and OTB workers to go to hell and unions representing OTB workers including Teamsters Local 858 (Barry Yomtov President/former NYC OTB Manager) stand idly by.
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Justices Decline Case on Highway Crosses
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: October 31, 2011
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal of a ruling that the placement of crosses on the side of Utah highways to honor fallen state troopers violated the First Amendment’s prohibition on government establishment of religion.
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Highway Patrol crosses honoring fallen state troopers along Interstate 15 in Utah.
The crosses are white and about 12 feet tall, with six-foot crossbars. They were donated by the Utah Highway Patrol Association, a private group, and placed near where the troopers had died. The crosses bear a trooper’s name, picture, badge number and biographical information, along with the symbol of the Utah Highway Patrol.
The Supreme Court’s establishment-clause jurisprudence has been shifting and confusing. The two appeals the court declined to hear on Monday — Davenport v. American Atheists, No. 10-1297, and Utah Highway Patrol Association v. American Atheists, No. 10-1276 — would have given the court an opportunity to clarify the murky guidance it has provided in this area.
The open questions start with the very meaning of the message conveyed by a cross. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, in Denver, ruled that the Latin cross was “unequivocally a symbol of the Christian faith.”
But that question has divided the justices as recently as last year, in Salazar v. Buono, a decision concerning a cross that had served as a war memorial in a remote part of the Mojave Desert.
“A Latin cross is not merely a reaffirmation of Christian beliefs,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote, joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. By way of example, Justice Kennedy wrote that “a cross by the side of a public highway marking, for instance, the place where a state trooper perished need not be taken as a statement of government support for sectarian beliefs.”
Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired last year, rejected that view. “The cross is not a universal symbol of sacrifice,” he wrote in a dissent joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor. “It is the symbol of one particular sacrifice, and that sacrifice carries deeply significant meaning for those who adhere to the Christian faith.”
§ 105. Supplementary regulatory powers of the board. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the board through its rules and regulations or in allotting dates for racing or in licensing race meetings at which pari-mutuel betting is permitted shall be empowered to: (i) permit racing at which pari-mutuel betting is conducted on any or all dates from the first day of January through the thirty-first day of December, inclusive of Sundays but exclusive of December twenty-fifth and Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday; and (ii) fix minimum and maximum charges for admission at any race meeting
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