So holds Decide Evelyn Padin (D.N.J.) in as we speak’s Mendham Methodist Church v. Morris County. The court docket applies latest Supreme Courtroom instances, akin to Carson v. Makin (2022) and Espinoza v. Montana Division of Income (2020), which maintain that “a State violates the Free Train Clause when it excludes non secular observers from in any other case out there public advantages.” And it within the course of rejects the New Jersey Supreme Courtroom’s resolution in Freedom From Spiritual Basis v. Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders (N.J. 2018), which interpreted the New Jersey Structure as mandating such exclusion; FFRF, the court docket holds, is inconsistent with the newer Espinoza and Carson instances.
This oversimplifies issues in some measure, but it surely ought to supply a great common abstract. For extra, see the complete opinion. Mark M. Roselli of Roselli Griegel Lozier & Lazzaro, PC represents plaintiffs.
