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New Blog Tracks Religious Land Use Law

By Robert J. Ambrogi

A blog launched this month by a Michigan law firm may be the first devoted exclusively to the federal <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/usc_sec_42_00002000--cc000-.html">Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act</a>, a 2000 law designed to prevent local governments from making land-use decisions that disfavor religious groups, which are exempt from paying property taxes. <br /><br />The <a href="http://www.attorneysforlanduse.com/RLUIPABlog/">RLUIPA Blog</a> is written by lawyers from <a href="http://www.tomkiwdalton.com/">Tomkiw Dalton</a>, a Royal Oak firm that concentrates in land use law. In an <a href="http://www.attorneysforlanduse.com/RLUIPABlog/?p=16">introductory post</a>, partner Daniel P. Dalton, said, "My objective is to provide regular updates of cases and commentaries that address RLUIPA and related land use cases, both from the perspective of a religious entity, as well as a local community. I will also comment on religious governance issues, with an emphasis on current challenges being faced in the operation and structure of a church."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3958829-2048134269604219847?l=www.legaline.com%2Flawsites.html' alt='' /></div>

Full post as published by Lawsites on March 01, 2010 (boomark / email).