Episcopal Student Foundation v. City of Ann Arbor

How courts have described this case

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• “Taking the evidence in a light most favorable to the Plaintiff, the Court has no reason to doubt Plaintiff’s religious beliefs are sincerely held, and will not delve further into those beliefs at this stage.”
• “[Cjourts have been far more reluctant to find a violation where compliance with the challenged regulation makes the practice of one’s religion more difficult or expensive, but the regulation is not inherently inconsistent with the litigant’s beliefs.”
• “[C]ourts have been far more reluctant to find a violation where compliance with the challenged regulation makes the practice of one’s religion more difficult or expensive, but the regulation is not inherently inconsistent with the litigant’s beliefs.”
• denial of permit to demolish building that was inadequate to fulfill plaintiff's religious needs did not substantially burden free exercise rights because plaintiff's needs could be addressed by leasing new space or by expanding or renovating the building

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).