The Archdiocese of Newark has filed a suit against Gov. Chris Christie over a new law that bars it from selling headstones to parishioners intending to be buried in its Catholic cemeteries.
The suit claims that state lawmakers’ recent amendment of the Religious Corporations Law, N.J.S.A. 16:1-7.1, signed into law by Christie on March 23, lacks any rational basis and was purely a response to lobbying on behalf of secular companies that sell monuments.
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