[tutstar]

Copy of court doc at the link and atlas shrugs http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/03/sharia-becomes-law-in-florida.html

[tutstar]

ping

[Tennessee Nana]

Whats the case ???

[AU72]

Try getting the same ruling for Roman Catholic Canon Law.

[raybbr]

Impeach the bastard....

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Richard A. Nielsen

JUDICIAL BIOGRAPHY

Year appointed to the bench: 2000 - Circuit Court

                                               Appointed by Governor Jeb Bush
                                               2003 - Elected Circuit Court

Assignments:

Current Assignment: Complex Business Litigation Division

Past Assignments: General Civil Division Juvenile Delinquency Division

EDUCATION

Law School: University of Florida (1973)
                    Law Review Editor

Undergraduate: University of New Mexico (1971)
                           B.A. General Studies, cum laude

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

The Florida Bar (Trial Lawyers Section, Business Law Section)
Florida Bar Civil Rules Committee (2007 - present)
Board Certified Florida Civil Trial Lawyer (1994 - 1999)
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Professionalism Committee - Co-chairman 2008 - 09
The Hillsborough County Bar Association (Technology and Professional Courtesy Committees)
Tampa Bay Inn of Court (Judge Master) (President, 2003 - 2004)Florida Conference of Circuit Court Judges
Florida College of Advanced Judicial Studies
Civil Department Head (2006 - 2008)
Instructor (2002 - 2008)

Admitted:

United States Supreme Court
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
United States District Court, Middle District of Florida
United States District Court, Southern District of Florida

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Tampa Chamber of Commerce (1986 - 2000)
Idlewild Baptist Church
Tampa Bay Baptist Association
The Idlewild Foundation

[OldDeckHand]

This is such a tempest in a teapot. It's ridiculous. This is a case about two parties voluntarily entering into a binding arbitration agreement. This happens everyday in America. Binding arbitration, between individuals and even businesses will apply non-American law in the arbitration process. It's incredibly common in international business agreements, and it's enforced everyday in American courtrooms.

I promise you that if you looked at arbitration agreements in the diamond trade in NY, MANY of them will have provisions based solely on arcane Jewish law.

Things that some people worry about, especially given real problems in the world today, are just pathetic.

[Joe Brower]

Florida Freeper

[snowsislander]

Judge Richard A. Nielsen certainly has a way with words.

I hope that the good voters of Hillsborough let him know what they think of his actions in August of 2014 when his next retention vote will occur.

[kbennkc]

What do you want to bet the parties stipulated to this order? That fact would ordinarily be stated in findings of fact and conclusions of law presented to the court in support of this order. Many judges will sign anything put in front of them if the parties are in agreement and it might clear up his schedule for some golf.

[Texas Eagle]

Isn’t there a sizeable Haitian population if Florida? What’s next? Are they going to be able to adjudicate according to Voodoo?

[Raycpa]

Did the parties agree to have Sharia apply in interpreting their agreement? If so, then what is the issue?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This does not violate the mythical doctrine of "separation of church and state" because Islam IS the state.

"Separation of church and state" means "separation of Christianity and state," so shut the hell up.

[Amish with an attitude]

Rath of God alert for the state of Florida!

[tutstar]

gnip

[jmaroneps37]

Remove him forthwith and void the ruling. Then disbar this jerk he has obviously failed to honor his oath to defend the Constitution.

[thouworm]

self-ping to shariah arbitration thread and comments by atty OldDeckHand on contract law.

keyworded “contractlaw”

[americanophile]

Well, this more of a judge simply issuing an order with regard to an arbitration agreement, in which the parties have agreed to be bound by sharia terms. The parties are bound to this, but the court is only recognizing that the settlement will be recognized by the court, not the arbitration rules. Still, sharia is so patently unfair to women that it's not a legitimate substitute for AAA provisions or any other ADR provisions that I can think of. This is a real quandary, because people in a private contract have the right to choose their own terms, but it puts the court in the position of having to recognize an agreement which may effectively be made under duress and at very least wherein one party has significant advantage over the other. Arbitration agreements will be the back door way of enforcing sharia with government sanction.

[NQuisitive]

Another article/opinion on this:

Outrage: Florida Judge Orders islamic Sharia Law be Used to Settle Dispute

http://www.redcounty.com/content/outrage-florida-judge-orders-islamic-sharia-law-be-used-settle-dispute

[hattend]

I don’t get it.

All it took for the muzzies to get a big toehold in this country and acquire political help to undermine our law is to knock down 2 buildings and kill 3000 Americans on our own soil?

My how we have changed as a people. Imagine our world in 1941... we’d all be speaking Japanese or German by now.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The UK started something similar just a year or two ago IIRC. Doesn’t take long for the US to follow the UK trends that are leading the West into the Abyss of Destruction!

[RaceBannon]

If this is true, it is the start of the revolution.