Cases by Topic Group : Religious Liberty Archive : Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP, Colorado Springs, CO

Cases by Topic Group
Zoning/Land Use Regulation, Sorted by Year, Click here to sort by Case Name.

Case Name	Year	Decision of the Court	Topic Group(s)
Corp. of Presiding Bishop of Church of Latter-Day Saints v. City of Porterville, 338 U.S 805 (appeal dismissed for want of substantial federal question)	1949	Upheld exclusion of churches from area reserved for single family homes.	Zoning/Land Use Regulation
Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520	1993	*Municipal ordinance targeting Santerians ritual sacrifice of animals violates Free Exercise Clause.	Discrimination Against Religion Zoning/Land Use Regulation
City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507	1997	Freedom Restoration Act to state and local law exceeds Congress' power under § 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which is limited to remedial or preventive legislation.	Incorporation by Fourteenth Amendment Religious Freedom Restoration Act Zoning/Land Use Regulation

Except for those entries preceded by an asterisk, Professor Carl H. Esbeck, Isabelle Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Columbia prepared and copyrighted the text under the column entitled "Decision of the Court." L. Martin Nussbaum, co-chair of the Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons Religious Institutions Group prepared the text under the column entitled "Decision of the Court" which is preceded by an asterisk. The Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP Religious Institutions Group gratefully acknowledges Professor Esbeck's permission to reprint the text which he prepared.

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