Justice Department Files Lawsuit Alleging Religious Discrimination Against the City of Walnut, California
Justice Department Files Lawsuit Alleging Religious Discrimination Against the City of Walnut, California
The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the city of Walnut, Calif., alleging that the city violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), when, in 2008, it denied a conditional use permit to the Chung Tai Zen Center so that it could build and operate a Buddhist house of worship at property it then owned in the city.