[Svartalfiar]

Interesting case here.. A nice mix of arbitration, contract law, and sharia meshed together in a Florida court. Wonder how the court will apply civil law to the sharia law contained within the contract between the parties.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

BS.

The parties freely entered into a contract specifying Sharia law for arbitration of disagreements, which they had every right to do.

Evidently one of the parties changed their minds, which they are not free to do.

LESSON: Don't sign a contract that you do not intend to honor.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Grrrrr.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The judge should be fired.

[utherdoul]

just stone both of them to death. If they signed the agreement under sharia law thats where it usually tends to end up anyway.

[Jim W N]

Did the judge actually order Sharia law to be implemented? I presume this would be unconstitutional and if so, I would also think impeachment might be in order.

[allmost]

Nice precedent. Public stonings to follow.

[texmexis best]

It actually is not a very interesting case. It should be decided by Sharia law, and differences in the Presbyterian Church should be decided by Presbyterian law.

This law suit should never have been brought by the plaintiffs.

[plain talk]

What happens when this “contract” of using Sharia law results in someone carrying out an illegal punishment such as amputation or stoning? sharia law involves specific punishments. So this notion of two parties just honoring a contract falls apart when they start lobbing stones.

[krobara18]

There have already been a number of threads on this topic over the past few days. It’s a non-story. as actual lawers have posted in the other threads, all this case is saying is that if you agree beforehand to binding aribtration, you have to go through with it. In this case both parties agreed to abide by shariah beforehand. As with any binding aribration, the courts have nothing to do with the results other than to essentially say “you agreed to the aribtration beforehand, now you have to go through with it”. This is no different than binding aritration that follows jewish law - and as the lawers said in the the other threads, cases exactly like this happen literally every day.

Also note, that this still doesn’t allow the arbirtator to decide anything that would not normally be allowed under US or state law (so no chopping off of hands or anything like that).

[ZULU]

Another TRIUMPH for the Bush Klan!!!!

The Judge was an appointee of Governor “Jeb” Bush’s!

The Bushes - the gift that never stops giving - to liberals.