Garcia v. U.S. Dist. Court for the S. Dist. of Cal.

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• holding that the plaintiff church had demonstrated that its current facility was inadequate because the church’s “core beliefs” required it to ■assemble in one worship service, yet it had to hold three Sunday services in its existing facility
• holding that a “substantial burden” must be “oppressive” to a “significantly great extent”
• explaining that a substantial burden “must impose a significantly great restriction or onus upon [religious] exercise” (quoting San Jose Christian Coll. v. City of Morgan Hill, 360 F.3d 1024, 1034 (9th Cir. 2004))
• explaining that a substantial burden “must impose a significantly great restriction or onus 22 upon [religious] exercise” (quoting San Jose Christian Coll. v. City of Morgan Hill, 360 F.3d 1024, 1034 (9th Cir. 2004))
• explaining that a substantial burden is one that is “oppressive to a significantly great extent” such that “the governmental authority puts substantial pressure on an adherent to modify his behavior and to violate his beliefs”
• finding a substantial burden could exist where there was testimony that “no other suitable sites exist[ed] in the City to house the Church’s expanded operations”

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