RE: Anti-gay church verdict

2007-11-02 Thread Will Linden
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Jamar Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:22 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Anti-gay church verdict Could we not ban ALL demonstrations at funerals of private people

Re: Anti-gay church verdict

2007-11-01 Thread Douglas Laycock
Tough call.  Hustler v. Falwell says that intentional infliction of emotional distress, when based on political speech, requires actual malice.  But there the IIED claim was based on the content of the speech.  Here, assuming the plaintiff's lawyer made a sensible jury argument, the IIED claim

Re: Anti-gay church verdict

2007-11-01 Thread marty . lederman
And, of course, unlike in Hustler, the persons at whom the speech was directed here were not public figures. On this point, I highly recommend Robert Post's article on Hustler, The Constitutional Concept of Public Discourse: Outrageous Opinion, Democratic Deliberation, Hustler Magazine v.

RE: Anti-gay church verdict

2007-11-01 Thread Volokh, Eugene
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Laycock Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:02 AM To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: Anti-gay church verdict Tough call. Hustler v. Falwell

RE: Anti-gay church verdict

2007-11-01 Thread Douglas Laycock
Laycock         Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:02 AM         To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu         Subject: Re: Anti-gay church verdict         Tough call.  Hustler v. Falwell says that intentional infliction of emotional distress, when based on political speech, requires actual

RE: Anti-gay church verdict

2007-11-01 Thread Esenberg, Richard
Of Volokh, Eugene Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:17 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: RE: Anti-gay church verdict Yet surely the claim must have been based on the content of the speech as well as the time, place, and manner. It's extremely unlikely that a jury

RE: Anti-gay church verdict

2007-11-01 Thread Joel Sogol
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Jamar Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:22 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Anti-gay church verdict Could we not ban ALL demonstrations at funerals of private people? That would be content neutral. And we can ban the greater, can we

RE: Anti-gay church verdict

2007-11-01 Thread Joel Sogol
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RE: Anti-gay church verdict

2007-11-01 Thread Volokh, Eugene
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Jamar Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:22 AM To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Anti-gay church verdict Could we not ban ALL demonstrations at funerals of private people? That would be content neutral. And we can ban the greater, can we

RE: Anti-gay church verdict

2007-11-01 Thread Volokh, Eugene
. Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:15 AM To: 'Law Religion issues for Law Academics' Subject: RE: Anti-gay church verdict Isn't this analogous to Frisby, approving a ban on targeted picketing as content-neutral even though the privacy interest being

RE: Anti-gay church verdict

2007-11-01 Thread Volokh, Eugene
. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Laycock Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:37 AM To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: RE: Anti-gay church verdict Well, it's a combination of the two

RE: Anti-gay church verdict

2007-11-01 Thread Brownstein, Alan
for Law Academics Subject: RE: Anti-gay church verdict I agree that it is the question -- but it's important to recognize, I think, that this is a core content-based speech restriction case, not just one that is to be judged under the more forgiving Ward v. Rock Against Racism content-neutral