The US Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court’s ruling requiring Yeshiva University in New York City to recognize a campus LGBTQ pride group.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted an emergency request on Friday filed last week by the modern Orthodox university that cited its rights under the First Amendment, which protects the free exercise of religion. The university argued that such recognition would be contrary to its beliefs.
The decision puts on hold a ruling issued by a New York state judge in June that the school must recognize the group. It comes amid a lengthy legal battle between the university and an LGBTQ Pride Alliance Club hinging on whether the university is a religious or secular institution.
Sep 09 2022 Upon consideration of the application of counsel for the applicants and the response and reply field thereto, it is ordered that the injunction of the New York trial court, case No. 154010/2021, is hereby stayed pending further order of Justice Sotomayor or of the Court.
ReplyDeleteHey, can I do a motion for a stay of the QDRO ordering 55% of my pension to my ex-wife I divorced on 2/17/1993 with no end in sight? My Motion 460 June 27, 2022 is still undecided. If NYS Court of Appeals dismisses my motion 460 I can go to SCOTUS, maybe to a single judge to request a stay.
Allow me Torah thought last week’s parsha כי תצא (Deuteronomy 24:1-4) “A man taketh a wife, and posses her ובעלה. She fails to please him because he finds something obnoxious about her, and writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it t her, and sends her away from his house; she leaves his household and becomes the wife of another man; then this latter man rejects her ושנאה, writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house; or the man who married her last dies. Then the first husband who divorced her shall not take her again to wife again, since she has been defiled (i.e. disqualified for him)---for that would ne abhorrent to the Lord. You must not bring sin upon the land הארץ that the Lord your God is giving you as a heritage.”
ReplyDeleteThe Torah forbids a woman, twice divorced, returning to her first husband. In Deuteronomy 24:1-4 two divorces with the emphasis on the wife. In first, husband divorces wife because “he hath found some unseemly thing in her.” In second, a different husband divorces the same woman “the latter husband hateth her.” My magid shiur says this 2nd husband knew he was not marrying a virgin and can divorce his wife without “he hath found some unseemly thing in her.” Of course, a man can divorce his wife without “he hath found some unseemly thing in her” if she initiates the divorce process by saying divorce me. Of course the man always pays his divorcee the Kethubah, unless she’s a moredet.
In the K-G garbage heter Tamar demanded from her husband Aaron: divorce me. Aaron refused. Rabbi Greenblatt, z”l officiated at Tamar’s illegal remarriage. Thanks DT for putting up these old posts. I like what I wrote there.