United States Ninth Circuit

The presence of a religious symbol such as a cross on once public land that has been transferred to a private party may still violate the Establishment clause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/06/2003
• Decided 06/07/2004
• Published 06/07/2004

Judges

• KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:, Before KOZINSKI and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, David C. Shilton, Charles R. Shockey, and Kathryn E. Kovacs, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, and Larry Bradfish, U.S. Department of the Interior, Oakland, CA, for the defendants-appellants., Peter J. Eliasberg and Mark D. Rosenbaum, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.