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Comments: Holding Clergy Accountable: Maryland Should Require Clergy To Report Suspected Child Abuse, Caroline E. Law Miller Jan 2005

Comments: Holding Clergy Accountable: Maryland Should Require Clergy To Report Suspected Child Abuse, Caroline E. Law Miller

University of Baltimore Law Review

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A Property Rights Approach To Sacred Sites Cases: Asserting A Place For Indians As Nonowners, Kristen A. Carpenter Jan 2005

A Property Rights Approach To Sacred Sites Cases: Asserting A Place For Indians As Nonowners, Kristen A. Carpenter

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Although the Free Exercise Clause prohibits governmental interference with religion, American Indians have been unsuccessful in challenging government actions that harm tribal sacred sites located on federal public lands. The First Amendment dimensions of these cases have been well studied by scholars, but this Article contends that it is also important to analyze them through a property law lens. Indeed, the Supreme Court has treated the federal government's ownership of public lands as a basis for denying Indian religious freedoms claims. This Article contends that such holdings rely on an "ownership model" of property law wherein the rights of the …

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Sacred Visions Of Law, Robert Tsai Jan 2005

Sacred Visions Of Law, Robert Tsai

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Around the time of the Bicentennial Celebration of the U.S. Constitution's framing, Professor Sanford Levinson called upon Americans to renew our constitutional faith. This article answers the call by examining how two legal symbols - Marbury v. Madison and Brown v. Board of Education - have been used by jurists over the years to tend the American community of faith. Blending constitutional theory and the study of religious form, the article argues that the decisions have become increasingly linked in the legal imagination even as they have come to signify very different sacred visions of law. One might think that …

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Review, Law And Religion In Post-Communist Europe & Laws On Religion And The State In Post-Communist Europe, Mark Weston Janis Jan 2005

Review, Law And Religion In Post-Communist Europe & Laws On Religion And The State In Post-Communist Europe, Mark Weston Janis

Faculty Articles and Papers

Reviewing Law and Religion in Post-Communist Europe. Edited by Silvio Ferrari, W. Cole Durham, Jr. and Elizabeth A. Sewell. Law and Religion Studies 1. Peeters 2003 and Laws on Religion and the State in Post-Communist Europe. Edited by W. Cole Durham, Jr. and Silvio Ferrari. Law and Religion Studies 2. Peeters 2004.

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Spiritual Custody: Relational Rights And Constitutional Commitments, Jeffrey Shulman Jan 2005

Spiritual Custody: Relational Rights And Constitutional Commitments, Jeffrey Shulman

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Patricia and David Zummo were married on December 17, 1978. When they divorced ten years later, the Zummos were unable to come to agreement about the religious upbringing of their three children. Prior to their marriage, Patricia and David had agreed that they would raise their children in the Jewish faith, and while they were married, "the Zummo family participated fully in the life of the Jewish faith and community." But after the divorce David wanted to take the children to Roman Catholic services as he saw fit, and he refused to arrange for the children's attendance at Hebrew School …

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Eagle Feathers And Equality: Lessons On Religious Exceptions From The Native American Experience, Kevin J. Worthen Jan 2005

Eagle Feathers And Equality: Lessons On Religious Exceptions From The Native American Experience, Kevin J. Worthen

University of Colorado Law Review

The legality and propriety of exempting religiously motivated conduct from otherwise applicable legal norms is the subject of ongoing scholarly, judicial, and legislative debate. The issue is particularly thorny when it arises in a legal system deeply committed to the concept of equality. The Eagle Protection Act, which exempts Native Americans religious practitioners who are members offederally recognized tribes from its general prohibition on the taking and use of bald and golden eagle feathers, provides an interesting context in which to examine that debate. Not only does the Act exempt religiously motivated conduct from the otherwise applicable norms, it prefers …

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How Traditional And Minority Religions Fare In The Courts: Empirical Evidence From Religious Liberty Cases, Gregory C. Sisk Jan 2005

How Traditional And Minority Religions Fare In The Courts: Empirical Evidence From Religious Liberty Cases, Gregory C. Sisk

University of Colorado Law Review

There is an enduring legal myth that members of minority religious groups face a decidedly uphill battle in securing accommodation for or even tolerance of unconventional religious practices, expression, or values from the courts. According to conventional wisdom, traditional Christian believers may anticipate a more hospitable welcome from the judiciary when asserting claims of conscience or religious liberty. However based upon an empirical study of religious liberty decisions in the federal courts, the proposition that minority religions are less successful with their claims was found to be without empirical support, at least in the modern era and in the lower …

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Changing Minds: Proselytism, Freedom, And The First Amendment, Richard W. Garnett Jan 2005

Changing Minds: Proselytism, Freedom, And The First Amendment, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

Proselytism is, as Paul Griffiths has observed, a topic enjoying renewed attention in recent years. What's more, the practice, aims, and effects of proselytism are increasingly framed not merely in terms of piety and zeal; they are seen as matters of geopolitical, cultural, and national-security significance as well. Indeed, it is fair to say that one of today's more pressing challenges is the conceptual and practical tangle of religious liberty, free expression, cultural integrity, and political stability. This essay is an effort to unravel that tangle by drawing on the religious-freedom-related work and teaching of the late Pope John Paul …

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Constitutional Conversations And New Religious Movements: A Comparative Case Study, Leigh H. Greenhaw, Michael H. Koby Jan 2005

Constitutional Conversations And New Religious Movements: A Comparative Case Study, Leigh H. Greenhaw, Michael H. Koby

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Using the metaphor of a constitutional conversation to compare the treatment of a relatively new and unpopular religion by the legal systems of the United States, Russia, and Spain, this Article examines the methodology by which laws affecting religion are made and enforced. It uses as a case study the interaction of the Jehovah's Witnesses with the legal system of the United States, comparing it with more recent interactions in Russia and Spain. The Authors argue that while the experience in the United States was profoundly influenced by a common-law methodology, the experience in two civil-law countries, Russia and Spain, …

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Rites And Rights In Afghanistan: The Hazara And The 2004 Constitution, Justin Deystone Jan 2005

Rites And Rights In Afghanistan: The Hazara And The 2004 Constitution, Justin Deystone

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Eagle Feathers And Equality: Lessons On Religious Exceptions From The Native American Experience, Kevin J. Worthen Jan 2005

Eagle Feathers And Equality: Lessons On Religious Exceptions From The Native American Experience, Kevin J. Worthen

Faculty Scholarship

The legality and propriety of exempting religiously motivated conduct from otherwise applicable legal norms is the subject of ongoing scholarly, judicial, and legislative debate. The issue is particularly thorny when it arises in a legal system deeply committed to the concept of equality. The Eagle Protection Act, which exempts Native Americans religious practitioners who are members of federally recognized tribes from its general prohibition on the taking and use of bald and golden eagle feathers, provides an interesting context in which to examine that debate. Not only does the Act exempt religiously motivated conduct from the otherwise applicable norms, it …

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The Permissible Scope Of Legal Limitations On The Freedom Of Religion Or Belief In The United States, Frederick Mark Gedicks Jan 2005

The Permissible Scope Of Legal Limitations On The Freedom Of Religion Or Belief In The United States, Frederick Mark Gedicks

Faculty Scholarship

This article summarizes the law of legal limitations on religious freedom in the UnitedStates, including sources and hierarchies of applicable law, structural limitations on religious freedom, grounds for limiting such freedom, an analytical description oflimitations, and background influences on limitations law, and applies this law to hypothetical situations.

Federal judicial decisions interpreting the Religion Clauses are the principal source oflimitations law in the United States. RLUIPA and RFRA, federal anti-discrimination statutes, and executive orders are other important sources of religious freedom law. State constitutions, statutes, and regulations are important sources law when federal sources are absent or inapplicable. International human …

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Considering Individual Religious Freedoms Under Tribal Constitutional Law, Kristen A. Carpenter Jan 2005

Considering Individual Religious Freedoms Under Tribal Constitutional Law, Kristen A. Carpenter

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As American Indian nations revitalize their legal systems, there is renewed interest in "tribal law," that is, the law of each of the Indian nations. Today, there is a particular focus on the subject of "individual rights" under tribal law. In tribal contexts, people are highly interested in the legal institutions and rules that govern their lives, especially as many tribal communities are experiencing a period of great political, social, and economic change. At the national level, the Supreme Court repeatedly expresses concern about whether individuals, especially non-Indians, will be treated fairly in tribal court. For scholars, individual rights under …

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Toward Reconciliation In The Middle East: A Framework For Christian-Muslim Dialogue Using Natural Law Tradition, Russell Powell Jan 2005

Toward Reconciliation In The Middle East: A Framework For Christian-Muslim Dialogue Using Natural Law Tradition, Russell Powell

Faculty Articles

In this paper, Professor Powell argues that the thinking of Bernard Lonergan in light of the natural law insights of St. Thomas Aquinas, Ali Ezzati and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im provides a framework for Christian-Muslim dialogue. Lonergan's transcendental method moves from the individual subject to universal insights rather than presuming to deduce universals a priori, without regard for history, culture and individual experience. Professor Powell asserts that the most fruitful starting place for meaningful dialogue is to address questions of human rights and social justice using natural law theory, rather than focusing on theological concerns. If Muslims and Christians mutually acknowledge …

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Is There A "Religious Question" Doctrine?: Judicial Authority To Examine Religious Practices And Beliefs, Jared Goldstein Jan 2005

Is There A "Religious Question" Doctrine?: Judicial Authority To Examine Religious Practices And Beliefs, Jared Goldstein

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Religious Freedom In Philadelphia, Philip A. Hamburger Jan 2005

Religious Freedom In Philadelphia, Philip A. Hamburger

Faculty Scholarship

Some controversies seem particularly significant for the development of constitutional rights. For the freedom from an establishment of religion, the most famous early debate occurred in Virginia in the mid-1780s. For the more immediate freedom of religion, however – the freedom from penalty or constraint on religion – the central historical debate is less familiar. It was in some respects merely a local quarrel, which embroiled Quakers and Revolutionaries in Philadelphia during a few tense weeks in 1775. Nonetheless, it was a revealing moment in the development of American religious liberty. At a time when Americans were struggling for equality …

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The Scopes Trope, Jay D. Wexler Jan 2005

The Scopes Trope, Jay D. Wexler

Faculty Scholarship

In his book, Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in America, journalist Larry Witham introduces the reader to the various characters involved in the ongoing controversy over evolution and creationism. His account is subtle and nuanced, and he demonstrates that the controversy is more complicated than many believe. Far from caricatures of godless scientists seeking to discard religion in thedustbin of history and reactionary religious fundamentalists decrying Darwinism as the downfall of mankind, Witham gives us the real stories of real people who dwell in shades far more gray than usually recognized. This book review builds upon Witham's …

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Religious Organizations And Free Exercise: The Surprising Lessons Of Smith, Kathleen A. Brady Dec 2004

Religious Organizations And Free Exercise: The Surprising Lessons Of Smith, Kathleen A. Brady

BYU Law Review

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"Omalous" Autonomy, Perry Dane Dec 2004

"Omalous" Autonomy, Perry Dane

BYU Law Review

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Thoughts On Smith And Religious-Group Autonomy, Laura S. Underkuffler Dec 2004

Thoughts On Smith And Religious-Group Autonomy, Laura S. Underkuffler

BYU Law Review

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Continuing The Lord's Work And Healing His People: A Reply To Professors Lupu And Tuttle, Mark E. Chopko Dec 2004

Continuing The Lord's Work And Healing His People: A Reply To Professors Lupu And Tuttle, Mark E. Chopko

BYU Law Review

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Separation, Neutrality, And Clergy Liability For Sexual Misconduct, William P. Marshall Dec 2004

Separation, Neutrality, And Clergy Liability For Sexual Misconduct, William P. Marshall

BYU Law Review

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An Itty· Bitty Immunity And Its Consequences For The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter·Day Saints: A Response To Professors Lupu And Tuttle, Cheryl B. Preston Dec 2004

An Itty· Bitty Immunity And Its Consequences For The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter·Day Saints: A Response To Professors Lupu And Tuttle, Cheryl B. Preston

BYU Law Review

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Sexual Misconduct And Ecclesiastical Immunity, Ira C. Lupu, Robert W. Tuttle Dec 2004

Sexual Misconduct And Ecclesiastical Immunity, Ira C. Lupu, Robert W. Tuttle

BYU Law Review

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David B. Heard Re: Permanent Review Board And Judge Anna Martinez, Hall & Monagle, Llc Nov 2004

David B. Heard Re: Permanent Review Board And Judge Anna Martinez, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Records related to Judge Anna Martinez

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The Iceberg Of Religious Freedom: Subsurface Levels Of Nonestablishment Discourse, Steven Douglas Smith Nov 2004

The Iceberg Of Religious Freedom: Subsurface Levels Of Nonestablishment Discourse, Steven Douglas Smith

University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series

This article discusses three levels of disagreement in establishment clause discourse– or what may be called the “lawyerly,” the “constitutive” (or “culture wars”), and the “philosophical” (or perhaps the “theological”) levels. Disagreement at the first of these levels is everywhere apparent in the way lawyers and justices and scholars write and argue; disagreement at the second level is somewhat less obtrusive but still easily discernible; disagreement at the third level is almost wholly beneath the surface. The manifest indeterminacy of lawyerly arguments suggests that in this area, premises are more likely to be derived from favored conclusions, not the other …

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Rules Of The Game: The "Play In The Joints" Between The Religion Clauses, Sharon Keller Nov 2004

Rules Of The Game: The "Play In The Joints" Between The Religion Clauses, Sharon Keller

ExpressO

Locke v. Davey is an exemplar of the new generation of Establishment clause cases that, particularly in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, have written into law a safe harbor, private choice, for governmental benefits that find their way into the coffers of religious institutions in amounts that are neither incidental nor trivial. In Locke the options presented in the private choice arguably infringed upon Free Exercise rights-- the dilemma that gives rise to the title of this article. Over the vigorous dissent of Justice Scalia, the Locke Court’s analysis of the permissibility of the conditioned benefit was based upon the argument that …

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Timeline Of Fr. Clive Lynn, Hall & Monagle, Llc Nov 2004

Timeline Of Fr. Clive Lynn, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Timelines

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Letter From David B. Heard To Attorney Luis G. Stelzner [Draft?], Hall & Monagle, Llc Nov 2004

Letter From David B. Heard To Attorney Luis G. Stelzner [Draft?], Hall & Monagle, Llc

Records related to Judge Anna Martinez

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Letter From David B. Heard To Attorney Luis G. Stelzner: Recieved, Hall & Monagle, Llc Nov 2004

Letter From David B. Heard To Attorney Luis G. Stelzner: Recieved, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Records related to Judge Anna Martinez

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