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Bloomberg
Say No to YES
June 30, 2022
A reader pointed me to this paper, by Margaret Forster, Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald at Notre Dame, about “Commonality in Codes of Ethics.”
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Finance
Associated Press
1/6 hearings fuel the question: Did Trump commit a crime?
June 29, 2022
A more likely option for prosecution, said Jimmy Gurule, a former federal prosecutor who is a Notre Dame law professor, would be to pursue a case that Trump conspired to defraud the United States through his wide-ranging efforts to overturn the election and to obstruct the congressional proceeding at which the results were to be certified.
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Notre Dame Law School
New York Daily News
Are religious charter schools coming soon?
June 28, 2022
Nicole Garnett is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.
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Reuters
U.S. Supreme Court takes aim at separation of church and state
June 28, 2022
Nicole Stelle Garnett, a Notre Dame Law School professor who joined a brief filed with the justices backing the football coach, said the court was merely making clear that governments must treat religious people the same as everyone else.
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Bloomberg
Supreme Court Again Nods to History, Tradition in Religion Case
June 28, 2022
The historical test “will provide much needed clarity and consistency to an area of law that has been notoriously confused and inconsistent,” said Notre Dame Law School Professor Richard Garnett, who filed an amicus brief supporting the coach.
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CNN
Supreme Court further erodes separation between church and state in case of praying football coach
June 27, 2022
Notre Dame Law School Professor Richard W. Garnett, who wrote a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Kennedy, said on Monday that the high court's ruling will "provide much needed clarity and consistency" to an area of the law that has been "notoriously confused and inconsistent."
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Notre Dame Law School
The Christian Science Monitor
Prayer on the 50-yard line: Supreme Court reshapes church-state relationship
June 27, 2022
“I would say this general trend towards neutrality is the touchstone, the core principle of the First Amendment’s religion clauses, and it predates by many years ... the Roberts court,” says Nicole Stelle Garnett, professor at Notre Dame Law School and former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas.
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Catholic News Service
Supreme Court sides with coach in public school prayer case
June 27, 2022
For Richard Garnett, Notre Dame professor of law and director of the Notre Dame Program on Church, State and Society, the ruling affirmed that public employees do not lose their right to religious expression in the public square.
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The Hill
Supreme Court sides with high school coach who led prayer on football field
June 27, 2022
“The court has made explicit what perhaps has been implicit for a while: that the Establishment Clause is not a justification for censoring religious speech in the name of avoiding endorsements,” said Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School.
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Bloomberg
Supreme Court Backs Coach Who Lost Job Over Midfield Prayers
June 27, 2022
The ruling “confirms that the First Amendment’s rule against establishments of religion is not an excuse for censoring religious expression,” said Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School.
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Notre Dame Law School
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New York Daily News
Are religious charter schools coming soon?
June 27, 2022
Nicole Stelle Garnett is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.
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Notre Dame Law School
WGN
Defining the separation of church and state
June 26, 2022
Richard Garnett, Law Professor at Notre Dame, joined WGN Radio’s Karen Conti to discuss freedom of religion and the separation of church and state.
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Notre Dame Law School
USA Today
Where the abortion fight goes from here: Roe overruled, but the battle will continue
June 24, 2022
"There's this roaring river of controversy over Roe," Sherif Girgis, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, said in an interview before the court’s decision. "That river will just be dashed into 100 streams."
Vox
Afghanistan’s staggering set of crises, explained
June 23, 2022
“They are not willing to use people who can work: technocrats, the experts that are already there, at home; they go to work, they have no role. And every day that passes, they become more irrelevant,” said Aref Dostyar, senior adviser at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and a former Afghan government official.
The Wall Street Journal
A Good Week for Religious Freedom
June 23, 2022
Richard Garnett is a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame and an associated scholar with the Religious Freedom Institute.
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Notre Dame Law School
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Bloomberg
Supreme Court Backs Tax Dollars for Religious Schools
June 23, 2022
Richard Garnett, a Professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses a divided Supreme Court decision strengthening religious rights by bolstering the rights of parents to use taxpayer funds for religious education.
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Notre Dame Law School
Los Angeles Times
Supreme Court rules for parents seeking state aid for religious schools
June 21, 2022
“The court said again no state may set up a program of private school choice and exclude funding for faith-based schools,” said Nicole Garnett, a Notre Dame law professor.
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Notre Dame Law School
Time
As Russia Threatens Captured American Vets, U.S. Invokes Laws of War
June 21, 2022
Every fighter claiming to be a legal combatant is entitled to a hearing to learn if their conduct in any way violated the law of war, such as failing to wear a uniform or some form of insignia while engaging in military operations, said Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of international law at the University of Notre Dame.
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NPR
Supreme Court rules Maine's tuition assistance program must cover religious schools
June 21, 2022
Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett says charter schools "are a gray area.... I am genuinely curious to see how the law of charter schools develops and whether we get to a point where a charter school is permitted to be as ...religiously imbued as a parochial school is. "
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Notre Dame Law School
Business Insider
Supreme Court strikes down ban on state funding for religious education, a major win for religious interests
June 21, 2022
"The court's already made pretty clear the rules here," Nicole Garnett, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School who filed a legal brief in support of the plaintiffs, told Insider ahead of the decision.
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Notre Dame Law School
The Washington Post
Supreme Court says Maine cannot deny tuition aid to religious schools
June 21, 2022
Notre Dame law professor Nicole Stelle Garnett filed a lawsuit against Maine’s program 25 years ago. She called Tuesday’s decision a “victory both for religious liberty and for American schoolchildren.”
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Our Sunday Visitor
Hand or tongue? Kneeling or standing? Either way, receiving the Eucharist should be an act of communion
June 20, 2022
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
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McGrath Institute for Church Life
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Our Sunday Visitor
Opening the Word: A loving sacrifice inspired by the Gospel
June 20, 2022
Catherine Cavadini, Ph.D., is the assistant chair of the Department of Theology and director of the master’s in theology program at the University of Notre Dame.
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CNN
ANALYSIS | Colombia needs a leader to implement the peace agreement. For women, it's a matter of life and death (ANÁLISIS | Colombia necesita un líder que implemente el acuerdo de paz. Para las mujeres, es una cuestión de vida o muerte)
June 19, 2022
However, the conservative government of Iván Duque, which took power in 2018, has not yet implemented 42 of the 133 gender commitments it had agreed to, according to the Kroc Institute , which is in charge of monitoring the implementation of the Agreement. (Sin embargo, el gobierno conservador de Iván Duque, que asumió el poder en 2018, aún no ha implementado 42 de los 133 compromisos de género que había acordado, según el Instituto Kroc, encargado de monitorear la implementación del Acuerdo.)
National Geographic
New lab to simulate 200 mph hurricanes in quest to make storm-resistant homes
June 17, 2022
But turning that science into on-the-ground home improvement will be another challenge, says Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a structural engineer at Notre Dame University and NICHE co-lead researcher.
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Engineering; Keough School of Global Affairs
ABC News
What interest rate hikes mean for you and the economy
June 16, 2022
“At this point, a hard landing is unavoidable,” Eric Sims, a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, told ABC News. “There will be some short-term pain.”
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Department of Economics
Scientific American
Pesticides Are Spreading Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Scientists Warn
June 15, 2022
“We’ve seen fluoro groups in insecticides, but I would not call those PFAS,” says Graham Peaslee, a professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
United Health Foundation Directs $100 Million to Diversify Health-Care Professional Pipeline
June 15, 2022
$35 million to the University of Notre Dame to create an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to environmental and public health on the university’s East Campus Research Complex.
Forbes
Why Republicans’ Attack On CEO Activism May Not Be Justified
June 15, 2022
This is what a team of researchers at University of Notre Dame and Penn State University found when they examined changes in employees’ Glassdoor ratings before and after their employer took a stance on the North Carolina transgender bathroom debate.
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Associated Press
UK cancels first flight to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda
June 15, 2022
“At a global level, this unapologetically punitive deal further condones the evisceration of the right to seek asylum in wealthy countries,” said Maurizio Albahari, a migration expert at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana as he described the UK policy.
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Anthropology