Re: Ten Commandments: My Prediction

2005-03-01 Thread Rick Duncan
It's a little hard to predict because I am not familiar with  European views about displays of the Ten Commandments, and those seem to control the meaning of the US Constitution.   Rick Duncan     Rick Duncan Welpton Professor of Law University of Nebraska College of Law Lincoln, NE 68583-0902Red S

Re: Ten Commandments

2005-03-01 Thread Paul Finkelman
Since the court has NEVER cited the 10 C or hte Bible as legal authority for anything, I am curious how it can be part of our judicial heritage? Steven Jamar wrote: I think the Court could dividedly say that the 10 Commandments are part of our juridical heritage and we use history and traditio

Re: Ten Commandments

2005-03-01 Thread ArtSpitzer
In a message dated 3/1/05 9:15:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey, I'm simply trying to prompt worthwhile conversation -- please feel free to answer whichever questions you think are most interesting! Four Justices will find both displays unconstitutional; Four Justices will find both displays

Re: Ten Commandments

2005-03-01 Thread Marty Lederman
Hey, I'm simply trying to prompt worthwhile conversation -- please feel free to answer whichever questions you think are most interesting! - Original Message - From: "Richard Dougherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Law & Religion issues for Law Academics" ; "Law & Religion issues for Law Ac

Re: Ten Commandments

2005-03-01 Thread Richard Dougherty
>I hesitate to ask this, but does anyone on the list genuinely think that >either of the displays in these cases is constututional? Marty: Do you mean are they constitutional, or will they pass muster with the current Court's understanding of what is consitutional? Those can be very different

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2005-03-01 Thread Douglas Laycock
Good luck tomorrow.   Douglas Laycock University of Texas Law School 727 E. Dean Keeton St. Austin, TX  78705    512-232-1341 (phone)    512-471-6988 (fax)   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of thomas van ordenSent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:25 PMTo: Religionla

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2005-03-01 Thread thomas van orden
Well, I have no prediction but I certainly hope the Texas display is found to violate the First Amendment.  But, I am not objective here! Thomas Van Orden [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscrib

Re: Ten Commandments

2005-03-01 Thread Steven Jamar
I think the Court could dividedly say that the 10 Commandments are part of our juridical heritage and we use history and tradition to justify some things and we have no coercion here and some accommodation could creep in, and state sponsorship is attenuated; plus Moses is on the mural in the Suprem

Ten Commandments

2005-03-01 Thread Marty Lederman
The Pew Forum has posted the trancscript of their recent "event" with Doug Laycock and Jay Sekulow on tomorrow's two Ten Commandments cases:   http://pewforum.org/events/index.php?EventID=69   I haven't read through the whole thing, but Doug's opening presentation is terrific -- would make fo