en's roles.
And none of this is to discuss the expanded role of government funding ( and
levels of taxes) since the founding, at the federal level at least premised on
a reconsidered view of delegated powers such as the spending clause.
Marc Stern
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That’s all true, but the deal used to be no funding and lots of church
autonomy in return., including the right to hire and fire for religious
reasons. The same folks who complain about government funding are quite willing
to allow government regulation of religious organizations with our
.
Marc Stern
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On Mar 28, 2017, at 8:07 AM, Saperstein, David
<dsaperst...@rac.org<mailto:dsaperst...@rac.org>> wrote:
I presume there would have to be actual government action against the
congregation first and then a RFRA d
Before RFRA, the issue was litigated under Sher Bert in the ninth circuit-
I believe a presbyterian church in Tucson. I will dig up the cite when I get to
the office. As I recall, the church lost.
Marc Stern
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On Mar 28, 2017, at 8:07 AM
But the court decisions refusing to recognize RFRA claims in suits between
private parties even where the suit arises under federal statute point the
other way-although by analogy to Shelly and NY TImes v Sullivan,a court
decision is no less action of government than an enforcement action by a
Many years ago , a German style restaurant in California was sued under the
Unruh Act(California's public accommodation law) for
excluding a neo-Nazi group which was seeking to trade on the ethnic cuisine to
enhance its own legitimacy. The restaurant lost at the trial court. I offered
to carry
Isn't it also true that certainly Scalia as well as others have been reluctant
to engage in balancing- as in the scout master case where no justice, as I
recall, discussed the state's interest in non- discrimination? And Smith is in
part premised on the danger in balancing.
Marc Stern
Sent
In Smith v Jefferson County Bd. of School Comm'rs, 13-5957,decided yesterday by
the Sixth Circuit,, the concurring judge(Judge Batchelder) said flat out that
We do not grant monetary damages for violations of the Establishment Clause.
No authority is cited for that proposition ,other than a
As I recall, the leading case in EEOC v Townley Mining and Manufacturing, a
Ninth Circuit case.
Marc D. Stern
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The story is well told in Diane ravitch's The Great School Wars
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I would add that, from a practitioner's point of view, pre- Smith compelling
interest was a large club to swing. It is less than clear to me that the
correct metric for judging a rule of law is a small handful of Supreme Court (
or even published circuit court )opinions which are typically the
A simple fact of prison litigation is that prison officials lie-or simply care
little for the facts-when asserting concerns about security. When I was a law
clerk, the states routinely filed canned briefs asserting grave and unavoidable
security concerns , no matter what the reality was-and in
Today's NY Times Review section has an article by a professor of evolutionary
biology at a public university describing a lecture he gives annually
explaining how that body of science has undermined central claims of
religious traditions.
Is it constitutional for him to give this lecture?
Justice SotamayOr has.
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One of the blue law cases did involve a kosher butcher - I think it was named Crown Kosher
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Assume neither bill becomes law. A wedding photographer hangs a sign in his
shop saying SSM is immoral but state civil rights require us to photograph SSM
ceremonies. A complaint of discrimination is filed. What result?
Marc Stern
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Sent
On Dec 8, 2013, at 10:19 PM, Marc Stern ste...@ajc.org wrote:
True enough: but American Humanist Society recently persuaded a
Florida county to put up theirmonument as a counter to a Ten
Commandments display. Marc
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From: Douglas Laycock [mailto:dlayc
True enough: but American Humanist Society recently persuaded a Florida county
to put up theirmonument as a counter to a Ten Commandments display. Marc
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There was also an exemption for divinity students.
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Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 4:01 PM
To: 'Law Religion issues for Law Academics'
Subject: RE: The Establishment Clause, burden
: The Establishment Clause, burden on others, the employer mandate,
and the draft
And you'll be relieved to know that it was only a coincidence that seminary
applications sky-rocketed beginning around 67.
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On Dec 2, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Marc Stern
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Does anyone know who is going to brief first(upside),and who is going to brief
second (downside in the contraception cases? Or is each case going to brief on
the normal schedule? The docket sheet said nothing late yesterday on this
subject.
Marc
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From:
The UK supreme court today rejected acclaim by owners of a bed and breakfast
that they should have religious liberty right not to host a same sex couple.
Here is link:
http://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/decided-cases/docs/UKSC_2012_0065_Judgment.pdf
Marc
arguing to a
political body like Congress and in an effort to muster public opinion) the
issue was cast in less abstract terms.
Marc Stern
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[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of David Cruz
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 10:02 PM
, doug has consistently
adhered to the same position-that religious liberty standards apply to all
claims but some are more likely to prevail than others.
One can disagree with that position, but it is flat out wrong to accuse Doug of
misleading anyone.
Marc Stern
From: Marci Hamilton
, doug has consistently
adhered to the same position-that religious liberty standards apply to all
claims but some are more likely to prevail than others.
One can disagree with that position, but it is flat out wrong to accuse Doug of
misleading anyone.
Marc Stern
From: Marci Hamilton
Saw it. In the next post, she accuses doug of lying to left wing groups about
RLPA and civil rights. I've responded defending Doug.
Marc
From: Saperstein, David [mailto:dsaperst...@rac.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 07:25 PM
To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics
Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Yeshiva University
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New York, NY 10003
(212) 790-0215
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Sent: Thu, Aug 1, 2013 7:34 pm
Subject: Re: Contraception
Becket does a fair amount of this; so does the Aleph Institute in Miami
Florida. I'd go with Becket.
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Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:31 PM
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Why is this not the pedestrian version of the warrantless GPS?
Marc
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To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu
Subject: RE: High School Student's
to disclose that fact up front. In
practical terms, no employer with any choice at all will hire such a person.
Proving that sort of employment discrimination is almost always impossible in
individual cases
Marc Stern.
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a week services (e.g. police ,hospitals
etc.) have a new , non-statutory, unprecedented, defense in Title VII religious
accommodation cases.
Marc Stern
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Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 12:43 PM
To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu
Subject: RE: German circumcision decision
there is mixed evidence on circumcision. Some
Allowing religious liberty defenses(which have so far been mostly unsuccessful)
no more endangers children than does placing the burden of proof on the
plaintiff in civil cases and the state(beyond a reasonable doubt) in criminal
cases,rules against hearsay or requiring actual confrontation
In short,any accommodation of religion is a violation of the equal protection
clause. This would certainly be a rather sharp departure from the best of the
American tradition. And I guess I have been misinformed all these years in
thinking religious freedom was a basic american value.
Bob's
Except that PETA itself has in the past referred to the way commercial farm
animals are raised as rep[licating conditions in concentration camps.
Marc
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[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of hamilto...@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, April
Might I suggest another way of looking at this debate: race. Not the race of
the drivers and that of their passengers. instead i take it as common ground
that no one would tolerate taxi drivers turning down passengers on the basis of
race. Does it follow that we should treat all prohibited
I had an odler (jewsih) colleague who told me that one of the high points of
his life was playing at Wriggley Field in the Catholic League championship
game. This was in the late 30's or 40's.
Marc
From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu
[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf
. the rationale was to allow
students to avoid religious conflicts.
Marc Stern.
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From: Marci Hamilton [mailto:hamilto...@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 12:25 PM
To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu
Cc: Law Religion issues for Law
Marty is right. but the problem is not limited to the right. The left is
completely unsympathetic to religious liberty claims in equality cases or
reproductive rights cases. Look at hosanna tabor or christian legal
society-the-latter struck me as an easy case the court got all wrong. but look
Presumably a political party could do the same and probably lots of other
ideological organizations could too given the Boy scout decision resting on
freedom of ideological non- association.
Marc
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[mailto:paul.finkel...@albanylaw.edu]
Sent:
Sixty five years ago, the Virginia Supreme Court threw out a juvenile sentence
of this type. One can only wonder why this prosecutor and judge can't see what
was long ago obvious.
Marc
From: Steve Sanders [mailto:steve...@umich.edu]
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 09:05 PM
To: 'Law Religion
Some years ago,the second circuit decided a case involving a teacher at an
elite nyc public school who was a member in the North American Man Boy Love
Society. The teacher said nothing about his membership in school;naturally the
students found out. The second circuit affirmed his dismissal. I
Similar issues were raised-albeit before public forum doctrine was very
developed-and both the Third and DC Circuits held there was no violation of the
EC in allowing a papal mass in a public park. And the cert grant in Fowler v
RI(1952) was to answer the question of whether a religious event
Isn't the kids will get the wrong impression defense explicitly rejected in
Good News -though(I don't have access to the decision)perhaps only by a
plurality.
Marc
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Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 12:43 PM
To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics
The rule in bronx household is that schools can be rented whenever not in use.
They are less frequently in use on sundays, but lots of schools can be rented
on Saturday or Friday nights.
Marc
From: Marty Lederman [mailto:lederman.ma...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 12:54 PM
To: Law
The two decisions in which possible erroneous endorsements play a role are
Pinette and Good News(and maybe the ten commandment cases).In Lee,the problem
was not about a mistake about the existence of endorsement, but what the
meaning of the school's action in including a prayer at graduation.
The first permanent Kosher law was enacted in NY in 1917 to combat what was
then rampant an open fraud in the sale of kosher meat( Its constitutionality
against a due process vagueness challenge was upheld by the US Supreme
Court.). I summarized this history in an article I wrote in the journal
Why isn't Shelley v. Kramer at least relevant, even if it can be
distinguished, and even if it's most extreme implications-that all judicial
enforcement of private activity is state action- would be problematic to
many albeit not always in the same cases?
Marc D. Stern
Associate General
But would this agreement be enforceable in Oklahoma ,with its ban on courts
applying sharia law?
Marc D. Stern
Associate General Counsel
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NY NY 10022
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The lower federal courts in controversies over transit ads still treat
Lehman as good law, See e.g., Entertainment Software v. CTA, 696 F.Supp.2d
934(N.D. Illinois 2010); Ridley v. MBTA, 390 F.3d 65 ( 1st Cir. 2004). I am
unaware of any subsequent Supreme Court case questioning Lehman's continued
In Dixon v. Hallmark Companies, 10-10047,decided last week by the 11th
Circuit, the Court held that an employee fired for protesting a company
decision ordering him (and her) to take down a religious poster in the
office had nor retaliation claim because no objective person would think
there was
The Eleventh Circuit says nothing on that score, though the question is
obvious. I think the reason it did not-aside from the obvious possibility
that appellants may not have raised it-is that the court is so hell bent on
limiting retaliation claims that if a claim is not meritorious on its face
There have been efforts from within Islam to invoke law to silence all
criticism of Islam-witness the persistent efforts at the UN (in various
organs including UNESCO) to ban defamation of religion. In early versions,
the language read especially Islam. But whatever the merits or demerits of
The five judges who dissented on the standing issue stated explicitly that
while the Catholic League did not have standing, the Catholic Church would
have. Why isnt that caveat controlling here?
Marc D. Stern
Associate General Counsel
for Legal Advocacy
ste...@ajc.org
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Oklahoma has enacted a state RFRA. The new constitutional provision would
seem to forbid Muslims and Muslims only- from invoking that law in a case
involving sharia law, i.e., any claim of religious liberty advanced by a
Muslim. (it would also bar, I assume, any claim in the Oklahoma courts by a
: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu
[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Marc Stern
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 11:36 AM
To: 'Law Religion issues for Law Academics'
Subject: RE: TRO against Oklahoma no use of Sharia Law
The five judges who dissented on the standing
Employees whose employers employ less than 15 people also have no protection
under federal law
Marc
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of religion in
the Constitutional scheme allowed for some aid to religion-a holding in
considerable tension with the CLS holding that religion is entitled to
no special treatment.Of course,Norwood predates Smith-.
Marc Stern
From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu
it to deny non-exclusive access to public spaces to groups
that engage in such discrimination. The Court held there that to enforce
non-discrimination rules against such private groups (schools!) would
deny the segregation academies freedom of association. Why isn't Gilmore
controlling here?
Marc Stern
13, 2010 8:11 AM
To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics; hamilto...@aol.com;
Esenberg, Richard
Subject: RE: A real-life on-campus example
Marc Stern is overstating the holding of Gilmore. Most of the opinion
is about a state action question -- whether the city is complicit in the
segregation
It is common for a dismissal as improvidently granted to occur soon
after oral argument. I think too much time has passed to make such a
disposition likely.
Marc
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[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Sanford
What is the relevance of Gilmore v. City of Montgomery,417 US 556 which
held that cities need not,indeed could not, exclude racially segregated
schools from non-exclusive use of public parks so long as there was no
lingering state action. .The Court seems to have held held that to do so
would
It is not true that it never happens. I think it was scientology in the
late 70's or early 80's Scientology tried to take over an anti-cult
group,invokng the Unruh Act. The California courts saw through the
effort.
Marc
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.
On the other hand ,i think the court is right about
retaliation cases not being preempted by the religious exemption.
Marc Stern
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[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf
So , Marci, you would allow this church to picket same sex weddings? And you
would bar pickets from a funeral at which cheney spoke about the importance of
the iraq war?
Marc
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Doug's position was enunciated by courts grappling under sherbet with
claims for sacred marijuana use
marc
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[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Douglas Laycock
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 4:30 PM
To:
yes but there is no guarantee that future inaugurations will be the same
as past ones.
Marc Stern
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[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Friedman,
Howard M.
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:03 PM
Does not US v Ballard (US 1944) state the applicable rule-which is
(unsurprisingly) the rule Doug proposed?
Marc Stern
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[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Douglas Laycock
Sent: Tuesday, August 04
there are cases in which the federal courts ahve upheld
the discharge of political appointees who have made (hostile) religious
statements about homosexuality.
Marc Stern
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of the case
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Sent: Tue Jun 09 19:14:20 2009
Subject: Re: Illinois RFRA
Doug
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Subject: Re: Illinois RFRA
The second circuit held in a split decision somehow dissenting that FRA
displaced the ministerial exCeption
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Sent: Fri 6/5/2009 3:32 PM
To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject:
Ha anyone seen statistics on the religious breakdown of pro-and anti-
Proposition 8 voters
(Chip) Lupu
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:41 PM
To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: marc stern's question re: Prop 8
Please reply to the list if you have any of the data that
Marc Stern is seeking (see below). Thanks.
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if the standard is the that legislature knows what it is doing, nothing
will ever be unconstitutional.
Marc
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[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Brownstein,
Alan
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:51 PM
or the District Court) ?.I don't think she sat in the 2nd
Circuits foray into Christmas observances in the public schools.
Marc Stern
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[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of aa...@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 3
State insurance departments must approve all insurance polices. Does
that make a difference? And is not a refusal ot issue policies to people
who won' accept autopsies, amount to a declaration that certain faith
groups (Jews, Hmong and others) are not eligible for insurance?
Marc Stern
Would the result be the same if a school required community service, but
prohibited students from fulfilling that obligation in a religious
setting, or excluding say Sunday school teaching from the list of
permissible placements?
Marc Stern
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response
will suffice. .this hard line attitude helps explain why many israelis reject
ihl insistence that doubts about the availability of a self defense claim be
resolved against the claim. I will try to find a written summary
Marc stern
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Generally the not for profit corporation leaves so much room to create a
corporate form amenable to one's needs that this should not be a problem
Marc stern
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The american jewish congress also filed a statement opposing the bill.
Unfortunately we were not paid for our efforts either_and we could use the money
Marc stern
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In New York, a religious institution is generally permitted to register under
the secular not for profit corporation law.
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Sent: Wednesday,
Doug is right about the origins of NY's church incorporation law. There was a
formal effort to change the whole structure about 20 years ago, but it got
hung up mostly, as I recall, by the problem of making the transition from old
law on which there were substantial reliance interests to a
Why is equality the test? What if school officials show that believe or go to
hell is disruptive but not recycle or die? There is discussion of this problem
in some of the school confederate paraphernalia cases
Marc
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They are not a party to the pending case; they did join in an amicus
brief.
Marc Stern
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Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:45 PM
To: Law Religion
I don't have the citation handy but this was litigated a few years ago in if
memory serves the 8th circuit. Plaintiff lost.. The employee is claiming a
right to speak for the employer as the employee wants, not the employer
Marc Stern
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interests to no
avail.
Marc Stern
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David (RAC)
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:03 PM
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Subject: RE: Sending Good News Club Fliers Home
Plainly the use of id's on cattle is a mark of the beast.
I am puzzled by Professor Masinter's s reference to Twombly-i don't see
the relevance of the reference.
Marc Stern
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agents may display a
Christian symbol on their ads.
Marc Stern
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Schwartzman
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:56 PM
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Subject: Statue of Jesus and the FHA
In response to Bloch v. Frischholz
I have them on my desk in the office and will get them to whoever asks on
monday assuming ny is not under water
Marc stern
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regularly during the marriage, such that a grant of custody to
the mother might be disorienting to the child?
Marc Stern
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-if it were my client_who is objecting not to the whole pledge as in
barnette
but only the phrase under god - I would probably advise to devise a decoration
that pointedly left out religious references.
Marc stern
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Justices suggested in Grumet.
Marc Stern
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The State has announced it will not be appealing the decision of the
10th Circuit invalidating its restriction on aiding students attending
pervasively sectarian universities.
Marc Stern
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I am travelling and don,t have the citation but the new york court of appeals
held the ketubah is enforceable. The ketubah is the jewish eqiuvalent of the
islamic mahr(indeed the word mahr has a hebrew equivalent mohar_a word used in
the bible in exodus 21
Marc stern
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agreements
I am travelling and don,t have the citation but the new york court of appeals
held the ketubah is enforceable. The ketubah is the jewish eqiuvalent of the
islamic mahr(indeed the word mahr has a hebrew equivalent mohar_a word used in
the bible in exodus 21
Marc stern
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Justice Stevens during oral argument was pretty clear that RLUIPA in the
prison context just assured equal treatment of all faiths,not just those
Ohio chose to accommodate though its chaplaincy program..Since Stevens
views accommodation largely through the prism of discrimination,it is no
surprise
was adopted.)Thus, the question of whether
the religious subsidies advance religious freedom is more complicated
than Alan's post suggests-even before we get to the questioned of
whether the nominal Christianity of public schools in England is itself
any boon to religion.
Marc Stern
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Subject: Cert Grant in Summum
The Supreme Court today granted cert in an unusual Ten Commandments case,
Summum v.
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