RE: Parental rights and physical conduct

2012-07-07 Thread Alan Brownstein
ts.ucla.edu] on behalf of Christopher Lund [l...@wayne.edu] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 10:59 AM To: 'Law & Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct Yes (to Marty.) I’m someone inclined toward Marty’s view, and I think the empiric

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2012-07-06 Thread Volokh, Eugene
e sex, or a wide range of other things. Eugene From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Ira Lupu Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 8:07 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct

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2012-07-06 Thread Volokh, Eugene
...@verizon.net Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 11:02 AM To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct But that is invoking a non-Jewish standard of "Jewishness" (and I speak as someone intensely exasperated by refusal to acknowledge any distinction between &q

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2012-07-06 Thread wlinden2
  But that is invoking a non-Jewish standard of "Jewishness" (and I speak as someone intensely exasperated by refusal to acknowledge any distinction between "ethnic" and "religious" Jewishness.*) Someone can say "I spit on G_d, I spit on Torah, I spit on halakhah."; He can spend Sabbath behind a de

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2012-07-06 Thread Christopher Lund
man Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 1:19 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct Eugene's tattoo example is very helpful for teeing up what has seemed to me to be the important distinction here (one I've tried to stress in my earl

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2012-07-06 Thread Marty Lederman
lve physical injury or threat of injury (and I mean > “injury” here to include physical alterations, such as tattoos). > > ** ** > > Eugene > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto: > religionlaw-boun..

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2012-07-06 Thread Volokh, Eugene
re to include physical alterations, such as tattoos). Eugene From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Christopher Lund Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 9:07 AM To: 'Law & Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject

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2012-07-06 Thread Ira Lupu
ionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] *On Behalf Of *Ira Lupu > *Sent:* Thursday, July 05, 2012 2:45 PM > > *To:* Law & Religion issues for Law Academics > *Subject:* Re: Parental rights and physical conduct > > ** ** > > If Smith's "hybrid rights" expl

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2012-07-06 Thread Christopher Lund
Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct This has been a very interesting discussion. I confess that at this point, I am quite confused about the meaning of "best interests of the child." I understand it is a complex, context-driven, and m

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2012-07-06 Thread Richard Dougherty
I am with Paul in my confusion, and will add only a further question. If we accept the principle that the best interests of the child prevails, does that mean that judges and not parents will always have the decisive say? (As a parent, for example, I think I am always acting in the best interest o

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2012-07-06 Thread Paul Horwitz
This has been a very interesting discussion. I confess that at this point, I am quite confused about the meaning of "best interests of the child." I understand it is a complex, context-driven, and multivalent test. But it would certainly help to understand the foundational values and defaults

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2012-07-06 Thread hamilton02
, NY 10003 (212) 790-0215 hamilto...@aol.com -Original Message- From: Friedman, Howard M. To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Sent: Thu, Jul 5, 2012 3:47 pm Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct Many would argue that it is in the "best interest of the ch

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2012-07-06 Thread Marci Hamilton
PM > To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics > Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct > > I am wondering if Marci thinks Troxel v. Granville (unconstitutional for > legislature to provide for grandparent visitation rights over objection of > custodial parent

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2012-07-06 Thread hamilton02
: Thu, Jul 5, 2012 11:28 pm Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct I agree that the danger to infants from full immersion baptism is very low and perhaps zero; the hypothetical was that it happened in "a handful of cases," but I think that's just a hypothetical.

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2012-07-06 Thread Scarberry, Mark
? Mark Mark S. Scarberry Professor of Law Pepperdine Univ. School of Law From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Ira Lupu Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 2:45 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights

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2012-07-05 Thread Eric Rassbach
& Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct I agree that the danger to infants from full immersion baptism is very low and perhaps zero; the hypothetical was that it happened in "a handful of cases," but I think that's just a hypoth

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2012-07-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
ic Rassbach > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 9:43 AM > To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics > Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct > > > Eugene -- > > I don't think this makes sense because it posits an impossible universe of > zero-risk pare

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2012-07-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
sberg Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 11:35 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct Let me try again. The discussion has focused on the rights of the parents and of the state. The children have come into the discussion only as objects o

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2012-07-05 Thread Eric Rassbach
> claim no actuarial expertise on the matter. > > Eric > > > From: > religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu> > [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu

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2012-07-05 Thread Marci Hamilton
ference >> > with parental rights. And I imagine that the danger to infants from either >> > circumcision or full immersion baptism is far lower than driving them >> > around town, though I claim no actuarial expertise on the matter. >> > >> > Eric >> &

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2012-07-05 Thread Ira Lupu
nce with parental rights. And I imagine that the danger to infants >> from either circumcision or full immersion baptism is far lower than >> driving them around town, though I claim no actuarial expertise on the >> matter. >> > >> > Eric >> > >> >

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2012-07-05 Thread Alan Brownstein
cla.edu [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of Ira Lupu [icl...@law.gwu.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 2:44 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct If Smith's "hybrid rights" explanation of Yoder is all there is ag

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2012-07-05 Thread Marci Hamilton
) or > > alter their own bodies (in the circumcision example) for the sake of their > > religious beliefs, or for that matter for the sake of their secular > > beliefs. But why does it follow that they should have the right to impose > > such risks on others, even others to who

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2012-07-05 Thread Ira Lupu
If Smith's "hybrid rights" explanation of Yoder is all there is against my argument that religious motivation should add or subtract nothing from parental rights to engage in particular child-rearing practices, I'll happily rest my case. All I'm suggesting is that once we have a general set of co

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2012-07-05 Thread Scarberry, Mark
(310)506-4667 From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Ira Lupu Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:34 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct Our ordinary, wide-spread, and long-stan

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2012-07-05 Thread Friedman, Howard M.
cultural or religious bias on the question of risk? Howard -Original Message- From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu on behalf of Marci Hamilton Sent: Thu 7/5/2012 2:59 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Cc: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental

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2012-07-05 Thread Ira Lupu
to infants > from either circumcision or full immersion baptism is far lower than > driving them around town, though I claim no actuarial expertise on the > matter. > > > > Eric > > > > > > From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [ > religionlaw-b

RE: Parental rights and physical conduct

2012-07-05 Thread Alan Brownstein
issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct In the context of abuse of children, religion just does not and should not matter to the state. There are three general cases: 1. The conduct is abusive per se (e.g., repeated and heavy beatings of a child). We don't

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2012-07-05 Thread Eric Rassbach
Ira Lupu [icl...@law.gwu.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 2:42 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct In the context of abuse of children, religion just does not and should not matter to the state. There are three general cases: 1.

Re: Parental rights and physical conduct

2012-07-05 Thread Marci Hamilton
__ > From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] > On Behalf Of Volokh, Eugene [vol...@law.ucla.edu] > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:31 PM > To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics > Subject: RE: Parental rights

Re: Parental rights and physical conduct

2012-07-05 Thread Ira Lupu
> ucdavis@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of Ira Lupu [icl...@law.gwu.edu] > *Sent:* Thursday, July 05, 2012 9:50 AM > > *To:* Law & Religion issues for Law Academics > *Subject:* Re: Parental rights and physical conduct > > I think Howard's baptism example helps

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2012-07-05 Thread Brian Landsberg
f Of Alan Brownstein Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 11:21 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct I thought we were long past the argument that the only basis for protecting religious liberty was that the state had a favorable perspective

RE: Parental rights and physical conduct

2012-07-05 Thread Alan Brownstein
in=ucdavis@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-bounces+aebrownstein=ucdavis@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of Ira Lupu [icl...@law.gwu.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 9:50 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Parental rights and physical conduct I think Howard's baptism ex

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2012-07-05 Thread Ira Lupu
-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto: > religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] *On Behalf Of *Friedman, Howard M. > *Sent:* Thursday, July 05, 2012 8:52 AM > > *To:* Law & Religion issues for Law Academics > *Subject:* RE: Parental rights and physical conduct > > ** ** > > What

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2012-07-05 Thread Eric Rassbach
olokh, Eugene [vol...@law.ucla.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:31 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct I appreciate Howard’s point, but the question is: Why should some children who by definition do not share a religio

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2012-07-05 Thread Eric Rassbach
nd. That conclusion dictates the outcome here. From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Ira Lupu [icl...@law.gwu.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 11:07 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Paren

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2012-07-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
: Thursday, July 05, 2012 8:52 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Parental rights and physical conduct What has been absent from all of the discussion on this issue is the importance to Jewish belief of circumcision while the son is an infant. This ceremony at 8-days

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2012-07-05 Thread Friedman, Howard M.
olokh, Eugene Sent: Thu 7/5/2012 10:57 AM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Parental rights and physical conduct This raises a fascinating and practically very important question (because there are more than 10 times as many American parents who authorize circumc

Re: Parental rights and physical conduct

2012-07-05 Thread Ira Lupu
I don't know why we should be limited to the particulars of Supreme Court decisions when we think about this. I suggest that the approach I outlined is deeply embedded in the statutory and judge-made law of all the states. And, if I'm right about, then the relevant constitutional doctrines of subs

Parental rights and physical conduct

2012-07-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
This raises a fascinating and practically very important question (because there are more than 10 times as many American parents who authorize circumcision for nonreligious reasons than for religious reasons): Do Meyer/Pierce rights extend to the right to raise one's child in th