Legal Opinion
Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, Inc. v. Gates
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 18, 2007No. Misc. 07-220, 07-221, 07-222(JDB)PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BATES, District Judge.
A large, concrete Latin cross has stood atop Mt. Soledad in San Diego, California for over fifty years. For almost the last twenty of those years, the cross and the veterans memorial of which it is now a part have been the subject of extensive litigation in the federal and state courts, as well as numerous legislative initiatives by local officials. Those legislative efforts shifted to the federal level in 2004, culminating in legislation through which the United States government first designated the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial as a national memorial…
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