Re: American Courts Asked to Interpet Muslim Marriage contract

2006-02-15 Thread Samuel V
You would probably find analogous cases regarding courts' ability to apply the requirements of Jewish law to get a "Ghet" or "Get," a Jewish divorce. The first spelling would obviously be more westlawable or lexisable. Sam Ventola Denver, Colorado On 2/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: American Courts Asked to Interpet Muslim Marriage contract

2006-02-15 Thread Marc Stern
Avitzur  v. Avitzur, 58 NY2d 108.I have a vague recollection of a Moslem marriage cases from somewhere but no longer remember the details. Ontario just this week barred religious arbitration of matrimonial disputes. Marc Stern   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

American Courts Asked to Interpet Muslim Marriage contract

2006-02-15 Thread rjlipkin
 I have a student who is doing a moot court project on whether state courts can settle a dispute over the meaning of an Islamic marriage contract. The parties are resident aliens and the question is whether the courts can interpret the relevant provisions of the religious marriage contract wi

Re: most important recent decisions

2006-02-15 Thread Paul Finkelman
Thanks Yvette, and everyone else. I have been flooded off list and on; will try to provide a summary in a few days or a week Barksdale, Yvette wrote: Hi Paul I would add Raich to that list - because it was the first case that significantly narrowed the potential scope of Morrison and Lopez

Re: most important recent decisions

2006-02-15 Thread Paul Finkelman
well that makes it significant; there is more to the Court than just narrow legal results. ANything that get that much publicity is significant, even if it is not legally a change. Malla Pollack wrote: Why Kelo? I know it produced a storm of protest, but the majority was just following so-cal

RE: ACLU of Ohio Demands Schools Stop Teaching Intelligent Design asScience

2006-02-15 Thread Friedman, Howard M.
This follows on yesterday's 11-4 vote by the Ohio Board of Education to remove from its science standards and related model lesson plan language encouraging teachers to critically analyze evolutionary theory. More on my blog  http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2006/02/ohio-reversal-no-teac