Showing posts with label Mosques. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mosques. Show all posts
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Muslim Call to Prayer Can Be Amplified In New York City

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Yesterday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced  a new initiative to permit mosques to broadcast the call to public prayer on Fridays an...
Monday, October 03, 2022

Special Permit Requirement Only For Houses Of Worship Violates 1st Amendment

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In Omar Islamic Center Inc. v. City of Meriden ,  (D CT, Sept. 30, 2022), a Connecticut federal district court held that a zoning regulation...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Suit By Mosque Over Zoning Denials Can Move Ahead

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In Adam Community Center v. City of Troy , (ED MI, Sept. 28., 2022), a Michigan federal district court refused to dismiss RLUIPA and constit...
Sunday, April 03, 2022

NY AG Orders Anti-Muslim Group To Stop Spying On The Muslim Community

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 In an April 1  press release , New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that the office's Civil Right Bureau has sent a Cease ...
Friday, March 25, 2022

Michigan City Violated RLUIPA In Applying Special Requirements On Places Of Worship

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In United States v. City of Troy ,  (ED MI, March 18, 2022), a Michigan federal district court enjoined the city of Troy, Michigan from enfo...
Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Consent Decree Entered In Suit Claiming Religious Discrimination In Action Against Mosque Construction

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 A consent decree ( full text ) was entered yesterday in a Mississippi federal district court in Abraham House of God and Cemetery, Inc. v. ...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

Mississippi City Is Sued Over Refusal To Approve Mosque Site Plan

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Suit was filed yesterday in a Mississippi federal district court alleging that the City of Horn Lake denied approval of the site plan for a ...
Friday, August 27, 2021

No Judgment On Pleadings In Mosque's RLUIPA Lawsuit

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In Minhal Academy of Turnersville, Inc. v. Township of Washington , (D NJ, Aug. 25, 2021), a New Jersey federal district court denied plain...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Zoning Board Members Have Qualified Immunity In Mosque's Suit

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In Adam Community Center v. City of Troy ,  (ED MI, Aug. 26,2020), a Michigan federal district court held that members of a city's Zonin...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Oregon State Law Overrides County Limit On Zoning For Mosque

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 In Tarr v. Multnomah County ,  (OR App., Aug. 19, 2020), an Oregon state appellate court held that a state statute governing zoning for hou...
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...
Friday, January 17, 2020

6th Circuit: Mosque Is Not In Interstate Commerce Under Federal Arson Statute

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In United States v. Dogger t,  (6th Cir., Jan. 15, 2020), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed defendant's conviction for soli...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Court Upholds Removal of Mosque's Finance Director

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In  Islamic Center of Passaic, Inc. v. Salahuddin ,  (NJ App.,Jan. 13, 2020), a New Jersey appellate court upheld the removal of defendant a...
Thursday, December 12, 2019

Supreme Court Review Sought In City Council Speech Limits At Meeting On Mosque

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A petition for certiorari  ( full text ) was filed on Dec. 9 with the U.S. Supreme Court in  Youkhanna v. City of Sterling Heights. In the ...
Friday, September 20, 2019

Justice Department Sues Michigan City Over Mosque Zoning

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The Department of Justice announced yesterday that it has filed suit against the city of Troy, Michigan alleging that it has violated the R...
Friday, August 16, 2019

6th Circuit: City Did Not Ban All Mention of Religion At Council Meeting On Mosque Construction

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In Youkhanna v. City of Sterling Heights ,  (6th Cir., Aug. 14, 2019), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to the mann...
Friday, April 05, 2019

Court Says RLUIPA Claims By Mosque May Proceed

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In Adam Community Center v. City of Troy ,  (ED MI, April 3, 2019), a Michigan federal district court refused to dismiss RLUIPA substantial ...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Mosque Survives Motion To Dismiss Its RLUIPA and Constitutional Claims

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In Garden State Islamic Center v. City of Vineland, (D NJ, Dec. 12, 2018), a New Jersey federal district court refused to dismiss a mosque&#...
Friday, November 09, 2018

Suit Challenges Denial of Zoning Approval For Mosque

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A suit was filed in a Michigan federal district court yesterday against the city of Troy, Michigan challenging the denial of a zoning varian...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Indonesian Blasphemy Trial Underway For Woman Who Complained About Mosque Loudspeakers

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AP reports on the blasphemy trial of an ethnic Chinese woman in the Indonesian province of North Sumatra. The woman was charged after she c...