BAYVIEW CROSS CASE

Attorneys for both sides of the Pensacola cross lawsuit have filed new legal arguments in federal court. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that a 40-foot cross erected in 1919 as a World War I memorial on public land in Maryland did not violate the Constitution’s Establishment Clause and sent the case back to the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, instructing the appeals court to rehear the case in light of the Maryland case. Attorneys with the American Humanist Association and the Freedom From Religion Foundation argue the case does not apply to Pensacola’s cross which has always been religious. No hearing date has been set for the case.

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