Salazar v. Buono

Salazar v. Buono
Salazar v. Buono
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 7, 2009; Decided April 28, 2010
Full case name	Ken L. Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, et al., Petitioners v. Frank Buono
Docket no.	08-472
Citations	559 U.S. 700 (more) 130 S. Ct. 1803; 176 L. Ed. 2d 634
Case history
Prior	Permanent injunction granted, Buono v. Norton, 212 F. Supp. 2d 1202 (C.D. Cal. 2002); affirmed, 371 F.3d 543 (9th Cir. 2004); permanent injunction granted prohibiting land swap, 364 F. Supp. 2d 1175 (C.D. Cal. 2005); affirmed sub. nom., Buono v. Kempthorne, 502 F.3d 1069 (9th Cir. 2007); rehearing en banc denied, 527 F.3d 758 (9th Cir. 2008); cert. granted, 555 U.S. 1169 (2009).
Questions presented
	Whether an individual has Article III standing to bring an Establishment Clause suit challenging the display of a religious symbol on government land and if an Act of Congress directing the land be transferred to a private entity is a permissible accommodation.
Court membership
	Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia; Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas; Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer; Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor
Case opinions
Plurality	Kennedy, joined by Roberts; Alito (in part)
Concurrence	Roberts
Concurrence	Alito (in part)
Concurrence	Scalia (in judgment), joined by Thomas
Dissent	Stevens, joined by Ginsburg, Sotomayor
Dissent	Breyer
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. I

Salazar v. Buono, 559 U.S. 700 (2010), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The case concerned the legality of the Mojave Memorial Cross, a Latin cross which was placed atop a prominent rock outcropping by the Veterans of Foreign Wars foundation in 1934 to honor war dead. The location is known as "Sunrise Rock" in the Mojave National Preserve in San Bernardino County in southeastern California. The Supreme Court ruled that the cross may stay, but also sent the case back to a lower court, making the issue currently unresolved.^[1]

Salazar v. Buono
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 7, 2009 Decided April 28, 2010
Full case name	Ken L. Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, et al., Petitioners v. Frank Buono
Docket no.	08-472
Citations	559 U.S. 700 (more) 130 S. Ct. 1803; 176 L. Ed. 2d 634
Case history
Prior	Permanent injunction granted, Buono v. Norton, 212 F. Supp. 2d 1202 (C.D. Cal. 2002); affirmed, 371 F.3d 543 (9th Cir. 2004); permanent injunction granted prohibiting land swap, 364 F. Supp. 2d 1175 (C.D. Cal. 2005); affirmed sub. nom., Buono v. Kempthorne, 502 F.3d 1069 (9th Cir. 2007); rehearing en banc denied, 527 F.3d 758 (9th Cir. 2008); cert. granted, 555 U.S. 1169 (2009).
Questions presented
Whether an individual has Article III standing to bring an Establishment Clause suit challenging the display of a religious symbol on government land and if an Act of Congress directing the land be transferred to a private entity is a permissible accommodation.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor
Case opinions
Plurality	Kennedy, joined by Roberts; Alito (in part)
Concurrence	Roberts
Concurrence	Alito (in part)
Concurrence	Scalia (in judgment), joined by Thomas
Dissent	Stevens, joined by Ginsburg, Sotomayor
Dissent	Breyer
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I