Editing Lake Elsinore, California (section)

===Lake Elsinore Diamond===
[[File:Lake elsinore diamond.jpg|right|325px|thumb|Lake Elsinore Diamond, 2008]]
[[Lake Elsinore Diamond]] serves as a site for the Single A baseball team [[Lake Elsinore Storm]], which is a farm team for the San Diego Padres, and was formerly a farm team for the [[Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim]]. Also, it held now-disbanded semipro football teams: The [[Riverside-Elsinore Dolphins]] of the [[Western States Football League]] was active in 1996–98. The stadium hosted the [[Banning-Elsinore Eagles]] of the [[California Football Association]], a minor [[American football]] league. It used to host the Elsinore-Murrieta Bandits, a semipro soccer team in the 2010s. In 2020, neither football or soccer is played at "the Diamond", but special events, such as concerts with stars such as [[Willie Nelson]] and [[ZZ Top]], are held there.

====Cross monument lawsuit====
In 2012, the city council voted to approve $50,000 for a memorial to veterans that would be placed in front of the stadium. The design of the memorial included a soldier kneeling in front of a [[Christian cross]]. After repeated warnings to the city council from the city attorney and others that endorsing religion using public funds is unconstitutional, the city council unanimously voted to include a [[Star of David]], as well as more Christian crosses. In 2013, the [[American Humanist Association]] filed suit to prevent the building of the monument.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lake Elsinore: Cross will remain on veterans memorial|url=https://www.pe.com/2012/11/13/lake-elsinore-cross-will-remain-on-veterans-memorial/|newspaper=The Press-Enterprise|date=November 13, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Lake Elsinore: Humanist group sues over cross on planned monument|url=https://www.pe.com/2013/06/03/lake-elsinore-humanist-group-sues-over-cross-on-planned-monument/|newspaper=The Press-Enterprise|date=June 3, 2013}}</ref> The [[Pacific Justice Institute]] provided free legal representation to the city in the suit.<ref name=PEBlocked>{{cite news|last1=Sheridan|first1=Tom|title=LAKE ELSINORE: Judge halts memorial planned for The Diamond|url=http://www.pe.com/articles/lake-684233-elsinore-city.html|access-date=March 30, 2015|work=[[The Press-Enterprise]]|date=February 27, 2014}}</ref> A federal court issued a [[preliminary injunction]] in July 2013 halting the project, and in February 2014 ruled that the design "violates both the U.S. Constitution's [[Establishment Clause]] and the Establishment and No Preference Clauses of the [[California Constitution]]."<ref name=PEBlocked/><ref>''[https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1964392145987967075 American Humanist Association v. City of Lake Elsinore]'', Case No. 5:13-cv-00989 (C.D. Cal. February 25, 2014).</ref> The City Council declined to appeal the decision, and agreed to pay plaintiffs $200,000 in attorneys' fees and to develop a revised design for the memorial.<ref name=PEConcede>{{cite news|last1=Williams|first1=Michael|title=LAKE ELSINORE: Vets memorial dispute costs city $200,000|url=https://www.pe.com/2014/04/29/lake-elsinore-vets-memorial-dispute-costs-city-200000/|access-date=March 31, 2015|work=[[The Press-Enterprise]]|date=April 29, 2014}}</ref> At a meeting in June 2014, the council approved an amended design.<ref name=PEAmended>{{cite news|last1=Williams|first1=Michael|title=LAKE ELSINORE: Veterans memorial plan gets council approval|url=http://www.pe.com/articles/memorial-696144-city-veterans.html|access-date=March 31, 2015|work=[[The Press-Enterprise]]|date=June 12, 2014}}</ref> The {{convert|3,600|lb|adj=on}} memorial, absent of religious symbols, was finally installed and commemorated in November 2014.<ref name=PEFinally>{{cite news|last1=Williams|first1=Michael|title=LAKE ELSINORE: Legal battles over, veterans memorial finally built|url=http://www.pe.com/articles/city-753444-monument-granite.html|access-date=March 31, 2015|work=[[The Press-Enterprise]]|date=November 4, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Preparations Underway, Veterans Memorial to be Unveiled|url=http://lake-elsinore.org/index.aspx?recordid=1068&page=26|website=City of Lake Elsinore|access-date=March 31, 2015|date=October 8, 2014|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402114443/http://lake-elsinore.org/index.aspx?recordid=1068&page=26|url-status=dead}}</ref>