First Amendment Rights of Amish In Battle Over New York Wind Project

[FTW]

The owner of the Alle-Catt project -- Chicago-based Invenergy – wants to build 117 turbines each standing approximately 600 feet high, across 30,000 acres (about 47 square miles) in Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Wyoming counties in New York.

But the Swartzentruber (Amish) families in Cattaraugus County don’t want the giant wind machines built near their homes or churches.

On that fact rests a big test for the First Amendment rights – and land rights -- of the Swartzentruber.

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