Weinbaum v. Las Cruces Public Schools

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BRACK, District Judge.

THIS MATTER comes before the Court on the parties’ cross motions for summary judgment (Docs.32, 38). Jurisdiction arises under 28 U.S.C. § 1381 (2000) and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2000).

This case concerns whether — in Las Cruces, New Mexico — the Establishment Clause allows the display of three Latin crosses on public school property. See U.S. Const, amends. I, XIV. Because the Court finds that Las Cruces’ name is widely understood in the community to mean “the crosses,” and that the Establishment Clause’s strictures are otherwise satisfied,…