Adams v. Shell Oil Co.

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• concluding that board of trustees and related entity defendants could be sued along with the city for violations of § 1983 where board was final decision maker with respect to accepting or denying the plaintiff's zoning application
• finding that board of trustees possessed final authority to grant or deny plaintiff’s rezoning application, and as such, was the “policymaking body within the Township with respect to such matters.”
• denying individual board trustees defendants' motion to dismiss based on qualified immunity where complaint alleged that the individual trustees acted for the purposes of discriminating against religion
• dismissing a RLUIPA unreasonable limits claim but allowing a substantial burden claim to survive
• “Plaintiff’s claim against Individual Defendants to the extent they are sued in their official capacities are redundant as Plaintiff also is suing the Township.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).