The Michigan Court of Appeals has recently shot down a challenge to Michigan’s long-recognized clergy-congregant privilege. The court ruled that the presence of the minor
Last month, an Islamic school from Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the Township’s denial of the school’s request for a zoning
Alliance Defense Fund’s Bryan Beauman, reports the Supreme Court announced its unanimous decision in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC. This case concerns the “ministerial exception” to an
Daniel Dalton was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article by Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “When the Zoning Board Closes Your Church: The new battleground in
The second circuit was recently presented with issue of defining the equal terms provision of RLUIPA but chose not to given that it reached a
In a published opinion released just hours ago, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals released its decision in International Church of the Foresquare Gospel v.
Congress provided a separate section of RLUIPA, known as the “equal terms” provision at 42 USC 15 2000cc-(b)(1), which provides that: “No government shall impose
The term “substantial burden” in RLUIPA has confused and divided lower courts since it first appeared in the Act
One recent trend in religious land use issues that we have found is when a community effectively excludes a religious use through zoning. The typical
Salvation Temple Church, is a Christian Church that entered into a purchase agreement for the purchase of property known as 25000 N. Chrysler Dr., Hazel
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