It was a simple case of religious discrimination, or so the Bloch family thought. They had lived in a Chicago condominium for nearly 30 years and always had a Mezuzah1 affixed to the entrance door of each of their three units.
But in 2004 everything changed. The condominium’s board began enforcing a “hallway rule” enacted three years earlier that it claimed prohibited the continued presence of the Blochs’ Mezuzot. They insisted it prohibited the placement of “[m]ats, boots, shoes, carts, or objects of any sort…outside Unit entrance doors” and therefore also applied to religious symbols such as Mezuzot. They ignored the fact that although the rule had been in effect for three years, no one previously interpreted it to prohibit the display of religious articles.
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