Fifth Circuit Clarifies RLUIPA Equal Terms Analysis & Vacates and Remands...
Opulent Life Church was founded in February 2011, with an initial 18 members, easily accommodated in a facility with a capacity for 25 people that the church leased in the City of Holly Springs,...
View ArticleSecond Circuit: Plaintiffs RLUIPA Claims Barred By Doctrine of Res Judicata
The doctrine of res judicata bars parties and those in privity with them from relitigating issues that were or could have been raised in a previous action. Claims are barred under this doctrine if the...
View ArticleMississippi District Court Issues Preliminary Injunction against City for...
Last week, we reported on the case of Opulent Life Church v. City of Holly Springs in which the Citys amended zoning ordinance distinguishes between religious and non-religious uses, prohibiting...
View ArticleRLUIPA Redux: International Municipal Lawyers Association Program
On November 13, 2012, several authorities on RLUIPA will be participating in a teleconference with the International Municipal Lawyers Association. Professor Dan Mandelker and Dwight Merriam will be...
View ArticleCity of San Leandro and International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Settle...
After more than five years of RLUIPA litigation in federal courts, the City of San Leandro in California and the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (ICFG) reached a settlement agreement.San...
View ArticleThe Effects of RLUIPAs Land Use Provisions on Local Governments
Professor Alan Weinstein, of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, has published a new article The Effect of RLUIPAs Land Use Provisions on Local Governments with the Fordham Urban Law Journal. Here...
View ArticleShopping Center Owners RLUIPA Claims Arising from Citys Refusal to Grant...
In March 2009, the City of Brewer, Maine granted the Rock Church of Greater Bangor, Inc. a building permit to renovate space and operate a church in 4,500 square feet of a building it leased from Dana...
View ArticleDenial of Prisoners Request for Cardboard Replica of Thors Hammer, Outside...
Asatru is a polytheistic religion that originated several centuries ago in Northern Europe. Asatru is a decentralized religion with no spiritual leader or governing religious authority. Although Asatru...
View ArticleChurch Using Hallucinogenic Amazonian Tea Settles RLUIPA Suit with Sante Fe...
We previously posted about the case involving the O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal Church (UDV), which brought a federal lawsuit alleging violations under RLUIPA against the Board of...
View ArticleNeighbors Seeking to Intervene in Federal RLUIPA Suit in the District of...
We previously reported on the case out of Norwalk, Connecticut involving the Al Madany Islamic Center of Norwalks special permit application to construct a 27,000 square-foot mosque and multi-purpose...
View ArticleRLUIPA Claim Involving Jewish Cemetery Not Ripe for Review
Twersky v. Town of Hempstead (E.D.N.Y. 2012) involves the construction of an ohel in a Jewish cemetery. An ohel is a stand-alone structure customarily built over the graves of righteous scholars and...
View ArticleRLUIPA Claim Lurks as New Jersey Planning Board Mulls Mosque Application
While even National Public Radio continues to discuss whether New Jersey is more aptly described as the “Garden State” or the “Armpit of America,” New Jersey may soon have a new claim to fame as the...
View ArticleCalifornia City Grants Conditional Use Permit to Church Ministering to Homeless
Mercy Way Rescue, formerly known as F.A.I.T.H. (Feeding and Inspiring the Homeless), a church whose mission it is to “spread the good, new and unconditional love, grace and unmerited mercy of Jesus to...
View ArticleRLUIPA Article: Individualized vs. Generalized Assessments: Why RLUIPA Should...
The Duke Law Journal recently published Individualized vs. Generalized Assessments: Why RLUIPA Should Not Apply to Every Land-Use Request, by Katie M. Ertmer. What is an “individualized assessment”...
View ArticleCity of San Leandro and International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Settle...
After more than five years of RLUIPA litigation in federal courts, the City of San Leandro in California and the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (ICFG) reached a settlement agreement.San...
View Article“The Effects of RLUIPA’s Land Use Provisions on Local Governments”
Professor Alan Weinstein, of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, has published a new article – The Effect of RLUIPA’s Land Use Provisions on Local Governments– with the Fordham Urban Law Journal. Here...
View ArticleShopping Center Owner’s RLUIPA Claims Arising from City’s Refusal to Grant...
In March 2009, the City of Brewer, Maine granted the Rock Church of Greater Bangor, Inc. a building permit to renovate space and operate a church in 4,500 square feet of a building it leased from Dana...
View ArticleDenial of Prisoner’s Request for Cardboard Replica of Thor’s Hammer, Outside...
Asatru is a polytheistic religion that originated several centuries ago in Northern Europe. Asatru is a decentralized religion with no spiritual leader or governing religious authority. Although Asatru...
View ArticleChurch Using Hallucinogenic Amazonian Tea Settles RLUIPA Suit with Sante Fe...
We previously posted about the case involving the O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal Church (UDV), which brought a federal lawsuit alleging violations under RLUIPA against the Board of...
View ArticleNeighbors Seeking to Intervene in Federal RLUIPA Suit in the District of...
We previously reported on the case out of Norwalk, Connecticut involving the Al Madany Islamic Center of Norwalk’s special permit application to construct a 27,000 square-foot mosque and multi-purpose...
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