By Kimberly Winston
(RNS) The decades-long battle over a cross erected on public land in California will drag out even longer now that the Supreme Court declined Monday (June 30) to hear the case.
In the last full day of the current session, the court said the case must first go to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals before the high court will consider it.
The conflict in Mount Soledad Memorial Association v. Trunk, is over a 43-foot cross that sits atop Mount Soledad on public land in San Diego. The cross was erected in the 1950s and has since become a veterans’ memorial.
A veterans group that maintains the cross asked the Supreme Court to let it leapfrog over the 9th Circuit after a lower federal court ruled last December that the cross should come down.
Read more at http://www.religionnews.com/2014/06/30/cross-mount-soledad-can-stay-now/