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2013

Richard W Garnett

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Rick Garnett Quoted In Washington Post Article "Court Confronts Religious Rights Of Corporations", Richard Garnett Nov 2013

Rick Garnett Quoted In Washington Post Article "Court Confronts Religious Rights Of Corporations", Richard Garnett

Richard W Garnett

Rick Garnett quoted in Washington Post article "Court Confronts Religious Rights of Corporations" by ADAM LIPTAK. “This is a perfect storm,” said Richard Garnett, a law professor at Notre Dame, adding that it is also a worrisome one. “Debates about campaign finance in Citizens United and abortion and Obamacare,” he said, “could distort the court’s analysis of religious freedom.”


Rick Garnett Quoted In Ncr Article "Supreme Court Takes Up Contraceptive Mandate, Will Rule On Religious Rights Of Corporations", Richard Garnett Nov 2013

Rick Garnett Quoted In Ncr Article "Supreme Court Takes Up Contraceptive Mandate, Will Rule On Religious Rights Of Corporations", Richard Garnett

Richard W Garnett

Rick Garnett quoted in NCR article by David Gibson "Supreme Court takes up contraceptive mandate, will rule on religious rights of corporations" on November 26, 2013. Given the polemics, Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett said he worries "that what I regard as accidental aspects of the case -- the Citizens United debate, the 'war on women' rhetoric from the last election, the controversies about (health care reform) -- will distract the court from the more specific legal question presented, which has to do, again, with the interpretation of a particular, and an important, federal statute."


Garnett On The Constitutionality Of Legislative Prayer (Audio), Richard W. Garnett Nov 2013

Garnett On The Constitutionality Of Legislative Prayer (Audio), Richard W. Garnett

Richard W Garnett

Bloomberg Law Podcast Host June Grasso examines the major legal issues affecting business. Professor Richard Garnett of Notre Dame Law School discusses an upcoming Supreme Court case on whether prayer at the start of town meetings violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He talks with June Grasso on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."


Judicial Review, Local Values, And Pluralism, Richard W. Garnett Nov 2013

Judicial Review, Local Values, And Pluralism, Richard W. Garnett

Richard W Garnett

At the Federalist Society's 2008 National Student Symposium, a panel of scholars was asked to consider the question, does pervasive judicial review threaten to destroy local identity by homogenizing community norms? The answer to this question is yes, pervasive judicial review certainly does threaten local identity, because such review can homogenize[e] community norms, either by dragging them into conformity with national, constitutional standards or (more controversially) by subordinating them to the reviewers' own commitments. It is important to recall, however, that while it is true that an important feature of our federalism is local variation in laws and values, it …