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BY DAVE SCHWAB Staff Writer Following the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that the Mount Soledad cross on federally owned property is unconstitutional, legal scholars think the issue ultimately could be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But it’s even more likely that whether the cross as a Christian symbol constitutes an unconstitutional “government preference” for religion, will be tested one last time in the local court system before possibly moving to a larger stage. “The only place for it to go higher than the Ninth Circuit is the U.S. Supreme Court,” said Glenn Smith, professor of constitutional law at California Western School of Law. “But the current (9th Circuit) summary judgment lets it go back down to the district court to let that court decide what should happen.”
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Both medical centers have big plans in La Jolla BY KATHY DAY Staff Writer f you get the sense there’s competition between UCSD Medical Center and Scripps Health, you’re right, although the CEOs won’t actually say it in as many words. Both of San Diego’s major medical providers are in the midst of major expansions and have CEOs who contend their facilities are the best around. Chris Van Gorder says Scripps is aiming to continue the legacy
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of Ellen Browning Scripps who donated money 86 years ago for Scripps Memorial Hospital and the Scripps Metabolic Clinic as a “compassionate place of caring” for the ill and injured and as a place to “to research new and promising treatments.” His counterpart at UCSD, Tom Jackiewicz, says the goal at UCSD is to “hold ourselves out as the best on the planet.” One can just picture them walking through their neighboring sites off Genesee Avenue — each wondering what cuttingedge piece of equipment or patient-focused feature the other is including. There, adjacent to UCSD’s Thornton Hospital, work is set to start in 2012 on
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the UCSD Jacobs Medical Center with its three hospitals. Just to the north, at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, work is expected to start in June on a project that calls for three new hospital towers, two medical office buildings and an outpatient center. Moving forward On top of building massive new main hospitals, both groups are moving forward with multi-million-dollar proton therapy centers for cancer treatment and research use, and both have new cardiovascular centers in the works.
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La Jolla mystery: Who damaged the 52-year-old Torrey pine? BY DAVE SCHWAB Staff Writer A half-century-old Torrey pine in Bird Rock may just have been “murdered.” The “victim” at 5372 Calumet Ave. across from San Colla Street is not yet dead, according to Gerald S. Kibby, who sent a note to the Light. But wounds inflicted in the form of circular cuts made around its base by an unknown assailant may ultimately prove fatal. “I have been trying to add shade and beauty to the neighborhood. ... My limbs and foliage have been trimmed regularly so as to improve the view of the ocean,” wrote Kibbey, executor of the Eunice M. Rice Estate
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