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Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists protest alongside each other during a demonstration outside of the
Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 4.
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particularly afflict segments of
the population that do not have
access to private care or the
means to travel to states with
more liberal laws.

Jody Rabhan, NCJW’s chief
policy officer, said that by
taking up the case the court
is signaling it wants to revisit
Roe v. Wade — even though
the Supreme court does not
usually take up cases that are
not in dispute in the lower
courts. A Pissarro painting’s
rightful place
In Cassirer v. Thyssen-
Bornemisza Foundation, the
descendants of a Jewish woman
forced to give up a Camille
Pissarro painting to Nazis
for her freedom are seeking
its restitution from its current
owner, a state-owned museum
in Madrid.

The case hinges on whether
California or Spanish law
applies here.

Spanish law allows an
owner to retain stolen property
if there was no reason at the
time of purchase to believe it
was stolen, and if no one comes
forward to claim it within a
given period of time. In the U.S.,
by contrast, there is no time
limit for the original owner to
reclaim stolen property.

Stern said the AJC is consid-
ering an amicus brief, in part
because he would like the court
to consider an issue narrower
than the thorny one of whether
Spanish law supersedes U.S.

law: if the museum is lying.

Stern does not believe
the museum carried out due
diligence when it acquired the
painting in 1999, and may not
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be entitled to the painting even
under Spanish law.

Paying for religious
schools Accepting a case involving
the separation of church and
state is the one sure way to get
dueling Jewish amicus briefs
before the Supreme Court.

Carson v. Makin fits the bill.

In Maine, some parents
want to use state funds to
send their children to religious
schools. Maine and Vermont
are the only two states that
allow parents of children in
rural districts without a high
school to opt out of sending
their kids to a neighboring
district’s public school. Instead,
they can use state funds to send
them to an in-district private
school — unless that private
school is religious.

The parents in Carson v.

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