Stuart Circle Parish v. Board of Zoning Appeals

How courts have described this case

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• holding Pullman abstention inappropriate where “plaintiffs have not asked the Court to interpret the City Code. Thus, abstention would not serve to avoid an erroneous interpretation of state law”
• “It is well established that there is no substan- tial burden placed on an individual’s free exercise of religion where a law or policy merely ‘operates so as to make the practice of [the individual’s] religious beliefs more expensive.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).