Frank Buono
Respondent
Peter J. Eliasberg, Counsel of Record Frank Buono is a retired National Park Service employee who once worked in the Mojave National Preserve and now lives in Oregon. In March 2001, the American Civil Liberties Union joined Buono in filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Government challenging the display of an eight-foot cross first erected on Sunrise Rock in the preserve by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in 1934 as a war memorial. Buono, a Catholic, argued that the cross was a State endorsement of religion, as it was being displayed on public property and other religious displays had…
