Source web Tier B
Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, 42 U.S.C. §2000cc-2(a) and §2000cc-5(4)(A)
42 U.S.C. §2000cc-2(a): 'A person may assert a violation of this chapter as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and obtain appropriate relief against a government.' §2000cc-5(4)(A) defines 'government' to include 'any other person acting under color of State law.'
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- Record
- rluipa-42-usc-2000cc-2
- Type
- web
- Trust tier
- B
- Status
- published
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The statute’s text as reproduced by Cornell’s LII, read 2026-09-22; the definition is at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000cc-5. Graded B because LII is a rehost of the U.S. Code.
Provenance
- Creator
- United States Congress (text via Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)
- Published
- 2000
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- External record
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000cc-2
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