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FREEDOM BAPT. CHURCH OF DEL. v. TP. OF MIDDLETOWN

No. CIV.A. 01-5345.

204 F.Supp.2d 857 (2002)

FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH OF DELAWARE COUNTY and Chris Keay, Pastor, v. TOWNSHIP OF MIDDLETOWN, et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

May 8, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Theodore Hoppe, Jr., Shields & Hoppe, LLP, Median, PA, Anthony R. Picarello, Jr. (argued), The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs.

Jennifer L. Holsten-Maddaloni (argued), Holsten and Associates, Media, PA, for defendants.

James D. Todd, Jr. (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Federal Programs Branch, Washington, DC, for intervener-Government.

MEMORANDUM

DALZELL, District Judge.

On September 22, 2000, the President signed the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, Pub.L. No. 106-274, 114 Stat. 803-807, codified at 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000cc-2000cc-5 (hereinafter the "RLUIPA"), which Congress enacted in order "[t]o protect religious liberty, and for other purposes." Freedom Baptist Church of Delaware County and its Pastor, Chris Keay, invoke this new statute against...

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