Two months after Bernards Township agreed to a $3.25 million settlement of litigation over its denial of a mosque application, the settlement has been challenged in two suits by a conservative religious group.
One suit by the Thomas More Law Center seeks a declaration that the settlement in Islamic Society of Basking Ridge v. Bernards Township is unconstitutional because it barred the board from taking residents’ comments about Islam or Muslims at a planning board hearing on the mosque application. The group also filed another suit claiming the town’s adoption of the settlement violated the Open Public Meetings Act.
