Legal Opinion
Opulent Life Church v. City of Holly Springs
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 27, 2012No. 12-60052PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JENNIFER WALKER ELROD,
Circuit Judge:
Until the eve of oral argument, the City of Holly Springs, Mississippi, had on its books a zoning ordinance that explicitly singled out “churches” for unfa vorable treatment, albeit not for the outright banning of their presence from particular locations. The night before we heard argument, Holly Springs amended its ordinance, this time to ban “[c]hurches, temples, synagogues, mosques, and other religious facilities” from its historic and centrally located courthouse square. Opulent Life Church— which has leased property on the courthouse square but still…
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