A federal judge has handed down a mixed ruling on a lawsuit charging that changes made in the Village of Pomona’s zoning and environmental ordinances were intended to discriminate against organizers of a rabbinical college.
Southern District Judge Kenneth Karas (See Profile) allowed facial challenges to the ordinances to proceed, saying that advocates of the proposed Congregation Rabbinical College of Tratikov Inc. had sufficiently alleged a “substantial burden” on the exercise of religion under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act (RLUIPA).
