On November 13, 2012, several authorities on RLUIPA will be participating in a teleconference with the International Municipal Lawyers Association.Professor Dan Mandelker and Dwight Merriam will be moderating the discussion between Steven Elrod, Dan Dalton, and John Bauer on all things RLUIPA.

Here are the details:
“The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act continues to provide religious institutions leverage in getting local land use approvals, while causing consternation for municipalities which often find it difficult to see bright lines in a somewhat murky statute. Get ready for some verbal fisticuffs as we match up Steven (the Sledgehammer) Elrod of Holland & Knight, the highly-regarded defender of all things governmental, against Dan the Devastator Dalton of Dalton Tomich Pensler, widely-known for his successful litigation of religious rights claims. And to take it up a notch, we throw in John Boom-Boom Bauer of Robinson & Cole LLP in Boston, who has lived to tell the tale of taking on an evangelical church determined to build a church twice the size of a Home Depot. Join us as the sparks fly. “
You can register for the teleconference here.Dont miss it.
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Evan J. Seeman is a lawyer in Robinson+Cole’s Hartford office and focuses his practice on land use, real estate, environmental, and regulatory matters, representing local governments, developers and advocacy groups. He has spoken and written about RLUIPA, and was a lead author of…

Evan J. Seeman is a lawyer in Robinson+Cole’s Hartford office and focuses his practice on land use, real estate, environmental, and regulatory matters, representing local governments, developers and advocacy groups. He has spoken and written about RLUIPA, and was a lead author of an amicus curiae brief at the petition stage before the United States Supreme Court in a RLUIPA case entitled City of San Leandro v. International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.

Evan serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the APA’s Planning & Law Division. He also serves as the Chair of the Planning & Zoning Section of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section, and is the former Co-Chair of its Municipal Law Section. He has been named to the Connecticut Super Lawyers® list as a Rising Star in the area of Land Use Law for 2013 and 2014. He received his B.A. in political science and Russian studies (with honors) from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was selected as the President’s Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature. Evan received his Juris Doctor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he served on the Connecticut Law Review. While in law school, he interned with the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General in the environmental department, and served as a judicial intern for the judges of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court. Following law school, Evan clerked for the Honorable F. Herbert Gruendel of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

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