Legal Opinion
Salazar v. Buono
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 28, 2010No. 08-472PublishedCited by 202 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Kennedy
In 1934, private citizens placed a Latin cross on a rock outcropping in a remote section of the Mojave Desert. Their purpose and intent was to honor American soldiers *706who fell in World War I The original cross deteriorated over time, but a reconstructed one now stands at the same place. It is on federal land.
The Court is asked to consider a challenge, not to the first placement of the cross or its continued presence on federal land, but to a statute that would transfer the cross and the land on which it stands to a private party. Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004, Pub. L. 108-87,…
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