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11 Apr 2017, 7:30 am by Nora Ellingsen, Lisa Daniels
After September 11, 2001, TRAC indicated there were 629 convictions, while the Justice Department records counted 627 convictions. [read post]
20 Feb 2014, 4:17 am
Supp. 2d 745 (E.D.N.Y. 1988) (Sikh employee who objected to a hardhat requirement when that interfered with his ability to wear a religiously prescribed turban) [read post]
29 May 2012, 6:23 am by Anup Surendranath
Union of India, a Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, comprising Chief Justice Madan Lokur and Justice Sanjay Kumar, struck down the two Office Memorandums of the Government of India (dated 22 December 2011) that carved out a 4.5% sub-quota for minorities from the overall 27% OBC quota in Central Government posts and certain central educational institutions. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 9:12 am by TARUNABH KHAITAN
The law moved away from a strict corrective justice model of reacting to wrongdoing, towards a hybrid-model, where a corrective justice structure was retained to serve broader distributive justice ends (Khaitan and Steel forthcoming). [read post]
2 Nov 2016, 4:25 am by SHG
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6 Jun 2011, 4:54 pm
 The Lukumi test is tricky because it sometimes turns on subjective purpose, and for that reason, Justice Scalia, writing separately in Lukumi, expressed discomfort with this aspect of the rule, but even though the portion of Justice Kennedy's opinion in Lukumi that adopted a subjective test did not get 5 votes, I think that it probably is the law nonetheless--in light of equal protection cases that take the same perspective. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 12:37 am by Frank Cranmer
Article 9 protects believers, rather than the religions or beliefs themselves, and it was pointed out during the Religion Media Centre briefing that Jews and Sikhs also benefit from special protection as racial groups under UK race relations legislation, while Hindus and Muslims do not. [read post]
1 Oct 2019, 10:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Is the criminal-justice system the best way to deal with people whose offenses are rooted in severe mental illness? [read post]
23 Jul 2014, 4:00 am by Guest Blogger
The Sikh, Muslim and Hindu Indian British subjects probably believed the hype: that Canada in the early 20th Century was an open, diverse and burgeoning nation. [read post]
14 May 2022, 12:38 pm by INFORRM
After an observant Sikh had unsuccessfully applied to the City of Konstanz for an exemption to the helmet obligation he approached the courts, arguing that his right to freedom of religion had been infringed. [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 3:45 pm by Ken Krupat
” Reading the combination of these statements, one might have thought that Justice Kennedy and one or two other judges would have come down on the side of the two dissenters, Justices Bader-Ginsburg and Sotomayor, who would have upheld the decision of the CCRC. [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 7:12 am by Richard B. Katskee
For many who live in this religiously diverse community — including Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and nonbelievers — the prominent display of the central symbol of Christianity conveys that “Bladensburg is a Christian community; those who don’t share our faith do not belong. [read post]
6 Mar 2016, 2:51 pm by Chuck Cosson
  This includes “radical Islamic terrorism” (connoting a radical vision of Islam at odds with much of Islam’s history and mainstream practice), and other ideologies, including racial animosity,[3] the irreligious, and those fueled by economic and social fears.[4]  Domestic “militia” movements are also expanding numbers of adherents,[5] and use networked information technologies to recruit followers, and to plan violent activity.[6] The characteristics of… [read post]