Federal Court Rejects Removal Of Colo. Church Zoning Challenge
The Religion Clause Blog reports:
Friday’s Aspen (CO) Times reports on the long battle by Grace Church in Emma, Colorado to build a new building on Highway 82. In 2005, Pitkn County commissioners denied the church’s application, but then reversed their decision after the church filed a federal lawsuit under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
Unhappy with this reversal, local citizens apparently sued the commissions in state court which the commissioners attempted to remove to Federal Court.