D.C. Court looks at lawsuit, rolls eyes
Setback for the forces of enlightenment and goodness, a triumph for popish prudery: can you believe we live in an age when righteous causes like this founder on the stony shoals of an indifferent judiciary?
The D.C. Office of Human Rights (OHR) has dismissed the complaint filed by George Washington University law professor John F. Banzhaf III in response to The Catholic University of America’s single-sex housing policy, affirming the University’s position that the law does not require men and women to be housed together in residence halls.
The law may be an ass, but it requires donkey-jockeys like Banzhaf to bridle it and shout giddy-up. But he's not done!
Banzhaf’s complaint about single sex residence halls is the first of two that he has lodged this year against the University. He filed a second complaint in October against Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington and University chancellor, charging that Catholic University has been engaging in discrimination against its Muslim students.
Love to read the details. Possibly has to do with Catholic textbooks that insist Jesus died on the cross. That really ought to read “some say,” you know. In the name of inclusion.
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Aug '10
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There are Muslims that would behead apostates caught with absolut citron in the wrong places. Banzhaf is just trying to make it easier. And when they came for the Absolut, there was no one left to order for me.
Work for advocates is a booming industry. Henry VI is making alot more sense in these times. And we can just select the advocates, the lawyers who couldn't get hired. Let's kill all the opponents has always been the call. Switcheroo
Jan '11
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Isn't this the story where the Muslim students were being forced to meet together under the omnipresent and oppressive symbols of Christianity at a (gasp) Catholic college? And it turned out the Muslim students didn't really object, and it was just this professor being "indignant" on their behalf?
The professor is looking for a little publicity. Let's emphasize "little." I don't know about you, but if my 15 minutes of fame depend on my being nothing more than a nuisance, I'll be glad to cede my time to someone else.
May '11
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I am not sure if the cause is going to founder on the stony shoals or flounder on them but within the judicial opinion you linked to is this statement:" this is a legal conclusion, and therefore, is not entitled to any assumption of truth." Truer words were never written.
Jun '10
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If they were forbidden from segregating dorm buildings, based on gender, then what's the justification for separate restrooms or showers? Sharing hot water would save a lot of energy no doubt. Students might be willing to do their part for the Environment that way.
Oct '10
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A Muslim enrolls in a Catholic institution of learning. Said institution has an established set of rules which were made clear upon enrollment.
Should one not agree with the conditions, do not sign up.
Either adapt or play some manner of victim card of discrimination as is all too common these days to garner attention.
The concept of entitled seperation in this format never serves the advancement of the whole.
Jul '10
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This nonsense is going to continue until the filing of frivolous lawsuits is made to be painful.
Jan '11
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Well, can you imagine the horror of being in Canada, and ordering 7-UP in French, but getting Sprite? Of course, you can sue and get $12,000 from the Airline!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/air-canada-ordered-to-pay-12000-to-passenger-unable-to-order-drink-in-french/article2096669/
We live in truly laughable times, and it won't end well
Oct '10
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Erik Larsen: Well, can you imagine the horror of being in Canada, and ordering 7-UP in French, but getting Sprite? Of course, you can sue and get $12,000 from the Airline!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/air-canada-ordered-to-pay-12000-to-passenger-unable-to-order-drink-in-french/article2096669/
We live in truly laughable times, and it won't end well · Nov 30 at 10:18pm
Answer: John F. Banzhaf III and Canada.
Question: Why is it so bloody hard to concoct parody these days?
Edited on Dec 1, 2011 at 12:11amOct '10
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Thus the reason Big Law gives so much money to Big Government ... so that the former can avoid the calamity of a "loser pays" system.
Sep '11
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Erik Larsen: Well, can you imagine the horror of being in Canada, and ordering 7-UP in French, but getting Sprite? Of course, you can sue and get $12,000 from the Airline!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/air-canada-ordered-to-pay-12000-to-passenger-unable-to-order-drink-in-french/article2096669/
We live in truly laughable times, and it won't end well · Nov 30 at 10:18pm
Ok, I read the article and I saw this bit:
“If I take a flight and I’m not served in the language of my choice, and I don’t do anything about it, then my right is basically dead,” said Mr. Thibodeau, who is fluently bilingual." [emphasis mine]
So the issue is not that he couldn't get served, it was that he couldn't get served in French. He probably asked for things in French again and again on multiple flights until he finally found a flight attendant who didn't speak French, then pounced. A wise defense attorney should ask him how many times he ordered in French and was served what he asked for.
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Erik Larsen: Well, can you imagine the horror of being in Canada, and ordering 7-UP in French, but getting Sprite? Of course, you can sue and get $12,000 from the Airline!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/air-canada-ordered-to-pay-12000-to-passenger-unable-to-order-drink-in-french/article2096669/
We live in truly laughable times, and it won't end well · Nov 30 at 10:18pm
In America this translates to "the guy was upset he couldn't order in French." Of course that seems frivolous. In Canada however, it's about a great deal more than that.
As a compromise of culture, there is a legal requirement there to serve in both English and French. The case wasn't about soda, but about the airline, who is saddled with government obligations, not meeting that obligation.
This man's lawsuit exposes the danger of big government. It is a warning to America not to give up our cultural heritage to the invaders from our southern border.
But like it or not, it isn't "frivolous." The guy won, after all.
Sep '11
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I grew up, among other places, in a picturesque village in northern Vermont. When I was a laddie there was a small, struggling junior college for women down the lane from us.
Decades later, I still visit with my family. And the junior college has morphed into a B.S.-granting (and, say the local wags, B.S.-emitting) institution that focuses on environmental causes.
Including sending students out, every semester, to take advantage of Vermont's open fields laws--walking across unfenced property in search of anything that might be construed as a violation of an environmental law. This so the student, and his class, can experience first-hand the legal processes involved in protecting the environment. And, of course, bankrupting a local villager with legal fees in the process. (Omelet. Eggs.)
Prof. Banzhof appears to be doing the same thing.
Apr '11
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Going to an explicitly religious school and demanding religious neutrality is like going to a Ford dealership and being angry that the salesman is trying to sell you a Ford and not a Toyota.
Apr '11
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When I was an undergrad at Catholic University in the mid '60s, the dorms were single sex. On Friday and Saturday nights the bushes on the lawns of the girls' dorms were literally full of couples "saying good night". We never saw a nun in a position of authority, but there was a campus legend that "not too long ago", as co-eds and their dates came up to the front door of Regan Hall at curfew, a screechy-voiced old nun would call from the second floor window, "Daughter of Mary, you owe him nothing!"
Edited on Dec 1, 2011 at 3:27pm