Legal Opinion
Paulson v. Abdelnour
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 30, 2006No. D047702PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BENKE, Acting P. J.
In 1954 the City of San Diego (City) permitted a private veterans group to construct and thereafter maintain a large Latin cross (the cross) 1 on city parkland at the top of Mount Soledad. In 1991 the United States District Court for the Southern District of California held that because a Latin cross is the preeminent symbol of Christianity, its placement on Mount Soledad violates California’s prohibition against preference of a religion. The court granted a permanent injunction forbidding the presence of the cross and gave the City three months to comply with its…
2Cases cited42 opinions
- United States v. O'BrienSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Lynch v. DonnellySupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties UnionSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Wallace v. JaffreeSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Trunk v. City of San DiegoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2011
- Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, Inc. v. GatesDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2007
- Barnes-Wallace v. City of San DiegoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2008
- Trunk v. City of San DiegoDistrict Court, S.D. California · 2008
- Barnes-Wallace v. City of San DiegoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2010
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