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AM. CIV. LIBERTIES v. RABUN CTY. CHBR. OF COMMERCE

Civ. A. No. C79-2035A.

510 F.Supp. 886 (1981)

The AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF GEORGIA; Gene Guerrero, individually, and as Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia; Eduard N. Loring, Robert W. Karnan, Juda H. Mintz, and Joseph C. Cavallo, individually, Plaintiffs, v. The RABUN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INC.: The Honorable Joe D. Tanner, Commissioner, Department of Natural Resources, State of Georgia; and the Honorable George D. Busbee, Governor, State of Georgia, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

March 26, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Pickens, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Isaac Byrd, Atlanta, Ga., Frank Sutton, Clayton, Ga., G. Paris Sykes, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Dennis Cathey, Cornelia, Ga., and James V. Pleasants, St. Simons Island, Ga., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HORACE T. WARD, District Judge.

This dispute was engendered by the presence of a large, lighted Latin cross in Black Rock Mountain State Park, a Georgia state recreational facility located in Rabun County. Plaintiffs are the American Civil Liberties Union and its director, two Protestant ministers, a Catholic priest, and a rabbi. Defendants are the Rabun County Chamber of Commerce, which caused the cross to be erected, and two state officials...

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