On Tuesday, May 31, 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld the prison provisions of RLUIPA against an Establishment Clause challenge.
You can access the Supreme Court opinions here and the oral argument transcript here.
And here and here are law professor commentary on the opinion. And here is an article from the Christian Science Monitor that views Cutter as a significant boost for the rights of minority religious groups.
The web log for Prof. Duncan's Constitutional Law Classes at Nebraska Law-- "[U]nder our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American. " -----Justice Antonin Scalia If you allow the government to take your liberty during times of crisis, it will create a crisis whenever it wishes to take your liberty.
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Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop (art by Joshua Duncan) "We may not shelter in place when the C...
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I. Tinker A student's right to speak (even on controversial subjects such as war) in the cafeteria, the playing field, or "on the...
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Welcome to the First Amendment course, a course that examines the First Amendment in quite a bit of depth. For our first two classes of F...
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