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26 Jan 2014, 6:00 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 6872 (WD OK, Jan. 21, 2014), an Oklahoma federal district court refused to hold the the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in contempt, finding that it has taken every reasonable step to comply with a prior injunction requiring it to furnish an Orthodox Jewish inmate with kosher food.In Turner v. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Now that the Justice Department has won a preliminary injunction from a federal district court ordering Florida prisons to make kosher meals available by July 1 to all prisoners with a sincere religious basis for keeping kosher (see prior posting), Muslim groups are asking for Halal meals as well. [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 3:15 pm by David Markus
 Meanwhile, the New York Times had a good read about kosher meals in prisons:Captive diners know that a good meal is hard to find.Airplane passengers, for instance, have been known to order kosher meals, even if they are not Jewish, in the hope of getting a fresher, tastier, more tolerable tray of food. [read post]
21 Jan 2014, 2:19 pm by Joe Patrice
[Think Progress] * “You Don’t Have to be Jewish to Love a Kosher Prison Meal. [read post]
21 Jan 2014, 10:40 am by Rachel, Law Clerk
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21 Jan 2014, 4:24 am by Howard Friedman
Today's New York Times carries a front page story titled You Don’t Have to Be Jewish to Love a Kosher Prison Meal, focusing on the added cost to prison systems of serving kosher food ($7 per day vs. $1.54 in Florida) and the feigning of Jewish religious beliefs by some inmates in order to be placed on kosher diets:Some states, like New York, do nothing to try to discern who is feigning Jewishness. [read post]
19 Jan 2014, 8:46 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 6426 (ED PA, Jan. 16, 2014), a Pennsylvania federal district court dismissed, with leave to amend, a Jewish inmate's complaint that the food he was served was not kosher and that his religious text (Tanach) was destroyed. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 2:24 am by Andrew Trask
Make sure you examine the text of consumer-protection statutes: those prohibitions on class actions are likely still kosher. [read post]
12 Jan 2014, 10:12 am by Howard Friedman
Plaintiff claimed that Jews who are white still receive kosher meals.In Strickland v. [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 2:34 pm by Marty Lederman
In two recent posts, I argued the following about the upcoming Hobby Lobby case, which will be argued on Tuesday morning, March 25th:(i) that, contrary to the assumptions of the plaintiffs and many federal courts, there is in fact no legal duty for the owners of Hobby Lobby and other employers to do anything their religion allegedly forbids--namely, offer the company's employees a health-insurance plan that includes contraception coverage, since there is no legal duty to offer an employee plan in… [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 3:30 pm
In an open letter on the jiplp weblog, Julian Cockbain asks whether the European Patent Office's facility for petitioning to review non-kosher Board of Appeal decisions is actually a Norwegian parrot. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 4:00 am by Kimberly A. Kralowec
  The existence of such misrepresentations by unscrupulous sellers factored heavily into Justice Werdegar's reasoning in Kwikset: The observant Jew who purchases food represented to be, but not in fact, kosher; the Muslim who purchases food represented to be, but not in fact, halal; the parent who purchases food for his or her child represented to be, but not in fact, organic, has in each instance not received the benefit of his or her bargain. [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 3:11 am by Peter Mahler
Ruggiero, 2013 NY Slip Op 31955(U) (Sup Ct Suffolk County July 29, 2013), in which Suffolk County Justice Emily Pines opted for one appraiser’s income approach over the other appraiser’s market approach in a stock valuation contest involving a family-owned kosher deli. [read post]
29 Dec 2013, 7:00 am by Howard Friedman
Plaintiff complains that he has been denied halal meals or the kosher diet provided to Jewish inmates.In Strong v. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 5:22 am by Ron Coleman
 (Mostly we laugh at the aluminum-foil “trade dress” of the kosher meal they eventually bring out for LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®.) [read post]
17 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
  For example, three years ago, an inmate reportedly received kosher meals on religious grounds—citing Festivus. [read post]
17 Dec 2013, 5:19 am by David Markus
.-- Judge Seitz orders kosher meals at state prisons by July 1 for "all prisoners with a sincere religious basis for keeping kosher." [read post]