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24 Feb 2014, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Douglas Laycock, Symposium: Congress Answered This Question: Corporations Are Covered.Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle, Symposium: Religious Questions and Saving Constructions.From SmartCILP:Daniel P. [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 1:30 pm
As religion-law scholar Douglas Laycock put it, writing in another case on behalf of Muslim American veterans: “If government can sponsor a Christian cross and deny that it has done anything religious, then words and symbols have no meaning and the Court has consigned the Establishment Clause to the world of Alice in Wonderland. [read post]
25 Jul 2020, 3:44 pm by Andrew Koppelman
Thanks to Caroline Mala Corbin, Janet Halley, Rick Hills, Nan Hunter, Douglas Laycock, Micah Schwartzman, and Steven D. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 1:23 pm by Calvin Massey
Douglas Laycock, for the church, argued that the ministerial exception is a categorical exception from otherwise applicable law, rooted in the requirements of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, and that "[a] minister is a person who holds ecclesiastical office in the church or who exercises important religious functions, most obviously, including teaching of the faith. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 1:20 pm by Jim Oleske
But he is not alone in shifting from an emphasis on the most-favored-nation rule to an emphasis on overruling Smith: The most prominent scholarly advocate of the most-favored-nation approach, Professor Douglas Laycock, wrote an amicus brief in Fulton urging the court to overturn Smith rather than rely on the most-favored-nation theory because “a threshold requirement to show that a law is not generally applicable vastly complicates every litigation. [read post]
It’s hard to say, but interestingly enough, Justice Kennedy might have an easier time invalidating all prayers before city council meetings than he would invalidating “sectarian” prayers but leaving room for non-sectarian ones to continue, the latter position being the one advanced by the challengers and presented to the Court by the eminent law professor Douglas Laycock. [read post]
19 Feb 2007, 10:03 pm
Taylor, West Virginia University College of LawReception and Dinner, withKeynote Address:  Douglas Laycock, University of Michigan School ofLawFriday, April 13, 2007Panel II: Government Religious ExpressionModerator:  Anne Marie Lofaso, West Virginia University College of LawPanelists:      Frederick M. [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 1:43 pm
Douglas Laycock and signed by a dozen law-and-religion scholars, setting them straight. [read post]
4 Apr 2010, 10:45 am by Howard Friedman
Gregory Wallace, Justifying Religious Freedom: The Western Tradition, 114 Penn State Law Review 485-570 (2009).Shannon Gilreath, Not a Moral Issue: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty (Reviewing Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty, edited by Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 4:47 am
Wilson and Douglas Laycock are co-editors of Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Liberties (2008). [read post]
21 Jul 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
The Unnecessary Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2020).Douglas Laycock            1. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 7:12 am by Marissa Miller
  In an op-ed for CNN, Douglas Laycock, who argued the case on behalf of the church, describes the decision as “sweeping” and “unqualified. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  Douglas Laycock Sandy Levinson has been my friend and colleague for more than forty years. [read post]
9 Oct 2011, 5:18 am by Leslie Griffin
Justice Sonia Sotomayor identified the important legal issue early in the oral argument when she asked the church’s lawyer, University of Virginia Professor Douglas Laycock, “doesn’t society have a right at some point to say certain conduct is unacceptable, even if religious? [read post]
15 Apr 2021, 7:13 am by Jim Oleske
As the theory’s leading proponent, Professor Douglas Laycock, has observed, “[i]f a law with even a few secular exceptions isn’t neutral and generally applicable, then not many laws are. [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 2:09 pm by David Post
*See Douglas Laycock, Equal Citizens of Equal and Territorial States: The Constitutional Foundations of Choice of Law, 92 Colum. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 8:53 am by Ronald Mann
The justices also may take account of an amicus brief in support of neither party filed by law professor Douglas Laycock and a group of other prominent scholars of the law of remedies. [read post]
14 Jul 2013, 9:30 pm by Kara Cheever
Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia and a scholar on church-state conflicts, believes that the cases are “highly likely to end up at the Supreme Court. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 6:59 pm by Leslie Griffin
” The church’s lawyer, Douglas Laycock, said yes to probing the church’s sham assertion that this person is a minister and no to deciding whether the firing was a pretext. [read post]