Professor Levinson
I'm somewhat confused by your statement that even if the article is off
by 50% with regard to the actual number of young women who are raped or
otherwise abused by their fathers and, especially, brothers, it
nevertheless states a powerful claim.
Any abuse of the sort
I don't want to answer Sandy, but my sense of the constitutional issue is
this: Yoder was in part a result of C.J. Burger's assertions that the Amish
were a quaint, quite, productive historical artifact that had survived into
the 20th century and they needed to be left alone so they could
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Avi Shick raises the following questions:
I'm somewhat confused by your statement that even if the article is off
by 50% with regard to the actual number of young women who are raped or
I thought about the possibility that the numbers were over/under reported as I listened to reports this last week on the death toll from the tsunamis following the Christmas evening earthquake. Sometime around Monday, I started to hear stories that as many as 1/3 of those killed were children. A
Professor Levinson
Thank you for your clarifications.I still don't see the
constitutional dimension that is so clearly visible to you and Professor
Finkelman. I guess one way to get at the question is whether you think
that the result in Yoder should have been different because of the
Again, I speak for me, not Sandy. I think that the Court did not find Kiryas
Joel very attractive litigants and their request -- for state funds for their
own school district -- seemed such an obvious violation of the establishment
clause, while the Amish were just asking to be exempt from the
I doubt Yoder comes out the same today -- even with this Court. The advent of home schooling to state-set standards changes things substantially, I think. We now generally accept that the state may set certain standards for education up to a certain age -- though we do allow drop-outs -- and
Title: RE: The Amish
Avi Shick
writes:
I guess one way to get at the question is
whether you think that the result in Yoder should have been different because of
theconduct described in the Legal Affairs article?
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I have always found the
