I've posted a link to the bill and to a related commentary at
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/lgbtlaw/2009/03/two-ct-lawmaker.html.
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Steve Sanders
http://www.mayerbrown.com/lawyers/profile.asp?hubbardid=S597744167
Attorney, Supreme Court and appellate
I've been reading about this bill. Under this legislation, a board elected by
the congregation would have the following powers:
(1) Establishing and approving budgets;
(2) Managing the financial affairs of the corporation;
(3) Providing for the auditing of the financial records of the
This is plainly unconstitutional and not terribly interesting from that angle.
It is interesting though from a sociological and political angle. It was
Catholic parishioners who asked for it after their priest absconded with about
a million of their dollars.
Marci
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I¹m getting ready to teach Constitutional Law and Federal Courts today and
for the start of The Global Arc of Justice conference I¹ve been helping plan
(http://www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/programs/GlobalArcofJustice2009.h
tml), so I haven¹t had time to read the bill or about it. Question:
Earlier today we discussed a bill in Connecticut to impose Protestant forms of
church governance on the Catholic Church. The bill has been pulled and
tomorrow's hearing has been cancelled, apparently due to a flood of calls to
legislators. Church leaders in Connecticut are not convinced
Well done, Doug et al.
While the signers of the letter disagree on a topic or two in the area
of religious freedom and constitutional interpretation of the religion
clauses, there is a huge breadth of space over which they and I
suspect nearly all constitutional law experts agree. This is
The fun is in the matters that are close to the line.
Whenever the law draws a line, there will be cases very near each
other on opposite sides. The precise course of the line may be
uncertain, but no one can come near it without knowing that he does
so…. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. U.S. v.
you are welcome -- and thanks for the current best info on the origin of the
phrase.
steve
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Douglas Laycock layco...@umich.edu wrote:
Thanks, Steve.
I was one of those people who once attributed eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty to Jefferson. In
