Suit Challenges Addition of Cross To Los Angeles County Seal

Yesterday, the ACLU announced that it has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a number of plaintiffs challenging the recent decision by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to modify the county seal by adding a cross atop the depiction of the San Gabriel Mission already on it. (See prior posting.) The complaint (full text) in Davies v. Los Angeles Board of County Supervisors, (CD CA, filed 2/6/2014), contends that the cross violates the Establishment Clause as well as provisions in the California constitution that protect free exercise and bar the expenditure of public funds to aid religion. Los Angeles Times reports on the filing of the lawsuit.