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2-12-2003

Tenafly Eruv Assn v. Tenafly

Precedential or Non-Precedential: Precedential

Docket 01-3301

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PRECEDENTIAL 

 Filed February 12, 2003 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT 

No. 01-3301 

TENAFLY ERUV ASSOCIATION, INC.; 

CHAIM BOOK; YOSIFA BOOK; 

STEPHANIE DARDICK GOTTLIEB; 

STEPHEN BRENNER, 

 Appellants 

v. 

THE BOROUGH OF TENAFLY; 

ANN MOSCOVITZ, individually and 

in her official capacity as Mayor 

of the Borough of Tenafly; 

CHARLES LIPSON; MARTHA B KERGE; 

RICHARD WILSON; ARTHUR PECK; 

JOHN T. SULLIVAN, each individually 

and in their official capacities as 

Council Members of the Borough of Tenafly 

Appeal from the United States District Court 

for the District of New Jersey 

(D.C. Civil Action No. 00-cv-06051) 

District Judge: Honorable William G. Bassler 

Argued March 21, 2002 

Before: NYGAARD, ROTH and AMBRO, Circuit Judges 

 

 Robert G. Sugarman, Esquire 

 (Argued) 

 Harris J. Yale, Esquire 

 Craig L. Lowenthal, Esquire 

 Weil, Gotshal & Manges 

 767 Fifth Avenue, 27th Floor 

 New York, NY 10153 

 Richard D. Shapiro, Esquire 

 Hellring, Lindeman, Goldstein 

 & Siegal 

 One Gateway Center, 8th Floor 

 Newark, NJ 07102 

 Nathan Lewin, Esquire (Argued) 

 Alyza D. Lewin, Esquire 

 Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky 

 & Popeo 

 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 

 Suite 900 
 Washington, D.C. 20004 

 Attorneys for Appellants 

 Bruce S. Rosen, Esquire 

 McCusker, Anselmi, Rosen, Carvelli 

 & Walsh 

 127 Main Street 

 Chatham, NJ 07928 

 Walter A. Lesnevich, Esquire 

 Lesnevich & Marzano-Lesnevich 

 15 West Railroad Avenue 

 Tenafly, NJ 07670 

 Noah R. Feldman, Esquire (Argued) 

 New York University Law School 

 40 Washington Square South 

 New York, NY 10012 

 Attorneys for Appellees 

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 Kevin J. Hasson, Esquire 

 Anthony R. Picarello, Jr., Esquire 

 Roman P. Storzer, Esquire 

 Derek L. Gaubatz, Esquire 

 The Becket Fund for Religious 

 Liberty 

 1350 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., 

 Suite 605 

 Washington, D.C. 20036 

 Nathan J. Diament, Esquire 

 Union of Orthodox Jewish 

 Congregations 

 1640 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W. 

 Washington, D.C. 20036 

 Abba Cohen, Esquire 

 Agudath Israel of America 

 1730 Rhode Island Avenue, Ste. 504 

 Washington, D.C. 20036 

 David Zwiebel, Esquire 

 Mordechai Biser, Esquire 

 Agudath Israel of America 

 42 Broadway, 14th Floor 

 New York, NY 10004 

 Ronald K. Chen, Esquire 

 Rutgers Constitutional Litigation 

 Clinic 

 123 Washington Street 

 Newark, NJ 07102 

 Edward Barocas, Esquire 

 J.C. Salyer, Esquire 
 American Civil Liberties Union of 

 New Jersey Foundation 

 35 Halsey Street, Ste. 4B 

 Newark, NJ 07102 

 Attorneys for Amicus-Curiae 

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ORDER AMENDING SLIP OPINION 

AMBRO, Circuit Judge: 

It is now ordered that the published Opinion in the above 

case filed October 24, 2002, be amended as follows: 

In footnote 36, line 2, substitute the word "parochial" for 

the word "public." 

 By the Court, 

 /s/ Thomas L. Ambro 

 Circuit Judge 

Dated: February 12, 2003 

A True Copy: 

Teste: 

 Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals 

 for the Third Circuit 

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