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One of Justice John Paul Stevens final opinions [message #62806]

Wed, 30 June 2010 05:14

yusime

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http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-1371.ZC.html

Christian Legal Soc. v. Martinez

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-1371.ZS.html

http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/06/analysis-a-fatal-stipulation/

The decision basically states public organizations that have a nondiscrimination policy can require groups that wish recognition by the organization to comply with the policy so long as the policy is not expressly biased against the group seeking recognition and requires every group who wants recognition to be in accordance with the policy of the organization.

Or public organizations can set up rules according to the desire of the organization and groups that seek privileges must abide by the rules to receive those privileges.

If you only want the relevant links its 1 and 3. 2 is the outline of the case, and the last one is for those interested in Justice Stevens.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/05/john-paul-stevens-leader-of-the-resistance/

The United States says goodbye to a very principled and respectable man. I am glad that Stevens gave us Romer v. Evans and that his dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick became the ruling of the Supreme Court in Lawerence v. Texas.

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him a spinal cord would suffice. Albert Einstein

Re: One of Justice John Paul Stevens final opinions [message #62809 is a reply to message #62806]

Wed, 30 June 2010 06:45

saben

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I wonder if the Christians will try and join the campus' GLBT group in protest?

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Re: One of Justice John Paul Stevens final opinions [message #62827 is a reply to message #62809]

Fri, 02 July 2010 05:38

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The Conservatives on the Supreme Court made their right of center argument that states exactly the point you bring up. However I would hate to think that a group of law students would be afraid to have debate within their own membership about the law in general. I think it is one thing to want group membership, in certain circumstances, to have similar beliefs, but to ban people from joining a group because the members don't want to have someone questioning their beliefs is just silly especially in a law school. Here is a Washington Post editorial saying the same thing the court's Conservatives said only applying left of center logic.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/18/AR2010041802818.html

I doubt if the Christians would want to do something like that; they were up in arms trying to prevent one person who was gay from joining their group. I doubt they would want to be around several gay people if they could avoid it, however the ruling can have a profound impact on a very limited setting and can change American law in ways that no one can predict right now.

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him a spinal cord would suffice. Albert Einstein

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