The wanted posters in this case, because they do not advocate violence
explicitly, sound somewhat like the ones that an en banc panel of the 9th
Circuit found to be unprotected "threats of force" under the First Amendment
for purposes of the Freedom of Access to Clinics Entrances Act (FACE) in
I thought members of this list might be interested in an interview of the
ACLJ's Jay Sekulow that ran on Fox News last Friday discussing possible
replacements for Justice Souter with much of the time spent discussing Judge
Sonia Sotomayor. Although Sekulow never mentioned any specific opinion or
s
Although I'm not claiming the school was correct in this instance, there is
a context to the case that the ADF press release completely leaves out. I used
to be surprised at the dishonesty of these ADF press releases, but now I see
them as puzzles where the challenge is to find the actual fac
FYI, the latest addition to my website: _ACLU Fights for Christians_
(http://aclufightsforchristians.com)
Allen Asch
Release taken from
_http://www.aclu-nj.org/news/acluprotectsprisonersrelig.htm_
(http://www.aclu-nj.org/news/acluprotectsprisonersrelig.htm)
ACLU Protects Prisoner's Relig
In a message dated 12/16/2007 8:14:57 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
news gets slow to michigan? :)
_http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/12/national/main3609322.shtml_
(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/12/national/main3609322.shtml)
Thanks for the link! I h
See also the ACLU Press release at:
_http://www.aclu-nj.org/pressroom/schoolviolatesreligiousfre.htm_
(http://www.aclu-nj.org/pressroom/schoolviolatesreligiousfre.htm)
And the ACLU complaint at:
_http://www.aclu-nj.org/legal/legaldocket/shareefvnewarkpublicschool.htm_
(http://www.aclu-nj
I thought list members might be interested in the ACLU's latest fight for
Christian free exercise rights
The full January 11 article from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette is at:
_http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07011/752795-152.stm_
(http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07011/752795-152.stm)
Here is
Dear ReligionLaw readers,
In the last few months, I've made a few submissions to this list about new
cases I've added to my webpage at _http://www.ACLUFightsForChristians.com_
(http://www.ACLUFightsForChristians.com) . As I explain on that page, the
reason
I created that list of cases was t
On November 13, 2006, the ACLU of Louisiana won a court order allowing a
man to stand in front of Wal-Mart holding a sign reading, "Christians:
Wal-Mart Supports Gay Lifestyles And Marriage. Don't Shop There."
You can see AP coverage here:
http://tinyurl.com/yekh3h
You can see an ACLU pr
It turns out MY email system didn't read the link, so, for ease of
access for those who prefer it, here's the link to my website:
ACLU Fights For
Christians
--- Begin Message ---
At the request of some people at an ACLU affiliate for which I do some
work, I've moved some information I've be
At the request of some people at an ACLU affiliate for which I do some
work, I've moved some information I've been compiling on my Comcast
homepage to its own website at:
ACLU Fights for Christians
If your email system does not read links, the web address is:
http://www.aclufightsforchristian
I thought many of the topics discussed at this week's ACLU Membership
Conference might be of interest to list members. I caught some of the
ACLU Membership Conference on C-SPAN (still rerunning one program on
C-SPAN2 tonight) and I also found a lot of content available as
streaming video or dow
In a message dated 9/25/2006 7:33:22 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
has
there been any case where anyone has filed suit to stop the actual event? Or
even a statement from groups like the ACLU or Americans United that the event
itself was unconstitutional?
To the
The case I remember is Warner v. City of Boca Raton, 267 F.3d 1223
(11th Cir. 2001)
It's at: http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/199913730.OPN.pdf
Then it went through the Florida Supreme Court and ended up at: http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/199913730.pdf
Hope that helps
In a message dated 8/6/2006 9:48:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would
argue that if the graduation speaker is chosen according to some objective
criteria, as when the valedictorian automatically is invited to speak, then
the school should not exercise any con
they were a bit ham-handed
inrefusing to give her the diploma.
sandyFrom:
religionlaw-bounces
at lists.ucla.edu[mailto:religionlaw-bounces
at lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of AAsch at
aol.comSent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:00 PMTo: religionlaw
at lists.ucla.eduSubject: Fox News Forg
I've just released another video at: Fox News Forgets Fact in
Christian Graduation Speech Story
(if the link doesn't work, the URL is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zafkek_--ug)
It's 3 minutes 17 seconds long, but 2+ minutes is the actual Fox News
story. It involves the case of Erica Cord
I've uploaded a video to YouTube that uses recent
funeral picketing coverage to document misinformation about ACLU religion
cases from Bill O'Reilly and Fox News. The video is at this link/address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfTnghfe0nI
Thanks for indulging my (hopefully on-topic) se
I got the posture of the case wrong in my previous one sentence
description. Here is a more accurate description of the case history:
"In 2001, a Superior Court judge threw out the
lawsuit on the grounds that federal rules covering employer health plans bar
state civil rights actions. The
The California Supreme Court this week agreed to hear the case of North
Coast Women's Care Medical Group vs. Superior Court in which a lesbian
appeals the dismissal of her case against doctors who asserted their
religious beliefs as a reason to deny her infertility treatments.
For several n
Some info from the involved ACLU affiliate is at this link:
http://www.aclu-ky.org/news.html#Grad%20Prayer
That info includes the following paragraph:
"School-sponsored prayer constitutes a symbolic
and tangible ‘preference… given by law’ to a religious sect by exalting it over
contrary
Interesting lawsuit developing in California. Full story at:
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/14233850p-15055603c.html
Here are the four most relevant paragraphs:
"The Hindu American Foundation's complaint,
filed in Sacramento Superior Court last week, claims the textbooks, as
Excerpt of 2/14/2006 press release:
TOLEDO, OH -- The American Civil Liberties Union
of Ohio today sent a letter to the Toledo Public Schools demanding that they
cease allowing staff to teach intelligent design in science classrooms
throughout the district.
"Intelligent design has been pr
The case I've seen cited on this issue is Committee for Public Ed.
& Religious Liberty v. Nyquist, 413 U.S. 756, 777 (1973) which
says:
"If the State may not erect buildings in which religious activities
are to take place, it may not maintain such buildings or renovate them when they
fall
The quoted language exactly duplicates the language of California Health
and Safety Code § 1367.25(b)(1) which is available at:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/hsc/1367-1374.16.html
And, that exemption was written by the ACLU, according to the ACLU press
release at:
http://www.acl
I have a couple cites to cases where state laws granting exemptions to
vaccination requirements were struck down as violating the Establishment Clause
because they only applied to "recognized religions." See Dalli v. Board of
Educ., 267 N.E. 2d 219 (Mass. 1971) and Sherr v. Northport-East N
In a message dated 12/29/2005 9:24:28 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The other
textbook, "The Bible in History and Literature," is published by the North
Carolina-based National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, a group
supported by a number of religi
In a message dated 12/12/2005 8:40:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does
that mean that it is illegitimate to base one's opposition tocapital
punishment on it (or, for that matter, a literal, albeitdebatable, reading
of "Thou Shalt Not Kill"), or, conversely, tha
One interesting side note to this argument I saw reported on Friday was the
way Establishment Clause caselaw helped erode political support for the ousted
school board members in Dover, Pennsylvania. As reported on PBS's NewsHour, many
Intelligent Design advocates there were actually motivat
But, conversely, are all those course at public universities titled "Greek
Mythology" (e.g., this
link) constitutionally impermissible?
Allen
In a message dated 11/22/2005 1:26:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmm --
would a course at a public university called "
In a message dated 9/1/2005 9:58:58 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This week, as Katrina has worn away at the levee walls in New Orleans, we
have the news that another assault on the wall of separation took place
yesterday, when Louisiana's Governor declared a Day
In a message dated 8/27/2005 10:11:26 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As to "inventing irrelevant hypotheticals," you are simply being
bombastic in the hopes, I suppose, of dodging the very real and very obvious
other sorts of judgments that can be justified just a
Understanding why the outcome of this Babylon 5 episode was a "disaster"
actually teaches an important point about the free exercise clause, I think.
Prof. Tushnet's analysis is almost purely utilitarian, noting that the outcome
was death either way. But, making the outcome the same either w
In a message dated 8/11/2005 8:49:55 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone have a good idea on this query from my
librarian:
Doug, are you aware of any movies dealing
with separation of church and state? I can't think of
anything but Inherit the W
In a message dated 5/3/2005 11:05:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The reason I find Eugene's hypo uninteresting is the unreality of it. Of course, I say this despite having seen many things I once thought from the realm of fantasy come to pass.
I wouldn't be so sure. Bec
I think the more interesting cases are not the ones involving physical and sexual abuse about which I would hope there's some reasonable consensus against religious exemption. The more interesting cases are the ones where the rights are more evenly matched because they ask harder questions about wh
In a message dated 1/30/2005 12:45:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
States have powers not rights.
In response, I'll quote a paragraph written by our list custodian, Eugene Volokh, on the subject of states' rights in an email from November 20, 2002, I saved from the FIREAR
Sorry for butting in, but I think the conflicting language in the Declaration of Independence may come from conflicts among its writers/editors. I recall seeing Walter Isaacson on TV several times during his book tour for "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" telling a story about it. Here's one ve
In a message dated 12/11/2004 2:44:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wouldn't all of this "balancing" have to be prediated on showing that Jefferson and (sometimes) Madison are representative of the founders' views? This is not at all obvious, especially on the question of r
In a message dated 12/10/2004 1:16:46 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I looked over each of these assignments and I am dumbfounded by the assertion that these assignments inculcate belief. They seem well crafted to guide a student into studying the tenets of, and learning abo
In a message dated 12/6/2004 12:21:11 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In very brief: Under the "government speech" doctrine, a state may require its teachers, in their official capacities (i.e., while teaching), to hue to the state's prescribed curriculum. This is the majori
In a message dated 11/5/2004 7:58:41 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anonymous students left pamphlets calling on students to accept Jesus on the
desks of Jewish public high school students and no other students. I have
been asked whether a school could ban religiously targete
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