, indeed, permits the student to know the actual disclosed facts involved and also understand the precise legal question(s) at issue.  As the term progresses, a retrospective on the actual judicial decision on pending matters earlier discussed will lend value to both the analysis and content.

NOTE:  It is suggested that first-time students attend a pre-class primer in the Maltz Auditorium on the FAU Jupiter Campus at 9:15 a.m. on March 25 on the structure of the federal and state appellate court process.

Biographical Information:  Attorney Irving Labovitz is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a degree in Business Administration, and holds a Juris Doctor Degree from Boston University School of Law.  His experience includes having been a military Federal prosecutor, an adjunct professor of business law at Western New England Law School and Florida Atlantic University, and outside counsel for the F.D.I.C. in the liquidation of failed banks.  He has authored many scholarly law review articles and has been a national lecturer for the American Bar Association and Commercial Law League of America.  He is presently general counsel for a large corporation.