New Jersey Mosque Wins Temporary Injunction

On Wednesday, a New Jersey federal district judge issued a temporary injunction preventing the Township of Wayne, NJ from exercising its eminent domain powers to seize for open space land on which a Muslim congregation had planned to build a mosque. A release by the Becket Fund yesterday details the history of the dispute between the Albanian Associated Fund and a community group opposing its planned construction of a place of worship. (See prior posting.)