Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Evanston, Inc. v. City of Evanston

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a higher standard of review was warranted due to the city drawing a classification that disadvantaged a constitutionally suspect class, a religious institution, but acknowledging that other courts had used a rational basis test
• noting that “few other courts have opted to apply strict scrutiny to zoning ordinances in analogous cases”
• noting disagreement about whether zoning regulation of the location of a church implicates speech but following Cornerstone Bible Church
• pending construction of new church, members continued to hold services at current location
• \The court acknowledges that few other courts have opted to apply strict scrutiny to zoning ordinances in analogous cases.\
• ordinance that limited locations of religious institutions regulated speech not non-expressive conduct for First Amendment freedom of speech claim

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