Template:Did you know nominations/Muneer Awad


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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 11:34, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Muneer Awad

 * ... that Muneer Awad successfully sued the state of Oklahoma to prevent it from forbidding state judges to decide cases using Islamic law?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/RZ Gruis

Created by Alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk). Self nominated at 23:50, 1 March 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg The article is about a lawsuit filed in Oklahoma, not Georgia.
 * And while the article is the name of the attorney "Muneer Awad", there are only 5 sentences about him apart from this lawsuit. I did notice in this source that the attorney was not licensed to practice in the state of Oklahoma.  Would this article benefit by a page name move to the title of the lawsuit itself?
 * It would be good to see more specifics on the lawsuit, such as the name and/or number of the Oklahoma state amendment and statics on the voter approval rather than "overwhelmingly". Also, the resulting lawsuit must have had a name "Awad v. State of Oklahoma", or whatever it was.
 * What is the current status of the lawsuit after it was upheld in a court of appeals in 2012? Does Oklahoma have plans to appeal it higher up?  Will it end up in the United State Supreme Court?
 * — Maile (talk) 13:37, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Doh! Oklahoma.  I'll get on it right away.  He was the plaintiff rather than the attorney, and there is a name.  Be back with you in a few hours.  Thanks for your careful reading.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 14:55, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, I put in more details about the election and about the case, although unfortunately I had to go behind some paywalls to do it. I also added a little info about Awad's role in CAIR-NYC's opposition to Pamela Geller's subway ad campaigns.  I'm not sure the article should be only about the case, because there is a reasonable amount of other info about Awad, although I do take your point.  He's broadly but not deeply covered in relation to the Geller thing, which I think ought to be in there too.  The big question is what's the status of the case.  I can't find any information about it.  Oklahoma seems to have dropped it, but I can find no source that specifically says so.  I did find a source that says the US Supreme Court found it unconstitutional, but since that's from 2012 I think the reporter is just confused and I'd rather not rely on it.  I don't want to say anything like "so far the case has not been brought to the Supreme Court" because I don't really know; maybe they denied cert and no one wrote about it. A flurry of 2013 law review articles don't say one way or the other.  I'd rather say nothing than draw a conclusion from silence.  Anyway, I hope I've addressed your concerns.  Please let me know.  Thanks again&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 15:48, 3 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Good 2 go. Created on March 1, 2014, and has 2649 characters (0 words) "readable prose size". The article is much better now with the additional edits. I ran Duplication Detector on all the sourcing and found no issues of concern.  In this case, I don't think it's necessary to duplicate the hook's exact phrasing in the article, because the entire article and its sourcing is about the successful lawsuit. — Maile  (talk) 19:00, 3 March 2014 (UTC)