Legal Opinion
Third Church of Christ, Scientist v. City of New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 1, 2010No. Docket 08-6022-cvPublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:
The district court (Batts, J.) issued a permanent injunction pursuant to the equal-terms provision of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc et seq., prohibiting the City from restricting Plaintiff-Appellee Church’s use of its facility for private, catered events. In so doing, it held that the City allows secular institutions in the Church’s neighborhood to conduct the same types of events. The City urges us to dissolve the injunction because, it claims, the Church and the secular institutions are not similarly situated.…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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3Cited by31 opinions
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