United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment for municipality is affirmed over a religious group's arguments that the municipality's involuntary annexation of the church's property, enactment of a public assembly ordinance and denial of a special use permit to allow the group to construct and occupy a church violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/02/2006
• Decided 11/07/2006
• Published 11/07/2006

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before CUDAHY, RIPPLE and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andy R. Norman (argued), John W. Mauck, Mauck & Baker, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Samuel W. Witwer, Jr. (argued), Witwer & Waldron, Evanston, IL, for Appellants Northern Illinois Conference of United Methodist Church and C. Joseph Sprague.


• For Appellees:
  
• Adam M. Kingsley (argued), Holland & Knight, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.