Religion & Law

First signed opinion of Supreme Court term coming Monday

Posted on November 12, 2010
The Blog of LegalTimes: "The Supreme Court today let it be known that it will hand down the first signed opinion of its term on Monday. As is the custom, the Court did not announce which case it will hand down first, even though other high courts like California's do so routinely, and others like Canada's sometimes give the press an advance peek...

Law Review: The Road Not Taken: The EU as a Global Human Rights Actor

Posted on November 12, 2010
Grainne De Burca, The Road Not Taken: The EU as a Global Human Rights Actor (November 8, 2010). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1705690 "This paper challenges the traditional account of the EU?s engagement with human rights. The classic narrative begins with the silence of the EEC Treaty in 1957 and depicts a gradual engagement with human rights over the decades, culminating in the establishment of a substantial EU human rights regime in recent years...

Law Review: Comparative Law in the Reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights

Posted on November 12, 2010
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Comparative Law in the Reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights (November 4, 2010). University College Dublin Law Review, Vol. 10, pp. 109-140, 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1703120 "This paper explores how comparative research is done and applied by the European Court of Human Rights...

Law Review: The Use of International Law in U.S. Constitutional Adjudication

Posted on November 12, 2010
Rex D. Glensy, The Use of International Law in U.S. Constitutional Adjudication (August 15, 2010). Emory International Law Review, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1701508 "This Article seeks to untangle part of the debate concerning the use of international law as persuasive authority within the context of U...

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The case for anonymous juries

Posted on November 12, 2010
Steve Cohen writing in City Journal: "For judges hearing high-profile cases, this lack of juror anonymity can present serious problems. The most obvious is outright jury tampering. Though that isn?t common, more than a few instances have been uncovered ...

VA: Warren school board proceeding with religious exemption regulation

Posted on November 12, 2010
The Northern Virginia Daily: "After months of debate, the Warren County School Board on Thursday entered a first reading of an amended religious exemption regulation to gain release for compulsory school attendance . . . Homeschooling advocates and parents had consistently protested the required letter explaining religious beliefs, saying it was potentially restrictive to religious freedoms...

Top Malaysian court fails to rule on child conversion

Posted on November 12, 2010
The Straits Times: "Malaysia's top court on Friday sidestepped a ruling on whether children can be converted to Islam by one parent, a lawyer said, in a case closely watched by the nation's non-Muslim minorities."

NM school board committee affirms contraception distribution policy

Posted on November 12, 2010
Medical News Today: "An Albuquerque, N.M., Public Schools committee voted in favor of a revised policy that will allow contraception to be dispensed at school-based clinics by clinic staff who are not APS employees, the Albuquerque Journal reports."

CA: Temecula mosque hearing delayed

Posted on November 12, 2010
The Valley News: "A Temecula Planning Commission hearing to review plans for a proposed 25,000-square-foot mosque -- which is being challenged over its size and symbolism -- has been delayed because of a misplaced sign, it was reported today."

Egyptian held for promoting religious conversion at Navi Mumbai port

Posted on November 12, 2010
Deccan Herald: "An Egyptian national was today arrested for allegedly distributing pamphlets and booklets at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) here, inviting people to convert to Islam, police said."

Australia: MPs set to debate same-sex ?marriage? law, protection for religious ministers

Posted on November 12, 2010
The Age: "Federal Labor member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby has called for any same-sex marriage legislation to provide protection for religious ministers so they are not forced to perform those marriages. As parliament prepares to debate a Greens motion on same-sex marriage next week, Mr Danby said he agreed with Labor Right powerbroker Mark Arbib that change was coming...

German gov, orthodox Jews disagree over educational funds

Posted on November 12, 2010
Taiwan News (AP): "Germany's orthodox Jewish community is accusing the government of discrimination for not funding the orthodox Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin while providing money to the country's only other seminary, which is more liberal."

Va. Muslim denied service over religious head scarf

Posted on November 12, 2010
Bradenton.com (PRNewswire): "A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization is calling on a Virginia-based convenience store chain to offer an apology to a Muslim woman who was allegedly denied service at one of the chain's stores in that state because she wore an Islamic head scarf, or hijab...

Radical Muslim cleric sentenced to life in Lebanon

Posted on November 12, 2010
Telegraph: "Omar Bakri Mohammed, known as the 'Tottenham Ayatollah', was on the run after a court in Beirut found him guilty of funding al-Qaeda and starting a militant group to weaken the Lebanese government."

Jehovah?s Witnesses seek new building property in Brooklyn, OH

Posted on November 12, 2010
Sun News: "The request for the preliminary site plan was approved by the planning commission and it will now move on to be presented to city council, said John Patta, council representative for the planning commission."

Christians in Iraq living in fear of ?pogrom? after bomb attacks

Posted on November 12, 2010
Guardian: "The attacks came nine days after al-Qaida stormed one of Baghdad's most prominent cathedrals, slaughtering more than 40 worshippers who had just arrived for mass and horrifying a city that is no stranger to terrible acts of violence. The ramifications have been enormous...

Defenders of marriage see golden opportunity in Republican takeover of Minn. Legislature

Posted on November 12, 2010
TriValleyCentral.com (AP): "Tom Prichard, president of the Minnesota Family Council, says his group will push for a statewide vote in 2012 to ban gay marriage and civil unions in Minnesota?s Constitution. Previous efforts to do so in 2004, 2005 and 2006 met a firewall in the strongly Democratic state Senate, but that liberal majority crumbled Nov...

Bush: ?The Wolves of Washington? and the Roberts/Miers/Alito Nominations

Posted on November 10, 2010
Jan Crawford writing at CBS: "In his new book 'Decision Points,' former President George W. Bush offers some fascinating tidbits about what could be his most lasting legacy: the nominations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court...

UN condemns attack on Iraqi Christians

Posted on November 10, 2010
Washington Post: "The U.N. Security Council said Wednesday that it's appalled by the latest terrorist attacks on Iraqi Christians, calling them a blow against religious diversity and democracy."

Police raid Australian abortion mill after 58 patients contract Hepatitis C

Posted on November 10, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Police have raided an abortion mill in Melbourne Australia linked to an anaesthetist alleged to have infected patients with hepatitis C. Anaesthetist Dr. James Latham Peters was suspended in February after numerous woman were found to have been infected with hepatitis C after being treated by Peters in a suburban Melbourne abortion facility...

Convicted felon abortionists keep embattled NJ abortion empire running

Posted on November 10, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Even after authorities unveiled a New Jersey abortionist's illegal interstate abortion scheme, several of his locations continue to operate with the help of abortionists sporting considerable criminal and malpractice records, including one who is a convicted sex offender, according to a new report by Operation Rescue...

Violent Muslim occupation of church did not violate law against offending religious sentiments: Spanish judge

Posted on November 10, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "According to Europa Press, the judge occupying the seat of the Fourth Court of Instruction of Cordoba ruled that the incursion into the cathedral, which culminated in an assault on several guards and a policeman, was merely a 'public disorder' and was not intended to offend anyone's religious sentiments...

Fetus in jar: Bush says he didn?t forsee a ?national dialogue?

Posted on November 10, 2010
ABC: "When George W. Bush revealed on national television that he had witnessed a 'little brother or sister' when his mother miscarried and carried a fetus in a jar to the hospital, online media and their followers were shocked . . ."

Kelly Ayotte win shifts feminism to pro-life side in Senate

Posted on November 10, 2010
LifeNews: "[O]ne of the most exciting victories was New Hampshire?s Kelly Ayotte. She will fill a major void is the U.S. Senate as it no longer lacks a woman?s pro-life voice. The likes of Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein cannot tell her she doesn?t speak for women...

Late-term abortion practitioner moving to Iowa, Maryland, Indiana

Posted on November 10, 2010
LifeNews: "Late-term abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart has opened up about his moving his abortion business to three new states in a new interview following a LifeNews.com report revealing he?s expanding his business."

New Jersey defunds Planned Parenthood

Posted on November 10, 2010
National Catholic Register: "New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie?s veto of a bill that included funding for Planned Parenthood has withstood a challenge from Democrats in the state senate. The veto deprived the state?s leading abortion provider of money that is essential to its continued operation...

German Family Minister attacks feminism in interview

Posted on November 10, 2010
Spiegel: "In a SPIEGEL interview, German Family Minister Kristina Schröder, 33, of the conservative Christian Democrats, discusses the shortcomings of feminism, how she plans to help disadvantaged schoolboys and why women don't want wimps as partners ...

Washington Examiner: Senate GOP should filibuster if Kirk is delayed

Posted on November 10, 2010
Washington Examiner: "Senator-elect Mark Kirk, R-Ill., is one of three senators elected Nov. 2 to fill seats vacated by individuals who joined the Obama administration. Illinois law requires that Kirk assume his office immediately following the election, but unnamed state officials say Kirk can't be sworn in until Nov...

Candidate runs to show abortions

Posted on November 10, 2010
Congress.org: "Anti-abortion activists are hoping to show aborted fetuses during the Super Bowl. The small group behind the effort may be far from raising the millions required to buy an ad spot, but activist Missy Smith made a significant step towards that goal this election cycle...

UK: Why is a school celebrating that Islamophobic monster Richard the Lionheart?

Posted on November 10, 2010
[T]he primary difference between an open society and a totalitarian one is that the former respects the parent?s right to morally form their children, while the latter believes the state?s moral viewpoint should be imposed even in the home . . .

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