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The Plaintiff, the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, challenged the Pittsfield Charter Township, the Township Board, Township Supervisor Mandy Grewal, and six Township Board of Trustees Members for their refusal to re-zone the area surrounding the Plaintiff so that the Plaintiff could expand and build a school. Although an independent outside planner endorsed the rezoning, the Plaintiff alleged that the Respondents denied rezoning due to concerns from community members, stemming largely from an animus to the Islamic faith. By denying the rezoning proposal on this basis, the Plaintiff claimed that the Respondents discriminated against the organization in violation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, and "state law claims" in the Michigan state constitution. The Respondents filed a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss. The District Court determined that the Plaintiff sufficiently pleaded the Township Board of Trustees' individual liability under Section 1983. However, the District Court dismissed the other claims alleging violations of RLUIPA, the US Constitution, and the Michigan Constitution.

This statute regulates fishing and fisheries. This includes all activities related to fishing, the environment, the capture, cultivation, management and conservation of fish, as well as fishing vessels, fishermen, fishing permits, designated-fishing zones, and fishing ports.

This qanun divides Aceh into regencies (kabupaten) and municipalities (kota), which have vested power to regulate and coordinate their own domestic affairs. These regencies or municipalities are divided into sub-districts (kecamatan), which are administrative zones directly beneath, and responsible to, the relevant regent (bupati) or mayor (walikota). Sub-districts are then divided into residential (mukim) zones, headed by a residential head (imuem Mukim), which are divided into villages (gampong) and headed by a Keuchik.

The qanun also regulates the budgets and spending of these different areas, the powers of the regents and mayors, as well as the legislative powers of the regencies/municipalities.