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American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey v. Hendricks, ___ N.J. ___ (2018).  In 2016, in a decision reported at 445 N.J. Super. 452 (App. Div. 2016), and discussed here, the Appellate Division invalidated as unconstitutional grants that the Department of Higher Education made to a Lakewood yeshiva and a Princeton seminary.  The basis for that decision was Article I, section 3 of the New Jersey Constitution, which provides, among other things, that no person shall “be obliged to pay tithes, taxes, or other rates for building or repairing any church or churches, place or places of worship,...