Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision

2015-08-16 Thread Alan Reinach
is more specific than "Re: Contents of Religionlaw digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision (Finkelman, Paul) 2. Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision (Scarberry, Mark) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri,

Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision

2015-08-14 Thread Scarberry, Mark
Eugene From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu> [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Levinson, Sanford V Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 11:16 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Colorado Cakeshop

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2015-08-14 Thread Finkelman, Paul
erity. Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE device -- Original message-- From: Volokh, Eugene Date: Fri, Aug 14, 2015 10:45 AM To: Paul Finkelman;Law & Religion issues for Law Academics; Cc: Subject:RE: Colorado Cakeshop decision I’m not sure I understand how Prof. Finkelm

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2015-08-14 Thread Berg, Thomas C.
_ From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of Jean Dudley [jean.dud...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 12:07 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision On Aug 14, 2015, at 6:03 AM, Volokh

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2015-08-14 Thread Jean Dudley
> On Aug 14, 2015, at 6:03 AM, Volokh, Eugene wrote: > > 2. The “single grocer in town” hypothetical may be relevant to the > compelling government interest inquiry – maybe one could argue that the > government has a compelling interest in making sure that everyone has access > to food witho

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2015-08-14 Thread Scarberry, Mark
Marty makes a good but not dispositive point. In any event we have to be sure this doesn't turn into a principle that bars people who belong to a certain religion from some professions. There are analogous and very disturbing historical prohibitions, not limited to those the mention of which wou

Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision

2015-08-14 Thread Marty Lederman
The burden on religious exercise if you have to give up your business *might *be quite substantial, especially if means choosing between your religion and sacrificing many years of work, costs, good will, self-fulfillment, etc. But not if "giving it up" means "not starting down that path in the fi

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2015-08-14 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
erwise?” sandy From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu> [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Volokh, Eugene Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 10:27 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Colorado Cakeshop decisio

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2015-08-14 Thread Scarberry, Mark
lists.ucla.edu> [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Levinson, Sanford V Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 11:16 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Colorado Cakeshop decision I suppose I’m like the naïve first-year student who begins with the assumptio

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2015-08-14 Thread Volokh, Eugene
I appreciate Marty’s argument, but I’m not sure it quite works. The burden of giving up your business (if you want to avoid violating your religious beliefs) strikes me as quite substantial, just as is the burden of giving up your unemployment compensation (if you want to avoid v

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2015-08-14 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Levinson, Sanford V Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 11:16 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Colorado Cakeshop decision I suppose I'm like the naïve first-year student who begins with the assumption that "common carrier" ju

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2015-08-14 Thread Marty Lederman
***** > > > > -- > *From:* religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu < > religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu> on behalf of Volokh, Eugene < > vol...@law.ucla.edu> > *Sent:* Friday, August 14, 2015 11:27 AM > > *To:* L

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2015-08-14 Thread Volokh, Eugene
onlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Finkelman, Paul Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 11:41 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision what is "magical" about common carrier is that if you go into the bus

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2015-08-14 Thread Finkelman, Paul
aw.edu> www.paulfinkelman.com<http://www.paulfinkelman.com/> * From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu on behalf of Volokh, Eugene Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 11:27 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Colorado Cakeshop decision I still don’t quite

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2015-08-14 Thread Volokh, Eugene
...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Finkelman Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 11:28 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision Because, that is what a common carrier does. Put it another way, if the common carrier

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2015-08-14 Thread Paul Finkelman
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2015-08-14 Thread Volokh, Eugene
e on monopolists rest, presumably, on a different analysis than the duties we impose on Ollie's Barbecue to stop being a bigot. sandy From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu> [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf

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2015-08-14 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
impose on Ollie's Barbecue to stop being a bigot. sandy From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Volokh, Eugene Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 10:06 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Colorado Cakeshop

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2015-08-14 Thread Volokh, Eugene
edu] On Behalf Of Finkelman, Paul Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 10:32 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision Eugene: I am trying to figure out what would be the "inappropriate" use of the Deli's sandwiches? Is it feeding doctors

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2015-08-14 Thread Volokh, Eugene
Eugene From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Levinson, Sanford V Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 10:41 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision I suppose one might argue that busin

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2015-08-14 Thread K Chen
ch I think is just fine. But other people > care more about the behavior of their customers (and for that matter of > their suppliers) – indeed, many who praise “corporate social > responsibility” support that general approach. And when the business feels > a religious objection in such a situat

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2015-08-14 Thread Nelson Tebbe
rsday, August 13, 2015 10:58 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision This is an interesting example. (And I thank Eugene for his typically thoughtful answer.) Can one distinguish between the illegitimate direct use of the product (to kill human

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2015-08-14 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision This is an interesting example. (And I thank Eugene for his typically thoughtful answer.) Can one distinguish between the illegitimate direct use of the product (to kill human beings) and the mere fact that the cu

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2015-08-14 Thread Finkelman, Paul
u> www.paulfinkelman.com<http://www.paulfinkelman.com/> * From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu on behalf of Volokh, Eugene Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 7:51 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Colorado Cak

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2015-08-14 Thread Nelson Tebbe
ionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu> [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Levinson, Sanford V Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:58 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision This is an interesting example

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2015-08-14 Thread Volokh, Eugene
ndlord refusals to rent to unmarried couples, which led to different results in different states. Eugene From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Levinson, Sanford V Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:58 PM To: Law & R

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2015-08-14 Thread Marc Stern
/AJCGlobal<http://www.twitter.com/AJCGlobal> [cid:image001.jpg@01D0D66C.3EA30EF0] From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Friedman, Howard M. Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 6:21 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subjec

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2015-08-14 Thread Friedman, Howard M.
To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision There are moral/ethical dilemmas, and then there are legal ones; In the case of the KKK and selling sheets, it could be argued that a shop owner could refuse to sell sheets and pillow cases because a l

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2015-08-13 Thread Jean Dudley
And when the business feels a religious >> objection in such a situation, any existing religious exemption regime would >> be implicated, wouldn’t it be? >> >> >> >>Eugene >> >> >> >> From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla

Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision

2015-08-13 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
@lists.ucla.edu> [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu>] On Behalf Of Levinson, Sanford V Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 7:20 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision A non-rhetorical question: i

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2015-08-13 Thread K Chen
; > >Eugene > > > > *From:* religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto: > religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] *On Behalf Of *Levinson, Sanford V > *Sent:* Thursday, August 13, 2015 7:20 PM > *To:* Law & Religion issues for Law Academics > *Subject:* R

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2015-08-13 Thread Volokh, Eugene
d, wouldn't it be? Eugene From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Levinson, Sanford V Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 7:20 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Colorado Cakeshop decision A non-rhetorica

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2015-08-13 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
Eugene From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu> [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Marty Lederman Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 5:06 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Colorado Cakeshop decisio

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2015-08-13 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
before. Eugene From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu> [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Marty Lederman Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 5:06 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics S

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2015-08-13 Thread Volokh, Eugene
[mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Marty Lederman Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 5:06 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Colorado Cakeshop decision https://www.courts.state.co.us/Courts/Court_of_Appeals/Opinion/2015/14CA1351-PD.pdf Fairly straightforward. Rejects

Colorado Cakeshop decision

2015-08-13 Thread Marty Lederman
https://www.courts.state.co.us/Courts/Court_of_Appeals/Opinion/2015/14CA1351-PD.pdf Fairly straightforward. Rejects free speech and free exercise claims. (The case does not involve a refusal to bake a cake displaying any particular "content" -- the bakery refused to bake *any* cake for a same-se