Revisiting the RLUIPA issue, the Ninth Circuit held in Guru Nanak Sikh Society of Yuba City v. County of Sutter, 456 F.3d 978 (9th Cir., Aug. 1, 2006) that a local land use decision regarding a church’s proposed use of its property violated the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000. While it is not a groundbreaking case, it illustrates the competing dynamics when a church’s desires to use its property clashes with local land use rules. My summary of the case is posted here.