Ken L. Salazar, et al.
Petitioners
Elena Kagan, Solicitor General In 1934, a California chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) erected a wooden cross on top of Sunrise Rock on Federal land in the Mojave Desert to serve as a memorial to war dead. Over the ensuing years, the cross served as a site of religious ceremonies and war memorial services. It has been replaced several times and is currently roughly eight feet tall and constructed from metal pipes. In 1999, the National Park Service (which took over management of the land when it was designated the Mojave National Preserve in 1994) refused a…
