RE: No religious advertisements on municipal buses

2010-12-20 Thread Corcos, Christine
Fort Worth. See here. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/us/17brfs-atheist.html?partner=rssemc=rss I think it may be a reaction to part of a campaign (linked to a similar campaign in Canada) that is continuing the Good Without God campaign that was launched last year. See here.

RE: Augusta State University student sues school over requirementthatshe und...

2010-07-28 Thread Corcos, Christine
Has anyone looked at the Ward case (brought against Eastern Michigan University)? If there has been discussion of this case, I missed it and I apologize. See http://chronicle.com/article/Judge-Upholds-Dismissal-of/123704/?sid=atutm_source=atutm_medium=en Here's the grant of summary judgment

RE: Sunday Laws

2009-05-21 Thread Corcos, Christine
These might help, both for history and for contemporary debate. Mike Balestra, Note: Thou Shall Not Hunt: A Historical Introduction to and Discussion of the Modern Debate Over Sunday Hunting Laws, 96 Ky. L. J. 447 (2007/2008) Wayne Edison Fuller, Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century

RE: City rejects atheist bus ad as too controversial

2009-05-16 Thread Corcos, Christine
The Indiana Atheists had also contracted with the bus company in South Bend to put its ads on buses before President Obama came to South Bend to speak at Notre Dame, and had paid the company that arranges for advertising. That company cashed the check. But now Transpo, which is the bus

RE: Degrading religion

2007-10-08 Thread Corcos, Christine
I haven't yet read the new book by Garry Wills, Head and Heart: American Christianities, but I think he takes this as his theme. Christine Corcos LSU Law Center From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Laycock Sent: Monday,

RE: Mormon Student, Justice, ACLU Join Up

2007-08-31 Thread Corcos, Christine
No idea. Maybe they can serve at any point. If I get a chance, I'll ask him. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 5:46 AM To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: Mormon Student,

RE: Mormon Student, Justice, ACLU Join Up

2007-08-30 Thread Corcos, Christine
I asked an LDS colleague of mine about this issue. If I understood him correctly, he said the mission must be completed before the individual is 26, but there's no requirement that the person interrupt his schooling. Christine Corcos LSU Law From: [EMAIL

RE: Christian Skating Time

2006-07-05 Thread Corcos, Christine
The New York Division of Human Rights dropped its opposition late last month. See http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/07/01/news-pbbackoff-07-01.html and a post at something called Verum Serum http://www.verumserum.com/?p=392 reproducing the letter indicating the Division is dropping the

RE: most important recent decisions

2006-02-14 Thread Corcos, Christine
Kelo v. City of New London (2005)? Christine Corcos Associate Professor of Law Faculty Graduate Studies Program Supervisor Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies Program LSU AM W325 Law Building 1 East Campus Drive Baton Rouge LA

RE: Denmark Cartoons and Blasphemy

2006-02-08 Thread Corcos, Christine
See this website http://www.interights.org/page.php?dir=Publicationpage=premingeramicus.php In Denmark, while a law prohibiting blasphemy exists under Section 140 of the Danish Penal Code, it has not been used since 1938. The Danish Penal Code also contains a provision (Section 266b)

School District drops Intelligent Design Class

2006-01-18 Thread Corcos, Christine
See this story Christine Corcos Associate Professor of Law Faculty Graduate Studies Program Supervisor Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies Program LSU AM W325 Law Building 1 East Campus Drive Baton Rouge LA 70803 tel: 225/578-8327

RE: Dover Intelligent-Design Case

2005-12-20 Thread Corcos, Christine
May I suggest that before we all decide whether Judge Jones acted properly or improperly in charging members of the school board with doing this or that, or has improperly suggested that this person or that person lied, we should read the opinion? Ive read it, and Im going to read it

RE: Swedish Pastor Beats Hate Crime Rap

2005-11-30 Thread Corcos, Christine
With regard to whether the Swedish high court looked at US cases, I would think that it did not, or at least, that if it did, that US cases wouldnt necessarily be any more persuasive than any other nations. I would think that it would look first to its own statute and then to the European

RE: Challenge to Sales Tax Exemption on Religious Items

2005-11-21 Thread Corcos, Christine
I couldn't call up that link but here's another one. http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/13180924.htm Christine Corcos Associate Professor of Law Faculty Graduate Studies Program Supervisor Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies

RE: Challenge to Sales Tax Exemption on Religious Items

2005-11-21 Thread Corcos, Christine
The lower court ruled 2-1 that Wiccan didn't have standing because it benefited from the exemption. Here's the language. In the instant case, Wiccan's constitutional challenge is that, based on the reasoning found in Texas Monthly, the Florida sales tax exemption benefits religion. The parties

RE: Social Notes from All Over

2005-11-04 Thread Corcos, Christine
Title: RE: Alito Views SCOTUS Doctrine as Giving Impression of Hostilityto Religious Expression Actually, it still appears to be Windsor. See http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page135.asp and http://www.royal.gov.uk/files/pdf/Windsor%20family%20tree.pdf. The name of the Earl of Wessexs

RE: Forwarding or other republishing of posts without obtainingpermission of author

2005-10-14 Thread Corcos, Christine
I searched religionlaw, in Google, which brought up the Religionlaw archive page. Searching religionlaw Mark Scarberry (nothing personal, Mark) also brought up something called opensubscriber.com, which also indexes the religionlaw list.So I suppose a reporter who wanted to know what

Darwin's Black Box...

2005-08-19 Thread Corcos, Christine
Wellat least one of us.have a nice weekend, all. Christine Corcos Associate Professor of Law Faculty Graduate Studies Program Supervisor Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies Program LSU AM W325 Law Building 1 East Campus

RE: Feature films on church and state

2005-08-12 Thread Corcos, Christine
Bob Jarvis and I are editing a casebook on law and film which Lexis will publish next year. Christine Corcos Associate Professor of Law Faculty Graduate Studies Program Supervisor Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies