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643 F.3d 419 (2011) The ELIJAH GROUP, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CITY OF LEON VALLEY, TEXAS, Defendant-Appellee. No. 10-50035. United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. June 10, 2011. *420 Luke William Goodrich (argued), Lori Halstead Windham, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Washington, DC, John Gregory George, Jr.

OPINION & ORDER KENNETH M. KARAS, District Judge: Plaintiff Rabbinical College of Tartikov, Inc. (“Tartikov”) is the owner of an approximately Í 00-acre parcel of land (the “Subject Property”) located within the Village of Pomona (the “Village”), upon which it seeks to build a rabbinical college that, in addition to providing all of the facilities neces

THAPAR, Circuit Judge, dissenting. Since the founding of this nation, religious groups have been able to "sit in safety under [their] own vine and figtree, [with] none to make [them] afraid." Letter from George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, R.I. (Aug. 18, 1790). In keeping with that promise over two hundred years later, Congress enacted the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) to prote

OPINION & ORDER KENNETH M. KARAS, District Judge: Plaintiffs bring challenges to certain zoning and environmental ordinances enacted by Defendant Village of Pomona (the “Village”), alleging they are unlawful under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Aet of 2000 (“RLUIPA”), 42

OPINION AND ORDER GEORGE C. SMITH, District Judge. This matter is before the Court on the parties cross-motions for summary judgment. (See Docs. 79 and 82). Responses have been filed and the motions are now ripe for review. For the reasons that follow, the Court GRANTS Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment and DENIES Plaintiffs Motion for Summary Judgment. I. BACK

OPINION AND ORDER KENNETH M. KARAS, District Judge. “This case presents the familiar conflict between the legal principle of non-discrimination and the political principle of not-in-my-backyard.” New Directions Treatment Servs. v. City of Reading, 490 F.3d 293, 295 (3d Cir.2007). Plaintiffs challenge certain zoning and environmental ordinances enacted by Defendant Village of Pomona, assert

JENNIFER WALKER ELROD, Circuit Judge: Until the eve of oral argument, the City of Holly Springs, Mississippi, had on its books a zoning ordinance that explicitly singled out “churches” for unfa *282 vorable treatment, albeit not for the outright banning of their presence fro

651 F.3d 1163 (2011) CENTRO FAMILIAR CRISTIANO BUENAS NUEVAS and Jorge Orozco, Pastor, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF YUMA, Defendant-Appellee. No. 09-15422. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted April 15, 2010. Filed July 12, 2011. *1165 Byron J. Babione, Alliance Defense Fund, S

ACCEPTED 04-15-00118-CV FOURTH COURT OF APPEAL