Re-Hearing Sought In Utah Highway Crosses Case

From the AP, ABC 4--Salt Lake City, Utah and Alliance Defense Fund:

Re-hearing sought in Utah highway crosses case




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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Utah Highway Patrol Association wants the full 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a panel of its own judges and leave in place 14 memorial crosses along Utah's highways.



In August, a panel of three judges ruled the 12-foot-high white crosses erected by the association to memorialize fallen Utah Highway Patrol troopers were an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.



In a petition to the court filed Wednesday, association lawyers called the ruling erroneous and asked for a rehearing of the case by the full panel of the Denver court's judges.



Texas-based American Atheists Inc., sued the state of Utah in 2005 over the use of the highway patrol's logo on the crosses.





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