still waiting for concrete examples

[Steven Jamar]

well, out of rfra and into ada?  since it is a medical necessity not to
shave, the state runs into ada.  it would seem that a closely cropped beard
would meet the medical need as opposed to a long beard which could be a
bigger problem.
steve

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:24 PM, <ArtSpitzer at aol.com> wrote:

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> It would have been very hard to prove the Department's bad motivation.  The
> Fire Department would have argued that our case made it reexamine the facial
> hair issue, and it concluded that safety required everyone to be
> clean-shaven.  (That's essentially what it did say.)
> And I'm not so sure that issuing a religion-neutral regulation because your
> lawyer advises you that if you continue to make medical exceptions you'll
> also have to make religious exceptions makes the regulation non-neutral.
> It's not as if there was no support for the Department's safety argument.
> There was support.
>
> Art Spitzer
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Prof. Steven Jamar
Howard University School of Law
Associate Director, Institute of Intellectual Property and Social Justice
(IIPSJ) Inc.
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