2nd Circuit Court
Amish Families to Sue N.Y. Town Over Building Code Enforcement Issues
Posted Nov 10, 2008, 01:58 pm CST
By Martha Neil
Contending that their First Amendment right to religious freedom is being abridged by too-zealous enforcement of a New York municipality's building codes, a group of Amish families plans to file a federal suit against Morristown.
"Lori H. Windham, an attorney for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty of Washington, D.C., said Friday that a federal lawsuit against the town and its code enforcement officer will be filed shortly in U.S. District Court Northern District of New York," reports the Watertown Daily Times. The case reportedly could be of national import.
She says the families' religious freedom is being violated by the town's insisting that they must install smoke detectors, submit engineering plans and allow inspections of… Continue reading...
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