All part of AmeriKan JU$TU$ in the 21st-century:
"Conn. panel asks high court to toss synagogue suit; Historic district rejected ‘07 plan to add onto house" Associated Press February 18, 2015
LITCHFIELD, Conn. — A historic district in Connecticut being sued for rejecting plans for a synagogue in 2007 is asking the US Supreme Court to throw out the lawsuit.
The Litchfield Historic District Commission and the Borough of Litchfield asked the Supreme Court on Monday to hear the case. The move comes after the lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge, then reinstated by the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan in September.
Chabad Lubavitch of Northwest Connecticut accused the historic district commission of religious discrimination when it rejected plans for an addition to an 1870s Victorian house near the Litchfield Green to create a synagogue and rabbi’s home. The commission said the 17,000-square-foot addition was too large and out of character with other buildings in the historic district.
Chabad Lubavitch officials disputed the commission’s square-footage figure, saying it included the basement and attic. The synagogue officials said the footprint of the two-story house and addition would be less than 4,000 square feet and the total area of the project should be listed as less than 8,000 square feet.
The commission approved Chabad Lubavitch’s plans to use the same 2,600-square-foot house for its activities without expanding it.
Otherwise known as a worldwide rabid Zionist Jew organization and cover for Mossad (served as base for Mumbai).
A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court ruled that federal Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven was wrong to dismiss the lawsuit. The judges said Hall erred by ruling that part of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act that bars government interference in religious exercise did not apply to the case.
I wonder what would have happened had a mosque been proposed.
The appeals court panel, however, upheld Hall’s other rulings in the case, including her dismissals of Chabad Lubavitch’s claims that its constitutional rights to freedom of religion and equal protection were violated.
The commission and other defendants ‘‘seek to have neutral, municipal historic district regulations applied to religiously used real estate in the same manner as property used for secular purposes,’’ their request to the Supreme Court says. ‘‘In the Second Circuit, the law now grants religious land use applicants a massive advantage unobtainable by others.’’
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Another suit coming from Connecticut:
"A Wallingford man is suing a Southington restaurant and bar claiming "permanent, serious" injury after being thrown from a mechanical bull. Steven M. Saleski, in a Feb. 6 lawsuit, sued Meadow Muffins LLC, which owns the mechanical bull, and T.C.B. LLC, which owns the restaurant, the Cadillac Ranch Restaurant. The lawsuit, which was filed in Meriden Superior Court, says Saleski was thrown from the mechanical bull in July 2013, causing him to "violently hit his head on the landing pad and suffer painful, permanent, serious injuries." Saleski says his fall "was caused by the carelessness and negligence" of inadequate padding and placement of the machine near a wall. The Hartford Courant and Record-Journal report that Saleski's lawyer and the restaurant's owner lawyer could not be reached for comment Monday."
Some bull is certainly being thrown around in my Globe.
NDU:
"Members and alumni of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Wesleyan University have filed a discrimination lawsuit against the school over a recent decision that requires all residential fraternities to become coeducational within three years. Wesleyan announced the policy in September after several highly publicized incidents at fraternity houses, including allegations of sexual assault. Delta Kappa Epsilon said in a statement Thursday that it is seeking a temporary injunction in Superior Court after learning that students would not be given the option of housing at on-campus single-sex fraternities during the 2015-16 school year (AP)."
Judaism is a fraternity of sorts.
