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U.S. Supreme Court

Sep. 29, 2009

An Unexpected Journey to the High Court

ACLU lawyer Peter J. Eliasberg never dreamed a dispute over a cross erected on federal land would be his first U.S. Supreme Court case.

By Lawrence Hurley
Daily Journal Staff Writer

WASHINGTON - When Los Angeles-based American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Peter J. Eliasberg first heard about a controversial cross erected on federal land, it didn't seem like a case that would end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.

They never do.

But 10 years later, Eliasberg is frantically preparing for his first argument before the high court in an Establishment Clause case that is one of the hi...

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