This isn't the kind of thing I think about a lot, but I wonder what (if any) assumptions are made -- in the question anjd by the hypothesized state institution -- about the category "Sabbatarians." I think the usual definition is "those who obserfve their holy day on Saturday," and if that's right, what does the state do about or assume about those who observe their holy day on Sunday? Or is it that the category really isn't "Sabbatarians" but "those whose religious beliefs require that they abstain from certain activities, a category that encompasses the activities at issue here, on their holy day whenever it occurs"?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Volokh, Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, March 24, 2006 7:57 pm Subject: Sabbatarians and deadlines > Thinking about some of our UCLA Law School assignments, > especially ones that have relatively short deadlines, led me to ask > this: Do public universities in states with accommodation regimes > (under RFRA or under Sherbert/Yoder-based state Free Exercise Clause > rules) have an obligation to extend some deadlines for > Sabbatarians? > > The law review competition, for instance, starts Thursday > afternoon and ends Wednesday afternoon; it's generally believed that > many students really do need all six days to do a good job. Say the > competition was conducted by school (which it isn't, but say it was). > Sabbatarians would have only five days on which they could do the > competition, but others have six; would the school have an > obligation to > give Sabbatarians an extra day? > > What if this were a 72-hour take home exam, given Friday morning > and due Monday morning? > > Eugene > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed > as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages > that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members > can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. >
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