A brief excerpt from the 6500+-word opinion in Zikar Holdings LLC v. Ruhland, decided Dec. 26 by Judge Jeffrey Bryan (D. Minn.):
Plaintiffs allege that Defendant City of Lino Lakes … and two of its City Council members, Defendants Michael Ruhland and Christopher Lyden, enacted a one-year moratorium on development in a discrete area of the City where Plaintiffs had proposed to build a residential development that would include a masjid (mosque), and that they did so because of their discriminatory animus toward Islam and Muslims.
Plaintiffs assert that, in doing so, Defendants have violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA), the Free Exercise Clause …, the Equal Protection Clause …, and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). In their motion for a preliminary injunction, Plaintiffs ask the Court to enjoin the City from enforcing the moratorium, among other things….
A brief excerpt of the background factual allegations:
