Showing posts with label Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cemetery. Show all posts
Thursday, December 08, 2022

Jewish Congregation Sues for Return of Deeds To 5000 Burial Plots

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 An unusual suit was filed this week in a New York state trial court by a Bukharian Jewish religious organization which is seeking to recove...
Friday, May 06, 2022

Church Cannot Remove Cremated Remains Over Objections Of Families

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In  Church of the Holy Spirit of Wayland v. Heinrich , (MA App., May 5, 2022), a Massachusetts state appellate court held that a church whic...
Monday, February 14, 2022

Relocation Of Native American Graves Can Proceed

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In Asher v. Clay County Board of Education ,  (ED KY, Feb. 11, 2022), a Kentucky federal district court refused to enjoin a school district ...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

9th Circuit Hears Arguments On Destruction of Native American Sacred Site

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Yesterday, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments ( video of full arguments ) in Slockish v. U.S. Department of Transpor...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Virginia County Allows Muslim Cemetery, Settling DOJ and Private Litigation

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The  Justice Department yesterday announced that it had filed a Notice of Dismissal  in United States v. Stafford County Virginia,  (ED VA,...
Monday, July 06, 2020

Michigan Mosque Sues Cemetery Over Need To Prepay For Grave Sites

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In May, suit was filed in a state trial court in Dearborn, Michigan by a local mosque which claims that a cemetery is attempting in breach o...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

DOJ Sues Virginia County Over Restrictions On Creating Muslim Cemetery

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Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal RLUIPA lawsuit against Stafford County, Virginia. The complaint ( full text ) in U...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Nazi Symbols On 75-Year Old POW Gravestones In VA Cemeteries Raise Protests

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Yesterday, bipartisan leadership of the House Veterans Affairs and Appropriations Committees wrote the Secretary of Veterans Affairs ( full ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Indian Tribe Sues Over Exclusion From Committee Dealing With Ancestors' Remains

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A lawsuit was filed yesterday in a Texas federal district court by a non-federally recognized Indian tribe against Texas officials involved ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Court Refuses To Order Return of WWII Remains To Supposed Next-of-Kin

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In Patterson v. Defense POW/ MIA Accounting Agency ,  (WD TX, July 29, 2019), a Texas federal district court refused to order return to plai...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Court Refuses To Dismiss Loss of Sepulcher Claims

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In  Gutnick v Hebrew Free Burial Society for the Poor of the City of Brooklyn , (Kings Cty.. NY Sup Ct., June 28, 2019), a New York trial c...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

DOJ Settles RLUIPA Zoning Claims With Texas City

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The Department of Justice announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement with the City of Farmersville, Texas to resolve allegations ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Families of WW II Vets May Move Ahead With Suit To Recover Remains

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In Patterson v. Defense POW/ MIA Accounting Agency ,  (WD TX, Oct. 23, 2018), a Texas federal district court refused to dismiss substantive ...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Church of England Court Permits Exhumation of Atheist From Hallowed Ground

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The Hertfordshire Mercury reports on an unusual decision in Britain last week by a Church of England Consistory Court.  In In re Chestnut C...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Court Says Tribe Has Standing, But Did Not Prove Its RFRA Claim

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As previously reported , in March an Oregon federal magistrate judge recommended dismissing a RFRA challenge to the destruction of sacred Na...
Tuesday, March 06, 2018

Destruction of Native American Burial Site Did Not Violate RFRA

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In Slockish v U.S. Federal Highway Administration ,  (D OR, March 2, 2018), an Oregon federal magistrate judge recommended dismissing a RFRA...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

New Jersey Limit On Activities of Religious Cemeteries Is Upheld

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In Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark v. Christie ,  (D NJ, Feb. 23, 2018), a New Jersey federal district court rejected due process and e...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Church, Not Town, Owns Cemetery

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In First Congregational Church of Harwich v. Eldredge ,  (MA Land Ct., Aug. 18, 2017), the Massachusetts Land Court held that the First Cong...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Belarus Court Refuses To Bar Construction On Former Jewish Cemetery Sites

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JTA reports that last week a court in Belarus  refused to grant an injunction against two construction projects on the sites of former Jewi...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Minnesota County Rejects Muslim Cemetery

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City Pages reports that in Chisago County, Minnesota, county commissioners on Dec. 21 by a vote of 3-2 rejected the recommendation of the c...