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The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that a New Jersey town will pay an Islamic group $3.25 million to settle a lawsuit over its denial of a permit to build a mosque. Under the settlement, the group will be allowed to build the mosque and the town agreed to limit the zoning restrictions placed on houses of worship. The Islamic Society of Basking Ridge sued Bernards Township, an upscale town in central New Jersey, last year, claiming it changed its zoning ordinances in order to deny the group's plans.