"Land Use Regulation and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: What Are the Courts Saying?" by Alan Weinstein

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Land Use Regulation and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: What Are the Courts Saying?

Zoning & Planning Law Report

Alan Weinstein, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University

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Article

Publication Date

1-1-1995

Keywords

free exercise,
zoning ordinances,
First Amendment,
historic preservation

Disciplines

First Amendment,
Land Use Law and
Urban Studies

Abstract

This article examines the effect that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act has had on court challenges to land use regulations that allegedly burden the free exercise of religion, and analyzes whether RFRA is likely to become the determining factor in such cases.

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Reprinted in A. Forrest, ed., 1996 Zoning and Planning Law Handbook 835 (Clark, Boardman, Callaghan, 1996)

Citation Information

Alan C. Weinstein, Land Use Regulation and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: What Are the Courts Saying? 18 Zoning & Planning Law Report No. 10 (1995)