Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Volokh, Eugene
One problem with public complaints about how the Justices making various decisions are Catholics, and how about that surely influences their views -- besides, of course, than Mark Graber's point that such influence is pretty hard to show, given that their more general political id

RE: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Sisk, Gregory C.
awprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:conlawprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu> [mailto:conlawprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Eric J Segall Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 4:31 PM To: Sisk, Gregory C.; 'Law & Religion issues for Law Academics' Cc: 'conlawp...@lists.ucla.edu

RE: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Sisk, Gregory C.
Thanking Step Feldman for his mention, the empirical studies that Michael Heise, Andrew Morriss, and I have conducted on religious liberty decisions in the federal courts did indeed find that religion was an important factor on Free Exercise decisions - but it tended to the religion of the claim

Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Steven Jamar
Cardozo wrote that sometimes he had trouble deciding cases then the answer would just come to him while walking down the street - -and then he had to put that insight into the legal framework we accept as proper. Surely the same is true today on major cases and even in cases where the result is

RE: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Kniffin, Eric N.
cla.edu<mailto:conlawprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu> [conlawprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of Levinson, Sanford V [slevin...@law.utexas.edu] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 3:02 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Cc: CONLAWPROF Subject: Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion

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2014-07-11 Thread Walsh, Kevin
boun...@lists.ucla.edu [religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of Finkelman, Paul [paul.finkel...@albanylaw.edu] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 3:34 PM To: Levinson, Sanford V; Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Cc: CONLAWPROF Subject: RE: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off

RE: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Finkelman, Paul
as.edu] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 3:02 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Cc: CONLAWPROF Subject: Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"? Paul is correct on all counts. I'd be even stronger in emphasizing that none of the current justices has

Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Marc Stern
ealt the day-to-day legal issues that most Americans face? From: "Levinson, Sanford V" To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Cc: CONLAWPROF Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 3:02 PM Subject: Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limit

Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Renee L. Cyr, Esq.
Suite 1502 New York, NY 10001 (212) 867-1067 -Original Message- From: Richard Friedman To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Cc: Patrick Wiseman ; conlawp...@lists.ucla.edu Sent: Fri, Jul 11, 2014 3:04 pm Subject: Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off L

Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Paul Finkelman
that most Americans face? From: "Levinson, Sanford V" To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Cc: CONLAWPROF Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 3:02 PM Subject: Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"? Paul is

RE: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Graber, Mark
One problem with religion at present is that it is very, very, very unclear whether religion is doing any work at all. Consider the obvious. The five most religious Catholics on the court were appointed by conservative Republican presidents. The three Jews and the least religious Catholic on

Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
edu<mailto:conlawprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu> [conlawprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:conlawprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu>] on behalf of Richard Friedman [rdfrd...@umich.edu<mailto:rdfrd...@umich.edu>] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 1:52 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Cc:

Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Richard Friedman
ol" of the dead, how can it not be the >>> case that the justices' life experiences--jobs, schools, politics, >>> faith--are playing a role in how they decide cases? >>> >>> John Bickers >>> Salmon P. Chase College of Law >>> Northern Kent

Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Levinson, Sanford V
n...@lists.ucla.edu> [conlawprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:conlawprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu>] on behalf of Myron Moskovitz [mmoskov...@ggu.edu<mailto:mmoskov...@ggu.edu>] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 1:04 PM To: CONLAWPROF Subject: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "

Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Marty Lederman
mmon symbol" of the dead, how can it not be the case that >> the justices' life experiences--jobs, schools, politics, faith--are playing >> a role in how they decide cases? >> >> John Bickers >> Salmon P. Chase College of Law >> Northern Kentucky University >> ---

RE: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Finkelman, Paul
s.ucla.edu [conlawprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of Richard Friedman [rdfrd...@umich.edu] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 1:52 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Cc: CONLAWPROF Subject: Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"? Well, one thing that might fo

Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Richard Friedman
; Salmon P. Chase College of Law >> Northern Kentucky University >> -- >> *From:* conlawprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [ >> conlawprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] on behalf of Myron Moskovitz [ >> mmoskov...@ggu.edu] >> *Sent:* Friday, July 1

Re: Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"?

2014-07-11 Thread Marty Lederman
kov...@ggu.edu] > *Sent:* Friday, July 11, 2014 1:04 PM > *To:* CONLAWPROF > *Subject:* Is Discussion of Justices' Religion "Off Limits"? > > > > > > I replied that a judge's life experiences form at least part of his or her > approach to resolv