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Michael Stokes Paulsen: The legal consequences of the Freedom of Choice Act

Posted on February 03, 2009
While there is room for uncertainty or disagreement concerning a few issues, in the main, FOCA?s legal effects are clear. FOCA would invalidate nearly every state and federal law bearing on, or attempting to influence, the exercise of a choice of abortion...

Wanted: law school deans. Lots of them.

Posted on February 02, 2009
The National Law Journal: Even in this economy, there seems to still be a demand for one high-paying job ? law school dean. At least 27 law schools throughout the country are searching for new deans ? and many are having a tough time filling the position ...

Mormon church reports spending $180,000 on Proposition 8

Posted on February 02, 2009
LA Times: Top officials with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints filed reports Friday indicating that they donated more than $180,000 in in-kind contributions to Proposition 8, the November ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California ...

January 2009 Marriage Law Digest Online

Posted on February 02, 2009
The January 2009 Marriage Law Digest published by the Marriage Law Foundation and Institute for Marriage and Public Policy is now online. Visit Site » Share This

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Is Planned Parenthood backing off from FOCA for incremental approach?

Posted on February 02, 2009
Charmaine Yoest at Americans United for Life Action warns "Don?t believe it for a second. If your opponent gives up the frontal attack . . . you better start watching your flank . . ."

Wisconsin: Protesters argue over a possible abortion clinic opening

Posted on February 02, 2009
The Daily Cardinal: Hundreds of protestors on both sides of the abortion debate clashed Saturday in a heated dispute over the opening of a second-trimester abortion clinic at the Madison Surgery Center. Opponents of the clinic met at Library Mall and listened to speeches from pro-life activists like Matt Bowman, legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund [...

Australian PM: Time for a new world order

Posted on February 02, 2009
SMH.com.au: KEVIN RUDD has denounced the unfettered capitalism of the past three decades and called for a new era of ’social capitalism’ in which government intervention and regulation feature heavily . . . In an essay to be published next week, the Prime Minister is scathing of the neo-liberals who began refashioning the market system in the [...

Dubai court fines man for cross-dressing

Posted on February 02, 2009
Jerusalem Post: “An Indian national working in Dubai as an administrator with a property development company has been sentenced to a six-month suspended jail term and fined $2,722 for cross-dressing and wearing mascara in public, the Dubai newspaper Gulf News reported ...

Czech president attacks Al Gore?s climate campaign

Posted on February 02, 2009
AFP: Czech President Vaclav Klaus took aim at climate change campaigner Al Gore on Saturday in Davos in a frontal attack on the science of global warming. “I don’t think that there is any global warming,” said the 67-year-old liberal, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union...

Two children should be limit, says green guru

Posted on February 02, 2009
Times Online: COUPLES who have more than two children are being ?irresponsible? by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the government?s green adviser has warned. Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the government?s Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming ...

Study questions usefulness of animal-human embryos

Posted on February 02, 2009
"The animal eggs don't reprogram human DNA in the right way to generate stem cells, researchers report . . ."

Michigan considers excise tax on sexually oriented businesses

Posted on February 02, 2009
Lansing State Journal: “. . . Special-work permits would be required to work in adult clubs and a $3-per-visitor excise fee would be collected from club owners under legislation introduced by Democratic Sen. Ray Basham of Taylor . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

UN warns: Don?t defame religions, especially Islam

Posted on February 02, 2009
Nat Hentoff writes on the Washington Times: “. . . In its address to our new president, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (which has permanent status at the United Nations) made no mention of its own strategic skills that resulted, on Dec...

Virginia: ACLU will assist Gloucester residents in appeal

Posted on February 02, 2009
AP: “The American Civil Liberties Union and a Charlottesville-based free speech group will assist Gloucester County residents appealing a judge?s order that they pay legal fees of county supervisors that they unsuccessfully tried to remove from office ...

?So Help Me God? in Judicial Oath

Posted on February 02, 2009
Eugene Volokh writes on the Volokh Conspiracy site: Each justice or judge of the United States shall take the following oath or affirmation before performing the duties of his office: “I, _______ _______, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to [...

?Alito urges public service by lawyers?

Posted on February 02, 2009
How Appealing links to several reports discussing the content of a recent speech by Justice Alito at the University of Virginia. Visit Site » Share This

George Washington University College Democrats Vandalize Pro-Life Display

Posted on February 02, 2009
LifeNews: “George Washington University college Democrats group is facing accusations that some of its members vandalized a pro-life display. A campus affiliate of the pro-life conservative [...]

Leftist Catholic group seeks UN status

Posted on February 02, 2009
One News Now: A Catholic pro-abortion group wants official recognition from the United Nations. The organization is the Mexican affiliate of Catholics for a Free Choice and is now called Catholics for Choice. LifeSiteNews.com reports Catholics for Choice claims to offer “liberating” Catholic stances on “reproductive health” and sexuality ...

CBS picks up arranged-marriage series

Posted on February 02, 2009
The Live Feed: “CBS is treading into potentially controversial reality TV territory again. The network has ordered a new series from the producers of “Top Chef” that puts lovelorn singles into arranged marriages.” Visit Site » Share This

Religious Studies GCSE to have questions on homosexuality, binge drinking and drugs

Posted on February 02, 2009
The Telegraph reports: Instead of concentrating on the Bible and the holy books and tenets of other major religions, a significant part of the course is tied to citizenship and personal, social and health education. Academics claim, however, that the syllabus, to be taught from September, had turned [...

Unions display their anti-marriage colors

Posted on February 02, 2009
OneNewsNow: “California unions have combined forces in hopes to overturn Proposition 8 . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

Employees win in two religious accomodation cases

Posted on February 02, 2009
The Religion Clause Blog reports on two recent Title VII cases.� One involves: “In Trenton, New Jersey, a federal jury awarded $10,000 in damages against United Parcel Service for failing to create an exception to its grooming guidelines to accommodate a Rastafarian employment applicant...

?Commentary: Justice Scalia?s Contradictions and Euro-Bashing?

Posted on February 02, 2009
Michael D. Goldhaber writes in the American Lawyer: Speaking Wednesday at a conference organized by the Institute of American and Talmudic Law, which is affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement, Scalia argued that, under a proper conception of the judicial role, judges have little to say about privacy...

Judge to Amish: Comply with regs or get evicted

Posted on February 02, 2009
The Tribune Democrat reports: “Judge Norman Krumenacker has given two Amish couples 60 days in which to have their new houses in compliance with building and sewage regulations or face eviction . . . ” Visit Site » Share This

Conversion To ?Prison Islam? Is Popular

Posted on February 02, 2009
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “An article in Sunday’s Everett, Washington Herald discusses the growth of conversion to Islam in U.S. prisons. Vassar professor Lawrence Mamiya estimates that 10% of all prison inmates have converted, though only 20% of those continue in the faith after they are released...

California?s ?Green Jobs? Experiment Isn?t Going Well

Posted on February 02, 2009
Stephen Moore writes in the Wall Street Journal: . . . Now, as the Golden State prepares to implement this regulatory scheme, employers are howling. It’s become clear to nearly everyone that the plan’s backers have underestimated its negative impact and exaggerated the benefits...

Justice Department Will Likely Focus on Race Instead of Religious Discrimination

Posted on February 02, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: “In the Civil Rights Division, it is expected that the Department will return to its traditional role of mainly focusing on racial and ethnic discrimination. In the Bush administration, the Division had shifted away from these areas in order to focus on religious discrimination cases ...

?SLDN Opposes Supreme Court Review of Gay Military Case?

Posted on February 02, 2009
Leonard Link: The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network filed a brief with the Supreme Court on January 26, responding to the petition by James E. Pietrangelo, II, which had asked the Court to review a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit in Boston rejecting a constitutional challenge to the “Don?t Ask, [...

Birth control as economic stimulus defended by Planned Parenthood

Posted on February 02, 2009
The Brownsville Herald carries this report that includes this: “The bottom line is that it could save states money by preventing taxpayer-funded births,” said Rochelle Tafolla, the spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas...

?Octuplets Fallout: Should Fertility Doctors Set Limits??

Posted on February 02, 2009
Just about the time that eight babies began growing inside a California woman's womb, some nationwide policies about fertility treatment were being codified.

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