Michael J Broyde

December 05, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The law gives everyone just enough rights to hurt schoolchildren in underperforming private religious schools, but not enough rights to actually help them. In cases where religious parents want less education than the state mandates—or even simply refuse to teach that which conflicts with their religious faith that the state labels a minimum—a compromise is needed.

By Michael J. Broyde

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August 22, 2005 | National Law Journal

The Archdiocese of Portland stands accused of hypocrisy for arguing that a woman seeking child support should have used an �intrinsically evil� contraceptive device. But is this criticism too harsh when a religious institution is subject to a secular legal system?

By Yitzchok Adlerstein and Michael J. BroydeSpecial to The National Law Journal

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September 12, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

The church could promulgate its beliefs and practices, but it was forced to kneel at the altar of a dominant secular authority that demanded the final legal say.

By Yitzchok Adlerstein and Michael J. Broyde

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June 30, 2005 | National Law Journal

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court decided both of the Ten Commandments cases pending on its docket -- ordering displays removed from two Kentucky courthouses, while allowing a monument to remain in a Texas park, While many commentators decried the result in one case or the other (and some mourned the lack of Court unity on the issue), professor Michael J. Broyde focuses on three important principles of constitutional law upon which all nine justices agreed.

By Michael J. Broyde

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