Illinois Appellate Court holds that the state RFRA doesn't apply
to judicial decisions, Marsaw v. Richards, 2006 WL 2715266 (Sept. 22).
Eugene
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The court's discussion of this subject was quite cursory and
unsatisfactory. Basically, it said, of the argument that a court
decision is itself government action, it's never been raised before,
so we won't consider it. It's not exactly an ancient statute, so
courts should be prepared to deal
Colleagues, please excuse me, but I need
to get in touch with Frances Patterson. If she is following this list, I hope
that she will contact me ASAP. I am working on an article, and an earlier post
from her on this list raised some matters that are particularly relevant to
that enterprise.
Ed,
You wrote, "And if, as you say, most of those situations are cleared up by
a letter explaining the law, is it really an attempt to suppress, or is it
merely ignorance of the law? Seems the latter would be a far more reasonable
description of what is going on."
Certainlythere are some
On Sep 26, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Kimberlee Wood Colby wrote: The DOE guidelines certainly have helped the SYATP situation, but there are a lot of school administrators who are: 1) still afraid of the ACLU, etc., filing a lawsuit if they allow any religious activity; 2) haven't kept up on the
On Sep 26, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Gary McCaleb wrote: Off the top of my head, ACLU has demonstrated its commitment to religious freedom by filing suit in Arizona (again) against tax credits that may incidentally benefit private religious schools; filing an amicus brief opposing our Equal Access Act
