[EL] Fwd: my Hobby Lobby op ed

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Jul 2 14:23:37 PDT 2014


I think we all agree that a discussion of Hobby Lobby's merits is beyond 
the scope of this listserv.  Thanks Joe.


On 7/2/14, 2:22 PM, Joe La Rue wrote:
> I'm an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented 
> Conestoga Wood Specialties (the other, lesser-known petitioner in what 
> is known as 'the 'Hobby Lobby case'). It is difficult for me not to 
> respond to what is, at best, Professor Askin's gross misunderstanding 
> of what was at stake for the Green and Hahn families (the owners of 
> Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties).  But, as has been 
> correctly pointed out, the Hobby Lobby decision has /_absolutely 
> nothing_ /to do with election law and should never have been brought 
> up on this list serve. I shall therefore let Professor Askin's 
> erroneous statements go unchallenged and his wrong characterizations 
> go uncorrected, /_because this discussion does not belong on this list 
> serve_/.
>
> Joe
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> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Steve Klein 
> <stephen.klein.esq at gmail.com <mailto:stephen.klein.esq at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Seems to be par for the course post-/Hobby Lobby./
>
>     http://www.salon.com/2014/06/30/they_have_no_principles_how_corporations_and_theocrats_took_over_america/
>
>     "It wasn't quiteMarch 6, 1857..."
>
>     No, no, not /quite/.
>
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>     On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Benjamin Barr
>     <benjamin.barr at gmail.com <mailto:benjamin.barr at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         The piece only gets better, Ilya.  The next sentence compares
>         the case to slave-owners complaining about Lincoln.  I suspect
>         Hitler references might have been too over-the-top.
>
>         Forward,
>
>         B
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>         On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Ilya Shapiro
>         <IShapiro at cato.org <mailto:IShapiro at cato.org>> wrote:
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>             Sorry, but I stopped reading once I saw that the first
>             sentence began  "Five male members of the U.S. Supreme
>             Court...."  Also, not sure how this relates to election law.
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>             Subject: [EL] Fwd: my Hobby Lobby op ed
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>             This is from today's Star-Ledger. FRANK
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>             From: "Janet Donohue" <jdonohue at kinoy.rutgers.edu
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>             Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 11:33:39 AM
>             Subject: Re: my Ledger op ed
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>             Attached.
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>             ----- Original Message -----
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>             From: "Frank Askin" <faskin at kinoy.rutgers.edu
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>             To: jdonohue at kinoy-new.rutgers.edu
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>             Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 10:26:13 AM
>             Subject: my Ledger op ed
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>             can you send me a pdf for distribution> FRANK
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