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Does Prop 8 campaign finance disclosure suit have legs?

Posted on January 09, 2009
World Magazine reports: I?m no lawyer but I have to admit, when I first saw that the Alliance Defense Fund had filed a class-action suit on behalf of Prop 8 donors that sought to have a campaign finance law declared unconstitutional, I was skeptical...

Lawsuit seeks safeguards from ?gay? harassment

Posted on January 09, 2009
WorldNetDaily reports: . . . “Putting the names and employers of the people who supported Proposition 8 on the Internet for anyone to see has caused serious problems,” said James Bopp Jr., the lead attorney for Prop. 8 supporters. “No one should worry about getting a death threat because of the way he or she votes [...

A Call for a New Legal Realism in International Law: The Need for Method

Posted on January 09, 2009
In this inaugural lecture for Professor Shaffer's Melvin C. Steen Professorship, he provides a typology and assessment of four varieties of international law scholarship: formalist, normative, theoretical and empirical. He shows why there is great need for empirical "law-in-action studies" of international law in a new legal realist vein...

Grounding Non-Muslim Ijtihad (independent legal reasoning)

Posted on January 09, 2009
In Islamic law, ijtihad, or independent legal reasoning, has been limited to Muslims only in classical scholarship. Prohibition of non-Muslim ijtihad, either express or implied, constricts the potential to harmonize Islamic law with other legal systems and even raises human rights concerns...

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Of Historiography and Constitutional Principle: Jefferson?s Reply to the Danbury Baptists

Posted on January 09, 2009
The article concludes that, because the goals of historical argument and legal argument are fundamentally different, this "incestuous" kind of relationship between historiography and constitutional principle is potentially destructive

A universal bar exam for all states and an expanded multistate?

Posted on January 09, 2009
Leigh Jones writes on the National Law Journal: The panel was one of dozens of presentations that are part of the five-day conference of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), the organization made up of about 160 of the country’s law schools...

Traditional marriage under attack in Wisconsin?again

Posted on January 09, 2009
One News Now: Another challenge to the Wisconsin marriage amendment is going to court. n the first lawsuit filed against the governor by University of Wisconsin professor William McConkey, the court ruled against him and upheld the traditional definition of marriage...

A circuit ripe for a remake: Vacancies loom in Federal Circuit, a vital IP law venue.

Posted on January 09, 2009
Pamela A. McClean writes on the National Law Journal: he fate of�high-stakes legal battles over intellectual property law is the prize for those in the early jockeying to fill looming vacancies for as many as half of the 12 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...

?Former Victory Fund executive director to serve as deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison?

Posted on January 09, 2009
GayPolitics.com reports: “The Advocate has reported that President-elect Barack Obama selected former Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund executive director Brian Bond to serve as the deputy director of the White House Office of the Public Liaison . ...

Atheism ads on buses spreads from London to Spain

Posted on January 09, 2009
CNA: “. . . The campaign now has some $250,000 in donations and has spread to other British cities, where some 600 buses carry ads that read, ?There?s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.?� On Monday 1000 ads will be posted on London?s subway network ...

Marriage Battle Rages Nationwide - Even in City Councils in Iowa

Posted on January 09, 2009
CWA carries this audio report: “The battle to defend the traditional definition of marriage is being fought in state legislatures and courts across the country. However, those battles are also coming to local city and county councils. Mike Mears, Director of State Legislative Relations for Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee brings us the [...

UK: Christian care home loses funding over homosexuality stance

Posted on January 09, 2009
Christian Today reports: Brighton & Hove City Council has pulled thousands of pounds worth of funding from a Christian care home because of its religious beliefs on homosexuality. The council withdrew �13,000 of funding when the care home refused the council?s request to ask the elderly Christian residents about their sexual orientation every three months ...

Two astute observations by Richard John Neuhaus: Tax exemptions for religious organizations and the naked public square

Posted on January 09, 2009
The CLS Blog carries this post that focuses on two astute observations made by Richard John Neuhaus in connection with current Religious Liberty debates.� The first focuses on assumptions underlying tax exemptions for religious organizations.� The second concerns the naked public square...

Montana as Judge Rules Again in Assisted Suicide case

Posted on January 09, 2009
LifeNews.com: “Montana officially became the third state to allow assisted suicide as a state judge ruled again on the issue. Helena District Judge Dorothy McCarter handed down her ruling [...]

Nancy Pelosi reiterates support for embryonic stem cell research

Posted on January 09, 2009
CNA: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has described herself as an ?ardent, practicing Catholic,? has again reiterated her support for funding embryonic stem cell research (ESCR). Her remarks were published January 4 in the International Herald Tribune, discussing Democratic proposals to implement funding legislation to overturn policies set by the Bush administration ...

Judge attacked by homosexual lobby garners massive support in Spain

Posted on January 09, 2009
CNA reports: “. . . Judge Fernando Ferrin Calamita was accused of illegally delaying a request for adoption by the [lesbian] couple for six months. He was sentenced to two years, three months and one day of unemployment or public office, plus a fine of $8,000 payable to the plaintiffs...

India Supreme Court Orders Protection for Orissa Christians

Posted on January 09, 2009
The Christian Post: “India?s Supreme Court ordered this week the state government of Orissa to protect the tens of thousands of Christians being targeted by Hindu extremists in the worst sectarian violence since the country?s independence from Britain...

MIM: Prosecute obscenity, don?t bailout pornographers

Posted on January 09, 2009
In response to a call for a federal subsidy by Larry Flynt,� Morality in Media has issued a press release on the Christian Newswire that concludes: . . . Despite the propaganda about obscenity crimes being “victimless,” there are tremendous social costs associated with the production, distribution and consumption of hardcore pornography...

California: ?Selma business owners protest new ?entertainment? shop?

Posted on January 09, 2009
The Selma Enterprise: he Web site for his business . . . features pictures of scantily clad women who dance for hire. The Web site also lists the prices to hire the dancers, which range from $120 for one female for one hour, to $200 for three females for one hour, depending on wherever a customer [...

Texas AG leads 50-state coalition in defense of prayer, presidential oath of office

Posted on January 09, 2009
Texas AG Greg Abbott has issued this press release that begins: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and a bipartisan coalition of Attorneys General representing all fifty states and the U.S. Virgin Islands today took legal action to defend the constitutionality of prayer during President-elect Barack Obama?s Presidential Inauguration...

Ocean Grove and Why No Religious Case for ?Gay Marriage?

Posted on January 09, 2009
George Berkin writes on NJ.com: . . . But why is Miller so anxious to present a “Bible” argument? Isn’t just a secular argument good enough? First, a religious argument, even a false one, if believed, always has a power that a secular argument just doesn’t carry...

6th Circuit Judge: Rationality of societal revulsion at downloading child porn compared to 13th century witchcraft trials

Posted on January 09, 2009
"Our 'social revulsion' against these 'misfits' downloading these images is perhaps somewhat more rational than the thousands of witchcraft trials and burnings conducted in Europe and here from the Thirteenth . . . Centuries, but it borders on the same thing...

Pagan Europe is headed for Muslim future, says Czech Cardinal

Posted on January 09, 2009
Aktualne.centrum.cz reports: . . . Demographically dying out, Cardinal Vlk expects Europe to become markedly more Muslim in the 21st century because of the low fertility of Europeans the majority of whom are non-believers. “Muslims in Europe have much more children than Christian families...

Congress certifies Obama as next President

Posted on January 09, 2009
The Boston Globe reports: “Barack Obama is officially the next president of the United States, Congress declared yesterday in fulfilling its centuries-old constitutional duty to certify and tally the electoral college vote from each state . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

Home-school protections in Idaho?s plans

Posted on January 09, 2009
One News Now: “. . . language in the Idaho bill being developed expressly declares that “children privately instructed at home by their parent or guardian” are in compliance with the state’s compulsory attendance law. It also clearly identifies home education as a defense against charges of “educational neglect” under Idaho’s Child Protection Act ...

Witness again Vindicates Phill Kline: Case against Tiller to Continue

Posted on January 09, 2009
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “A motion to suppress evidence against notorious late-term abortionist George Tiller suffered a�severe blow Wednesday thanks to testimony that unexpectedly supported Phill Kline, the former Kansas attorney general who had procured key evidence against Tiller ...

UK: Mum has healthy baby after doctors advised her to abort

Posted on January 09, 2009
The Christian Institute reports: A couple who went against medical opinion and twice refused an abortion before switching hospitals are now the proud parents of a healthy baby boy. Even though doctors gave up on baby Kai?s chances of survival and advised he be aborted, his parents never gave up on him...

Obama?s spokesman: Don?t Ask Don?t Tell will go

Posted on January 09, 2009
The HRC Backstory Blog reports that Obam press secretary Robert Gibbs has indicated that the new administration will get rid of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” in the military. Visit Site » Share This

ADF: Indiana Marriage Amendment to be introduced Monday

Posted on January 09, 2009
Monday . . . Indiana legislators will announce introduction of a proposed amendment to the state constitution that will protect marriage as the union of one man and one woman . . .

Burris?s Appointment Backed by Illinois Court

Posted on January 09, 2009
The Wall Street Journal: The Illinois Supreme Court refused to force Secretary of State Jesse White to sign a document relating to Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s appointee to the U.S. Senate, saying that the appointment was legally valid without his signature...

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