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Smith, "Neutrality Of Reasons," And The Search For Animating Principles, Gerard V. Bradley Jan 2017

Smith, "Neutrality Of Reasons," And The Search For Animating Principles, Gerard V. Bradley

Journal Articles

The Distinctiveness of Religion in American Law: Rethinking Religion Clause Jurisprudence by Kathleen Brady

Justice Antonin Scalia’s death stirred a gratifying amount of praise for his life’s work. Among the rose petals tossed his way were, however, some thorns, including renewed criticism of his opinion in Employment Division v. Smith. The Smith Court spent most of its time arguing against a particular interpretation of the Free Exercise Clause, one that authorized judges to grant exemptions to believers burdened by general laws. But without quite identifying it as such, and without argument based in historical source material, the Court came …


Recent Applications Of The Supreme Court's Hands-Off Approach To Religious Doctrine: From Hosanna-Tabor And Holt To Hobby Lobby And Zubik, Samuel J. Levine Jan 2017

Recent Applications Of The Supreme Court's Hands-Off Approach To Religious Doctrine: From Hosanna-Tabor And Holt To Hobby Lobby And Zubik, Samuel J. Levine

Scholarly Works

In each of the past four terms, the United States Supreme Court has decided a case with important implications for the interpretation and application of the Religion Clauses of the United States Constitution: Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & Sch. v. EEOC, Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, Inc., Holt v. Hobbs, and, most recently, Zubik v. Burwell. Although the Court’s decisions in these cases addressed—and seemed to resolve—a number of questions central to Free Exercise and Establishment Clause jurisprudence, including recognition of the “ministerial exception” and religious rights of a corporate entity, the decisions left a number of questions unanswered, such as …


To Repeal Or Not Repeal: The Johnson Amendment, Mark Goldfeder, Michelle K. Terry Jan 2017

To Repeal Or Not Repeal: The Johnson Amendment, Mark Goldfeder, Michelle K. Terry

Scholarly Works

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Unlawful Assembly As Social Control, John D. Inazu Jan 2017

Unlawful Assembly As Social Control, John D. Inazu

Scholarship@WashULaw

Recent public protests from Occupy to Ferguson have highlighted anew the offense of unlawful assembly. This Article advances the simple but important thesis that contemporary approaches to unlawful assembly cede too much discretion to law enforcement. Too many unlawful assembly provisions neglect important elements of earlier statutory formulations. They also ignore constitutional principles meant to constrain the scope and extent of discretionary enforcement of social control by public authorities. In doing so, they fall short of the aspirations of the First Amendment — stifling dissent, muting expression, and ultimately weakening the democratic experiment. We can do better. We can start …


Peyote And Ghouls In The Night: Justice Scalia's Religion Clause Minimalism, John D. Inazu Jan 2017

Peyote And Ghouls In The Night: Justice Scalia's Religion Clause Minimalism, John D. Inazu

Scholarship@WashULaw

The late Justice Antonin Scalia held a minimalist view of the religion clauses: the Free Exercise Clause does not protect against neutral laws of general applicability, and the Establishment Clause prohibits neither longstanding traditional practices nor legislative acts with a plausible secular purpose. In both free exercise and establishment cases, Scalia resisted judicial second-guessing of legislative judgments unless he saw an explicit singling out of religious practice. Yet Scalia had an uneven influence on religion clause jurisprudence. When it came to the Free Exercise Clause, he played a pivotal role in shaping a doctrinal framework that has arguably created more …


Loving The Sinner: Evangelical Colleges And Their Lgb Students, Elizabeth J. Hubertz Jan 2017

Loving The Sinner: Evangelical Colleges And Their Lgb Students, Elizabeth J. Hubertz

Scholarship@WashULaw

In his Obergefell dissent, Chief Justice Robert wrote: “Hard questions arise when people of faith exercise religion in ways that may be seen to conflict with the new right to same-sex marriage.” This article looks at one of those hard questions - the relationship between evangelical colleges and their LGB students.

As religious institutions, evangelical colleges have authority to freely exercise their faith. They exercise this freedom by maintaining sexual conduct codes which prohibit homosexual practice or behavior by their students. Despite the existence of these codes, evangelical colleges have, and most likely always will have, sexual minority students. While …


Justice Scalia, The Establishment Clause, And Christian Privilege, Caroline Mala Corbin Dec 2016

Justice Scalia, The Establishment Clause, And Christian Privilege, Caroline Mala Corbin

Articles

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Social Media Accountability For Terrorist Propaganda, Alexander Tsesis Dec 2016

Social Media Accountability For Terrorist Propaganda, Alexander Tsesis

Faculty Publications & Other Works

Terrorist organizations have found social media websites to be invaluable for disseminating ideology, recruiting terrorists, and planning operations. National and international leaders have repeatedly pointed out the dangers terrorists pose to ordinary people and state institutions. In the United States, the federal Communications Decency Act's § 230 provides social networking websites with immunity against civil law suits. Litigants have therefore been unsuccessful in obtaining redress against internet companies who host or disseminate third-party terrorist content. This Article demonstrates that § 230 does not bar private parties from recovery if they can prove that a social media company had received complaints …


Separation Of Church And State Or Disparate Treatment? An Analysis Of The Religious Freedom And Discrimination Concerns In Trinity Lutheran Church Of Columbia, Inc. V. Pauley, Michael Petherick Dec 2016

Separation Of Church And State Or Disparate Treatment? An Analysis Of The Religious Freedom And Discrimination Concerns In Trinity Lutheran Church Of Columbia, Inc. V. Pauley, Michael Petherick

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

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The Terrorist's Veto: Why The First Amendment Must Protect Provocative Portrayals Of The Prophet Muhammad, Daniel Ortner Dec 2016

The Terrorist's Veto: Why The First Amendment Must Protect Provocative Portrayals Of The Prophet Muhammad, Daniel Ortner

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.


When Religious Belief Becomes Scientific Opinion: Burwell V. Hobby Lobby And The Unraveling Of Federal Rule 702, Meredith Rachel Mandell Dec 2016

When Religious Belief Becomes Scientific Opinion: Burwell V. Hobby Lobby And The Unraveling Of Federal Rule 702, Meredith Rachel Mandell

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.


Fighting Back Against Revenge Porn: A Legislative Solution, Alex Jacobs Dec 2016

Fighting Back Against Revenge Porn: A Legislative Solution, Alex Jacobs

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.


The Twilight Of Nonspeech, Bernard E. Gegan Dec 2016

The Twilight Of Nonspeech, Bernard E. Gegan

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Abortion Legislation And The Establishment Clause Dec 2016

Abortion Legislation And The Establishment Clause

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Church Tax Exemptions, William R. Consedine, Charles Whelan, S.J. Dec 2016

Church Tax Exemptions, William R. Consedine, Charles Whelan, S.J.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Obscenity: The Intractable Legal Problem, John Cornelius Hayes Dec 2016

Obscenity: The Intractable Legal Problem, John Cornelius Hayes

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Rwu First Amendment Blog: Jenna Hashway's Blog: Blocking Women's March From Key D.C. Sites Risks Infringing On First Amendment Rights 12-12-2016, Jenna Wims Hashway, Roger Williams University Dec 2016

Rwu First Amendment Blog: Jenna Hashway's Blog: Blocking Women's March From Key D.C. Sites Risks Infringing On First Amendment Rights 12-12-2016, Jenna Wims Hashway, Roger Williams University

Law School Blogs

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Defamation In Student Publications Dec 2016

Defamation In Student Publications

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Religious Freedom And The Church-State Relationship In Maryland, Kenneth L. Lasson Dec 2016

Religious Freedom And The Church-State Relationship In Maryland, Kenneth L. Lasson

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


The Functions Of The Constitution And The Establishment Clause, Richard O. Brooks Dec 2016

The Functions Of The Constitution And The Establishment Clause, Richard O. Brooks

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


An Unhurried Look At Obscenity, John M. Regan, C.M. Dec 2016

An Unhurried Look At Obscenity, John M. Regan, C.M.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Vatican Ii On Religious Freedom, Msgr. John P. Kleinz Dec 2016

Vatican Ii On Religious Freedom, Msgr. John P. Kleinz

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Right Of Privacy Dec 2016

Right Of Privacy

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


New York's "Minor" Obscenity Statute Held Constitutional Dec 2016

New York's "Minor" Obscenity Statute Held Constitutional

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Candor Or Shame? Defining Obscenity By Statute Dec 2016

Candor Or Shame? Defining Obscenity By Statute

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Sit-In Conduct Held Constitutionally Protected Dec 2016

Sit-In Conduct Held Constitutionally Protected

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Obscenity - A Re-Evaluation Dec 2016

Obscenity - A Re-Evaluation

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


New York Times V. Sullivan - A Reappraisal Dec 2016

New York Times V. Sullivan - A Reappraisal

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Newsroom: Rwu's News First Amendment Blog 12-07-2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law Dec 2016

Newsroom: Rwu's News First Amendment Blog 12-07-2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Free Speech Matters: The Roberts Court And The First Amendment, Joel M. Gora Dec 2016

Free Speech Matters: The Roberts Court And The First Amendment, Joel M. Gora

Journal of Law and Policy

This article contends that the Roberts Court, in the period from 2006 to 2016, arguably became the most speech-protective Supreme Court in memory. In a series of wide-ranging First Amendment decisions, the Court sounded and strengthened classic free speech themes and principles. Taken together, the Roberts Court’s decisions have left free speech rights much stronger than they were found.

Those themes and principles include a strong libertarian distrust of government regulation of speech and presumption in favor of letting people control speech, a consistent refusal to fashion new “non-speech” categories, a reluctance to “balance” free speech away against governmental interests, …