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11 Nov 2011, 8:48 am
Editor’s Note: As a beneficiary of Delaware’s status as a mecca for corporate litigation, I’m in no position to be critical, but I think Professor Black’s statistical analysis of the declining market share of corporate litigation in Delaware provides a sobering reminder that Delaware’s prominence is not a natural or God-given right, such as self-defense, for example, and is subject to perennial challenges from the federal government and other states. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 7:26 pm
Pilgrimages of this kind, called Hajj, are a requirement for all muslim people who are capable of traveling to Mecca. [read post]
2 Nov 2011, 8:50 pm
”The newspaper’s website also appeared to have been hacked, with its regular home page replaced with a photo of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and a message reading: “No god but Allah”. [read post]
1 Nov 2011, 9:16 am
A majority of New Jersey’s small business owners want the Legislature to address legal reform, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton survey. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 10:32 pm
” [NYT "Room for Debate"] Texas man drops suit against former fiancee [Above the Law] “$75,000 Settlement for Muslim Teacher Denied 19 Days’ Unpaid Leave for Hajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca)” [Volokh] Epidemiology for hire: “The Texas Sharpshooter Goes Free Range” [David Oliver] Tags: expert witnesses, Florida, medical malpractice, nanny state, religious discrimination, Wal-Mart Related posts January 14 roundup (1) September 25… [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 1:42 pm
Law Lessons from Mecca v. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 1:40 pm
Law Lessons from Mecca v. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 10:42 am
A public school district in the U.S. must pay a Muslim teacher tens of thousands of dollars and establish a religious accommodation training program for refusing to let the instructor take three weeks off to make a pilgrimage to Mecca. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 7:07 pm
Very few Arabs had ever settled there. 3 – The so-called al aksa Mosque cannot possibly be the one in the Koran; it was built years after Mohamed died; it was dubbed the al aksa mosque by a Turk who was forbidden entrance to Mecca and needed another place to make a pilgrimage to. 4 – Arabs are the interlopers in the Holy Land and North Africa. 5 – The Crusades were a counter-offensive and not an offensive; they were waged to expel the invader and not to invade. [read post]
15 Oct 2011, 3:40 pm
HT: Volokh Conspiracy: $75,000 Settlement for Muslim Teacher Denied 19 Days’ Unpaid Leave for Hajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca). [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 7:05 pm
(Eugene Volokh) A Justice Department press release, issued yesterday, reports:The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with the Board of Education of Berkeley School District 87 in Berkeley, Ill. that, if approved by the court, will resolve a religious accommodations lawsuit filed in December 2010. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 4:11 pm
Any resemblance to these religions is superficial: While the army observes rituals such as praying the rosary and bowing toward Mecca, there is no prescribed theology in the conventional sense. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 12:00 am
It is designed to provide advanced opportunities for eligible second- and third-year law students to be immersed in hands-on learning about business associations, investment banking and corporate entities, including with regulators, in a city widely considered a mecca for the banking and business industries.The program also fosters interdisciplinary experiences between business and law that prepare students for careers in business law.Under the direction of attorney supervisors, the… [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 2:19 pm
[Nota Bene: Readers are warned in advance that this will be the first in another of those desultory series on this blog about the continuing decline and fall of ECUSA. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 10:18 am
Certainly UM has an outstanding international law program, but with so much legal work being done here, the school should be a mecca for lawyers from other countries to come for training. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 1:45 pm
When it comes to cities that put a priority on bike safety, you can’t do much better than California’s Alameda County, the East Bay bicycle mecca that includes Berkeley. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 3:54 am
Miami’s Versailles restaurant is a Cuban-American mecca for good Cuban soul food, politics, and wacky people and things such as a lawnmower in the trunk of a luxury car. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 8:19 pm
At the risk of forever being labeled a nerd’s nerd, one of the Top 5 most-awesome experiences of my life came during one of those summers when, in a less-than-3-hours span, I met Jonathan Ive showing off a G4 Cube in Apple’s cafeteria, had a 15-minute technical conversation with Avie Tevanian about his Mach kernel, and as I was walking with the Campus Rep group back to our room I made a comment along the lines of “This is like a trip to Mecca” or something… [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
It wasn't New York City inspectors nor the Food and Drug Administration that found that the nation's best-known deli was selling lobster salad without the lobster, but a reporter from Cajun country.I'm not the only one who has traveled hundreds of miles to get to Zabar's, the Manhattan Mecca for all deli lovers.The aromas from its corned beef and pastrami; smoked salmon, sturgeon and whitefish; fish salads and pickles; and some of New York's finest bagels, breads… [read post]
11 Aug 2011, 5:15 pm
Perhaps the most interesting goal is not only to make Vancouver a 'green livable' city, but to ambitiously become a 'Mecca of green enterprise'. [read post]
