New York City treated a Park Avenue church differently than other institutions when it responded to an e-mail campaign from powerful members of the community by blocking the church from allowing a catering business to hold events on church property, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Upholding a lower court’s decision to enjoin the Department of Buildings from revoking its initial decision to allow the catered events, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit handed the Third Church of Christ, Scientist, a victory by finding “that the formal difference the City asserts” between the church and nonreligious institutions “cannot protect its course of conduct.”
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