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The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), Pub. L. 106–274 (text), codified as 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq., is a United States federal law that protects individuals, houses of worship, and other religious institutions from discrimination in zoning and landmarking laws. [1]
President Bill Clinton signed the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 into law on September 22 of 2000. [1] This piece of legislation was intended to protect the free exercise of religion as it relates to institutionalized persons and land use. [1] One provision of RLUIPA pertaining to land use is the Equal Terms ...
The petitioner, Harvey Leroy Sossamon, III, was an inmate at the maximum security French M. Robertson Unit.In 2006, he sued the state of Texas and prison officials, in both their individual and official capacities, under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). [3]
Their basic constitutional right to worship has been reinforced by decades of court decisions and more recently by the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. However, several of these court rulings have also set limitations on these rights when prisoner demands are seen to impede prison safety and function.
The settlement with Ateres Bais Yaakov Academy of Rockland includes Clarkstown land-use board members taking classes on facets of the Religious Land Use and Institutional Persons Act, also known ...
Brent Pohlman, an attorney representing Jackson in religious land use cases, declined to comment on the settlement until it was approved by the courts. Mayor Michael Reina did not return a call ...
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Holt v. Hobbs, 574 U.S. 352 (2015), was an American legal case in which the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an Arkansas prison policy which prohibited a Muslim prisoner from growing a short beard in accordance with his religious beliefs violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).