Final Opinion Strikes Down Transfer of Mt. Soledad Cross

Today's San Diego Union-Tribune reports that a Superior Court judge in San Diego, California issued a final ruling mirroring her tentative opinion last month finding the transfer of the Mt. Soledad Cross and the La Jolla land surrounding it to be unconstitutional. (See prior posting.) The full opinion in Paulson v. Abdelnour finds the transfer to be an unconstitutional preference of religion that violates Art. I, Sec. 4 of the California Constitution, and an unconstitutional aid to religion in violation of Art. XVI, Sec. 5 of the California Constitution.