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### UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

_____________ No. 12

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_____________ FIRST KOREAN CHURCH OF NEW YORK, INC., Appellant

v. CHELTENHAM TOWNSH IP ZONING HEARING BOARD; CHELTENHAM TOWNSHIP

_ ____________ On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania District Court No. 2

- 05

- cv
- 06389 District Judge: The Hon orable Norma L. Shapiro

Submitted Pursuant to Third Circuit L.A.R. 34.1(a) January 14, 2013
Before: SMITH, CHAGARES, and BARRY, Circuit Judges (Filed: January 24, 2013 )

### 2 _________ _ ___________ JUDGMENT ORDER

_____________________ SMITH, Circuit Judge.
This cause came on to be considered on the record from the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and was submitted on January 1 4 , 2013

. First Korean Church o f New York, Inc. alleges that the Cheltenham Township and its Zoning Hearing Board violated its First Amendment right to religious freedom, its Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection, and
its rights under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalize d Persons Act of 2000 by preventing First Korean from using its prop erty as a church and seminary. The parties filed cross

- motions for sum mary judgment. The District Court granted summary judgment in favor of the Cheltenham Township and its Zoning Hearin g Board on all of First Korean’s claims ( and correspondingly denied First Korean’s

cross
- motion for summary judgment )

. First Korean then timely appealed the
District Court’ s decision to this Court.
The District Court had federal

- question jurisdiction unde r 28 U.S.C. § 1331 , and w e exercise appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We conduct plenary review of the District Court’s grant of summary judgment. Funk v. CIGNA Grp. Ins. , 648 F.3d 182, 190 (3d Cir. 2011 ). For substantially the same

### 3 reasons as those given by the District Court, we will affirm the District Court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the Cheltenham Township and the Cheltenham Zoning Hearing Board on all of First Korean Church’s claims. On consideration whereof, it is now her eby ADJUDGED and ORDERED that the judgment of the District Court entered February 29, 2012, be and the same is hereby AFFIRMED. Costs taxed against Appellant.

Attest:

Clerk Marcia M. Waldron,

DATED: January 24, 2013