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· 1/11/2008

B.H. ex rel. E.D.E. v. R.E.

Citations

  • 988 So. 2d 565
  • 2008 Ala. Civ. App. LEXIS 1
  • 2008 WL 109462

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that NHPA requires federal agencies only to survey properties that “may be affected by the project”
  • refusing to extend “§ 7 (a)(2) protection, including the § 7(d) limitation” to all “vulnerable” species (emphasis added)
  • finding no impermissible burden on religious rights despite Navajo and Hopi plaintiffs’ contentions that development of the Snow Bowl on the San Francisco Peaks (federal land
  • government actions that merely offend or cast doubt on religious beliefs do not violate Free Exercise Clause
  • “We are aware that subsequent legislative history is not controlling evidence of the intent underlying previously enacted legislation.”
  • “Many government actions may offend religious believers, and may cast doubt upon the veracity of religious beliefs, but unless such actions penalize faith, they do not burden religion.”

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Judges: Thompson, Pittman, Bryan, Thomas, Moore

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