Marc O. DeGirolami is an Associate Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law. Professor DeGirolami’s scholarship focuses on law and religion, constitutional law, and criminal law. His book, Tragedy and History: The Quality of Religious Liberty, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. His papers have appeared in various law journals including Constitutional Commentary, Legal Theory, Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Boston College Law Review, Alabama Law Review, and St. John's Law Review, among others. He also writes occasionally for The New Republic. He is the Associate Director of the Center for Law and Religion, and a member of the popular legal blog, “Mirror of Justice.”
There has been a curious silence in the news and on the blogs about the preliminary injunction in Newland v. Sebelius. True, there are some unique issues involving the nature of the plaintiffs, but the case may indicate the direction that courts which get over the ripeness hump and do reach the Religious Freedom Restoration Act […]
