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ACLU of Southern California Responds to Misleading Statements about Salazar v. Buono (aclu-sc.org)

Case: Salazar v. Buono
Affiliate: ACLU of Southern California
October 1, 2009 12:00 am
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An op-ed opinion piece, mistakenly identified as a Sacramento Bee editorial, rehashed misleading statements and made many more about our Mojave cross case, which will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 7. Ramona Ripston, ACLU/SC Executive Director, responds.

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Salazar v. Buono

Whether a congressional statute transferring a small parcel of land in the Mojave Desert National Preserve to private owners satisfies the government's obligation to cure the Establishment Clause violation created by a Latin cross on public land, when the government also designates the cross as a national memorial and retains a reversionary interest in the land.

Source: American Civil Liberties Union

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