United States Eleventh Circuit

Zoning ordinance provision excluding churches and synagogues from locations where private clubs and lodges are permitted violates the equal terms provision of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. Summary judgment for the town is reversed and remanded.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/21/2004
• Published 04/21/2004

Judges

• WILSON, Circuit Judge:, Before WILSON and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG , Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Beverly A. Pohl, Bruce Rogow, Bruce S. Rogow, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Steven D. Ginsburg, Natalie J. Carlos, Adorno & Yoss, P.A., Miami, FL, for Town of Surfside., Derek L. Gaubatz, Washington, DC, for Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Amicus Curiae., Sarah E. Harrington, R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for U.S., Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nathan Lewin, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo PC, Washington, DC, Simon Schwarz, Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants.