Hobby Lobby’s “passing strange” interpretation of RLUIPA: an unlikely, but potentially dramatic, impact on land use law?

Receiving almost no coverage—scratch that, absolutely no coverage—in yesterday’s Hobby Lobby decision was that an important part of the case turns on the relationship between the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). The Court’s opinion could, perhaps inadvertently, substantially affect not only the availability of contraception under the Affordable Care Act, but also religious land use claims by corporations.    Read more…….