Yesterday, a new lawsuit over the Mt. Soledad cross was announced by the ACLU which filed a complaint on behalf of the Jewish War Veterans and several San Diego residents challenging the constitutionality of the continued display of the cross now that the federal government has taken ownership of the land on which the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial stands. The full text of the complaint in Jewish War Veterans v. Rumsfeld, filed in federal district court for the Southern District of California, chronicles the long history of the dispute over the Mt. Soledad Cross. The complaint asks for a declaratory judgment that the continued display of the cross violates the Establishment Clause. It seeks an injunction against its display and asks the court to encourage and permit the cross to be moved, at the expense of individual citizens, to an appropriate non-governmental site.
The ACLU has posted background material about the dispute here and here.
