Law.com - 3rd Circuit Rejects Muslim Cop's Bid to Wear Religious Scarf

[Dave Sidhu]

Dear Friends,

If anyone is interested in reviewing Directive 78 (the police
department's uniform policy), I have a copy of it on my hard drive.
Please feel free to contact me directly and I will send you the file.

Also, here is a link to the Third Circuit's decision:
http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/073081p.pdf

Best,
Dave

--
Dawinder “Dave” S. Sidhu
http://www.ssrn.com/Auth?_id=688955


On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Paul Finkelman
<paul.finkelman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> is it because the perception of religious bias by a police officer would
> impact how the population feels; imagine she busts a non-religious Moslem
> woman without headgear?  Does this lead to a perception of unfairness; or
> she busts an Orthodox Jew in his headgear?  Seems to me any religious
> symbols on police officers undermines their authority and community
> relations.
>
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> --- On Wed, 4/8/09, David Cruz <dcruz at law.usc.edu> wrote:
>
> From: David Cruz <dcruz at law.usc.edu>
> Subject: RE: Law.com - 3rd Circuit Rejects Muslim Cop's Bid to Wear
> Religious Scarf
> To: "Law & Religion issues for Law Academics" <religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu>,
> paul.finkelman at yahoo.com
> Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 11:24 AM
>
> I don't understand why counsel would not have argued starting with the
> complaint that a rule against wearing *religious* symbols or attire was
> not a "neutral law of general applicability" and thus should receive
> strict scrutiny under the federal Free Exercise Clause.
>
> David B. Cruz
> Professor of Law
> University of Southern California Gould School of Law
> 699 Exposition Blvd.
> Los Angeles, CA 90089-0071
> U.S.A.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu
> [mailto:religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Joel Sogol
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 2:05 AM
> To: Religionlaw
> Subject: Law.com - 3rd Circuit Rejects Muslim Cop's Bid to Wear
> Religious Scarf
>
> A Muslim woman who works as a Philadelphia police officer has lost her
> court
> battle to wear a religious head scarf on the job now that the 3rd U.S.
> Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that forcing the department to
> accommodate her would compromise the city's interest in maintaining
> "religious neutrality" in its police force.
>
> http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202429736190
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