Supreme Court Declines to Hear Highway Cross Appeal
On Monday, October 31, 2011, the United States Supreme Court voted 8-1 to decline to hear an appeal of a lower court’s decision that the placement of 12 foot high crosses on the side of
The high court’s refusal to take the case
means that the 10th Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling that the 14 crosses erected on public property constitute a government
endorsement of Christianity will stand.
Although
the Supreme Court provided no reason for its refusal to hear the appeal,
Justice Clarence Thomas issued a 19 page dissent, saying that the court
had rejected “an opportunity to provide clarity to an establishment-clause
jurisprudence in shambles.”
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