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Showing posts with label freedom of religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom of religion. Show all posts
Friday, November 4, 2022

As Jacoby talk commemorates Kristallnacht, Ukraine recurs in historical record of flights from oppression

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An upcoming talk on Kristallnacht, a recent experience in the Paraguayan Chaco, and the ongoing war in Ukraine have me thinking lately about...
Monday, July 25, 2022

Families retain common law rights over loved ones' remains when a church sells a graveyard, court holds

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Photo by Bicanski via Pixnio Principles of common law trust give families a say over the disposition of their loved ones' remains when...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

UMass Law Federalist Society talks speech, SCOTUS

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Regular blog readers will soon recognize that I am playing catch-up, sharing items that I stockpiled for the better part of the spring semes...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

As America, France share Enlightenment roots, why have worker rights so diverged? Or have they?

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Thomas D. Aaron Wazlavek, Esq. has published an article in comparative labor law: The Pond Separates Cultures but Not Values: A Comparativ...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Christian flag, Nazi art color SCOTUS arguments this week, raising First Amendment, choice-of-law issues

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in both the Boston flag First Amendment scrap ( on this blog ) and the latest transn...
Friday, October 1, 2021

Boston flag scrap heads to Washington

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Three flagpoles at Boston City Hall ( photo by Daderot CC0 1.0 ) A Boston First Amendment flag-flying case is Supreme Court bound. The cas...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

Remembering journalist Paul Greenberg, 1937-2021

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pxhere CC0 1.0 In April, our world lost a great American writer : Paul Greenberg died at age 84. Long a nationally syndicated columnist ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Lockdown tests religious freedom, responsibility

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For two reasons, it pains me to see churches on the news violating stay-at-home rules.  First, like almost everyone, I'm horrified by t...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

It'd Be a Lot Cooler If You Did.
Or, Marlan on Psychedelics and Decriminalization

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Mary Jane's in Eugene, Oregon, 2017, since closed.  ( Rick Obst CC BY 2.0 .) My colleague Dustin Marlan has published Beyond Canna...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Public officials must know religious freedom gets strict scrutiny, so lose qualified immunity in civil rights case over church access

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In a civil rights case involving the freedom of religion, the Massachusetts Appeals Court today denied qualified immunity to public official...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Supreme Court chooses free exercise over anti-establishment today; does status-use distinction remain viable?

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this morning in favor of the church in the religious freedom case about public subsidy of playground surfacin...