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· 9/27/2012

Opulent Life Church v. City of Holly Springs

Citations

  • 697 F.3d 279
  • 83 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1068
  • 2012 WL 4458234
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 20283

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that, “[w]hether frivolous or not,” the argument that plaintiff’s “‘long litigation delay’ suggests it is not suffering irreparable harm” is “unconvincing on these facts”
  • concluding that a city’s repeal of an ordinance the night before oral argument did not moot the plaintiff’s challenges to the ordinance
  • holding that while states may not be held liable for money damages under RLUIPA, municipalities and counties may
  • holding that a 4 Case No. 22-5391, Be the Bush Recovery Ministries v. Coffee Cnty., Tenn. claim under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act sustained a presumption of irreparable injury
  • explaining that the Eleventh Circuit test “treats all land use regulations that facially differentiate between religious and nonreligious institutions as violations of the Clause.”
  • explaining that “[a] plaintiff seeking both injunctive relief and money damages can continue to pursue the case, even after the request for an equitable remedy is rendered moot”

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Judges: Wiener, Elrod, Southwick

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