March 31, 2022
A New Jersey homeowners association said Thursday it has, at last, reached a deal to settle allegations that it illegally tried to the stop the Ramapough Lenape Nation from conducting religious ceremonies on tribal land.
January 15, 2020
A New Jersey homeowners association told a federal judge that the Ramapough Lenape Nation's failure to raise conspiracy claims in prior state court cases over alleged efforts to bar the tribe from conducting religious ceremonies on its land means it can't bring them in its federal lawsuit.
March 18, 2019
The federal government told a New Jersey federal court Monday that the Ramapough Lenape Nation's suit against the township of Mahwah should go forward, saying the tribe had sufficiently alleged the town violated federal law by trying to stop the tribe from holding religious services on sacred land.
December 12, 2018
A New Jersey federal judge has approved a tribe and a township's request to restart litigation after the parties said their mediation talks failed to resolve the tribe's suit seeking to halt the issuance of summonses for prayer gatherings allegedly in violation of local zoning rules.
July 19, 2018
A New Jersey township told a federal court that a suit brought by the Ramapough Lenape Nation seeking to halt the issuance of summonses for gathering and holding prayers allegedly in violation of zoning rules was premature because its application to use the land was withdrawn.
June 12, 2018
A federal judge on Monday declined to issue a temporary restraining order that the Ramapough Lenape Nation sought to block a New Jersey township from imposing fines against the state-recognized tribe in an alleged bid to stop members from gathering on a piece of land to pray.
June 08, 2018
The Ramapough Lenape Nation has urged a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to block a New Jersey township from assessing daily fines against the state-recognized tribe in an alleged bid to stop members from gathering on a parcel of land to pray.