RE: Hobby Lobby Question

2014-07-07 Thread Scarberry, Mark
: Re: Hobby Lobby Question Mark may well be right, but why would a clearly constitutional single payer system elicit such disobedience (and arguments about complicity) but the funding of deeply immoral wars and complicity with a number of terrible regimes do not? This is meant as a serious

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2014-07-07 Thread Paul Finkelman
, July 7, 2014 5:12 AM Subject: RE: Hobby Lobby Question Sandy,   Many people think millions of innocent babies have been intentionally killed. It is nearly intolerable that a government would allow private persons to do this (putting the child outside the protection of the law

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2014-07-07 Thread mallamud
] ON BEHALF OF Levinson, Sanford V SENT: Sunday, July 06, 2014 7:45 PM TO: Law Religion issues for Law Academics SUBJECT: Re: Hobby Lobby Question Mark may well be right, but why would a clearly constitutional single payer system elicit such disobedience (and arguments about complicity) but the funding

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2014-07-06 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
I suppose that Jon's is the 64 billion dollar question. I think the answer would depend on the degree to which the single payer system was exclusive. If one could still purchase supplemental coverage (for heart transplants, say), then I assume the US could treat abortion as special. But if

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2014-07-06 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
: Hobby Lobby Question I suppose that Jon's is the 64 billion dollar question. I think the answer would depend on the degree to which the single payer system was exclusive. If one could still purchase supplemental coverage (for heart transplants, say), then I assume the US could treat abortion

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2014-07-02 Thread Vance R. Koven
I assume that the use of quotes around constitutional fact is meant to highlight that the phrase is used as an analogy in this situation, which is governed by a statute and not the Constitution. But partly for that reason, I think the danger of a jury's refusal to follow a proper instruction on

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2014-07-02 Thread Marty Lederman
for Law Academics religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu *Sent:* Monday, June 30, 2014 8:03 PM *Subject:* RE: Hobby Lobby Question With regard to Sandy’s comment that there isn’t a chance in hell of getting funding from Congress to cover these methods of contraception: Do we agree that a less

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2014-07-02 Thread Brian Landsberg
: Monday, June 30, 2014 7:20 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Hobby Lobby Question Art raises an interesting point. For better and worse, Brown in 1954 did absolutely nothing, and Brown II settled for the (in)famous “all deliberate speed.” It was the Civil Rights Movement

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2014-07-01 Thread Vance R. Koven
I have (perhaps incorrectly) assumed that when the Court says *it* should not get involved in judging the sincerity of a religious belief, it is expressing the proper division of labor between a court and the finder of fact. It should be up to the jury (or the court wearing a fact-finder hat) to

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2014-07-01 Thread Steven Jamar
No. I do not reject the legitimacy nor the religiousity of the plaintiff’s beliefs. Quite the contrary; I accept them and undertstand them. But I do not accept that we should accept a complicity with evil claim when it becomes too attenuated as it is here. The inquiry is attenuation, not

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2014-07-01 Thread Alan Brownstein
-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Jamar Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 9:32 AM To: Law Religion Law List Subject: Re: Hobby Lobby Question No. I do not reject the legitimacy nor the religiousity of the plaintiff's beliefs. Quite the contrary; I accept them and undertstand them. But I do

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2014-07-01 Thread Scarberry, Mark
Maybe this is a constitutional fact, like NY Times actual malice. We need to be careful that a trier of fact does not conclude that a party isn't sincere just because the trier of fact thinks the belief is so obviously wrong that a reasonable person couldn't believe it. Mark Mark S. Scarberry

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2014-07-01 Thread Daniel J. Greenwood
law, consumer protection, environmental and safety law, human rights law, etc. DG From: Alan Brownstein [mailto:aebrownst...@ucdavis.edu] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 5:08 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Hobby Lobby Question I think the least restrictive means analysis

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2014-07-01 Thread David Cruz
@lists.ucla.edumailto:religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: RE: Hobby Lobby Question 1. Rhetorically, it was probably overdetermined that the Court grant the rights to the corporation and not its “owners”. By claiming that it was protecting the corporation, the Court avoided the curious problem of why the FA

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2014-07-01 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
That is, of course, a deep problem. People can sincerely believe absolutely crazy things. Sandy Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2014, at 12:29 PM, Scarberry, Mark mark.scarbe...@pepperdine.edumailto:mark.scarbe...@pepperdine.edu wrote: Maybe this is a constitutional fact, like NY Times actual

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2014-07-01 Thread Rick Duncan
Subject: RE: Hobby Lobby Question With regard to Sandy’s comment that there isn’t a chance in hell of getting funding from Congress to cover these methods of contraception:   Do we agree that a less restrictive means is available for purposes of RFRA and (where applicable) constitutional analysis

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2014-07-01 Thread Rick Duncan
to reform --Dick Gaughan (from the song, Thomas Muir of Huntershill) From: Arthur Spitzer artspit...@gmail.com To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 1:04 AM Subject: Re: Hobby Lobby Question I appreciate

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2014-07-01 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
I do not understand why the complicity with evil rationale doesn't apply to taxpayers ( like Thoreau). The argument against is either that it would unduly burden the state to set up a c.o. system for tax protesters or that it would invite strategic misrepresentation. Are these sufficiently

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2014-07-01 Thread Volokh, Eugene
? Eugene From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Duncan Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 5:04 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Hobby Lobby Question The Court assumed that there is a compelling interest

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2014-07-01 Thread Alan Brownstein
From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of Volokh, Eugene [vol...@law.ucla.edu] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 8:09 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Hobby Lobby Question The Court also said that there’s

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2014-06-30 Thread Douglas Laycock
From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Friedman Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 4:36 PM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Hobby Lobby Question Hi, Doug. Congrats on the result! I haven't focused enough

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2014-06-30 Thread Richard Friedman
...@lists.ucla.edu] *On Behalf Of *Richard Friedman *Sent:* Monday, June 30, 2014 4:36 PM *To:* Law Religion issues for Law Academics *Subject:* Re: Hobby Lobby Question Hi, Doug. Congrats on the result! I haven't focused enough on it to have any clear sense of the merits, but the outcome does

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2014-06-30 Thread Marty Lederman
*To:* Law Religion issues for Law Academics *Subject:* RE: Hobby Lobby Question The majority opinion gives ammunition to the plaintiffs in the nonprofit cases by reemphasizing that when the plaintiffs determine that a certain complicity violates their beliefs, the courts shouldn't find

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2014-06-30 Thread Alan Brownstein
issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Hobby Lobby Question The entire solution for the non-profits was done by regulation. So I assume that extending it to for-profits could also be done by regulation. Of course there could be some hidden obstacle that I don’t know about. The Court found the win

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2014-06-30 Thread K Chen
*Sent:* Monday, June 30, 2014 12:29 PM *To:* 'Law Religion issues for Law Academics' *Subject:* RE: Hobby Lobby Question The entire solution for the non-profits was done by regulation. So I assume that extending it to for-profits could also be done by regulation. Of course there could

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2014-06-30 Thread Scarberry, Mark
...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Levinson, Sanford V Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 12:28 PM To: 'Law Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Hobby Lobby Question This is a good question. AS I read the opinion it tends to rely on the fact that the insurance providers will be required

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2014-06-30 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
...@lists.ucla.edumailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Levinson, Sanford V Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 12:28 PM To: 'Law Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Hobby Lobby Question This is a good question. AS I read the opinion it tends to rely

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2014-06-30 Thread Arthur Spitzer
. School of Law *From:* religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [ mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] *On Behalf Of *Levinson, Sanford V *Sent:* Monday, June 30, 2014 12:28 PM *To:* 'Law Religion issues for Law Academics' *Subject:* RE: Hobby Lobby

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2014-06-30 Thread Steven Jamar
The court accepts without inquiry the assertion that the complicity with evil theory is the problem that leads to the substantial burden. It merely accepts the claim that the adherents cannot comply because of the complicity theory. It then bootstraps that there would be costs of

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2014-06-30 Thread Arthur Spitzer
*From:* religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] *On Behalf Of *Arthur Spitzer *Sent:* Monday, June 30, 2014 8:51 PM *To:* Law Religion issues for Law Academics *Subject:* Re: Hobby Lobby Question With respect, I think Sandy's response (I think

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2014-06-30 Thread Paul Finkelman
Subject: RE: Hobby Lobby Question Art raises an interesting point.  For better and worse, Brown in 1954 did absolutely nothing, and Brown II settled for the (in)famous “all deliberate speed.”  It was the Civil Rights Movement, Lyndon Johnson, and Congress that fundamentally changed things