This follows on yesterday's
11-4 vote by the Ohio Board of Education to remove from its science standards
and related model lesson planlanguageencouraging teachers to
critically analyze evolutionary theory. More on my blog
well that makes it significant; there is more to the Court than just
narrow legal results. ANything that get that much publicity is
significant, even if it is not legally a change.
Malla Pollack wrote:
Why Kelo? I know it produced a storm of protest, but the majority was
just following
Thanks Yvette, and everyone else. I have been flooded off list and on;
will try to provide a summary in a few days or a week
Barksdale, Yvette wrote:
Hi Paul
I would add Raich to that list - because it was the first case that
significantly narrowed the potential scope of Morrison and Lopez
I have a student who is doing a moot court project on whether state courtscan settle a dispute over the meaning of an Islamicmarriage contract.The parties are resident aliens and the question is whetherthe courts can interpret the relevant provisions of the religious marriage contract without
Avitzur v. Avitzur, 58 NY2d 108.I have a
vague recollection of a Moslem marriage cases from somewhere but no longer remember
the details. Ontario
just this week barred religious arbitration of matrimonial disputes.
Marc Stern
From:
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You would probably find analogous cases regarding courts' ability to
apply the requirements of Jewish law to get a Ghet or Get, a
Jewish divorce. The first spelling would obviously be more
westlawable or lexisable.
Sam Ventola
Denver, Colorado
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