to allow for the administrative tasks necessary for the completion of a potentially invalid land transfer. B. Validity of Land Transfer Plaintiff contends that the land transfer directed by Section 8121 is a sham by Defendants to preserve the Latin cross in the Preserve. Defendants contend that the transfer of the land on which the cross stands to private ownership will remedy the Establishment Clause violation. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (“Seventh Circuit”) has held that, “[ajbsent unusual circumstances,” the sale of public property containing an unconstitutional religious display “is an effective way for a public body to end its inappropriate endorsement of religion.” Freedom from Religion Found., Inc. v. City of Marshfield, Wisconsin, 203 F.3d 487, 491, 492 (7th Cir.2000) (<HOLDING>); see also Mercier v. Fraternal Order of
recognizing that picture of jesus christ in public school impaired use of school by students and visitors holding that plaintiffs have standing to challenge the constitutionality of monument inscribed with the ten commandments placed on government land by private organization even though government did not maintain the structure holding where exempt organization was in possession of real property under land contract obligating organization to pay the purchase price and use land for exempt purpose the association was the owner of the land within the meaning of the statute holding that the sale of 015 acres of city park land containing a statute of jesus christ to a private organization validly extinguished any government endorsement of religion because there were not unusual circumstances holding that the sale of 440 square feet of a city park containing a ten commandments monument to a private organization was valid because there were no unusual circumstances