Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Eagle Cove Camp & Conference Center, Inc.’s request that it review the Seventh Circuit’s decision rejecting Eagle Cove’s claims that the County of Oneida and the Town of Woodboro violated RLUIPA when denying its application to operate a year-round Bible camp on 34 acres of land it owned on Squash Lake in Woodboro, Wisconsin. You can read a summary of the Seventh Circuit’s decision here and a recap of Eagle Cove’s petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court here. The high court has never considered a RLUIPA case in the land use context, though it has recently agreed to consider a prisoner case (read more here).
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