Legal Opinion
Miles Christi Religious Order v. Township of Northville
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 21, 2010No. 09-1618PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSutton, J., joined by Kethledge, J.,
BATCHELDER, C.J. (pp. 542-54), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
A religious order and two of its members filed this action under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act and the Federal and State Constitutions against the Township of Northville and its officials based on a dispute over the application of several local zoning ordinances to a residence that the order owns in the township. The district court concluded that the suit was unripe, and so do we.
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Since 2002, Miles Christi, an international religious order, has owned a five-bedroom…
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