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Real Estate

Aug. 26, 2003

Church Wants Judge to Revisit Land-Use Case

BY SUSAN MCRAE Special to CREJ Clergy across the nation will be watching closely as lawyers for the Elsinore Christian Center try to persuade a Los Angeles federal judge to reconsider his finding that a law allowing churches to trump local land-use regulations is unconstitutional.

BY SUSAN MCRAE
Special to CREJ

Clergy across the nation will be watching closely as lawyers for the Elsinore Christian Center try to persuade a Los Angeles federal judge to reconsider his finding that a law allowing churches to trump local land-use regulations is unconstitutional.

Saying the law "redefined First Amendment rights," U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson became the first judge in the country to rule that parts of the 3-year-old Religious ...

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