By Max Pizarro • 11/22/16 3:21pm
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Bernards Township, alleging a violation of the Religious
Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA). The suit comes in response to the township’s denial of zoning approval to allow the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge to build a mosque on land it owns. At the time of the Islamic Society’s zoning request, construction of places of worship was a matter of right.
