Legal Opinion
Philip K. Paulson v. City of San Diego Mt. Soledad Memorial Association, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 26, 2002No. 00-55406PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge GRABER; Dissent by Judge FERNANDEZ.
GRABER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is the latest chapter in a protracted saga centered around a 43-foot-high Latin cross that stands atop Mt. Soledad in San Diego, California. In an earlier chapter, we held that the presence of the cross in a publicly owned park violates the California Constitution, and we therefore affirmed an injunction forbidding the city from maintaining the cross on public land. In this chapter, we hold that the way in which the City of San Diego sold the cross to a private entity, which now maintains the cross, also…
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