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

Authors

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

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1995

Publication Title

Zoning & Planning Law Report

Keywords

free exercise, zoning ordinances, First Amendment, historic preservation

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.

Comments

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

Repository Citation

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)

Volume

18

Issue

10