WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
Joseph Nocella, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Harmeet K. Dhillon., Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, announced today an agreement with the Village of Atlantic Beach, New York to resolve allegations that it violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) by enacting and enforcing zoning provisions that treat religious land uses worse than comparable secular uses.
"The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act prohibits local governments from imposing land use regulations that p...