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MindPilot

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2. I was sort of being facetious regarding the court's cross-on-public-land decisions.

Reply to cleanhippie (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 4, 2016, 04:05 PM

Jan 2016

Particularly Salazar v Buono where a land swap was organized by Congress, in which the property on which the cross stands was transferred to private hands. The property is something like 100 sq ft carved from the middle of wildlife preserve.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-472.ZS.html

The cross on Mt Soledad will in all likelihood go the same way.

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All they have to do is put up a cross. [View all] MindPilot Jan 2016 OP

What are you talking about? cleanhippie Jan 2016 #1

I was sort of being facetious regarding the court's cross-on-public-land decisions. MindPilot Jan 2016 #2

Yeah, you don't cross the Mormons Warpy Jan 2016 #3