The legal battle over a giant Latin cross that’s been standing in Pensacola’s Bayview Park for 75 years, sparked by a plaintiff who the court says sought to hold a satanic ritual nearby, appears bound for en banc review at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

A panel of three judges from the circuit court ruled Friday that efforts to keep the cross where it is lose out to precedent from a 35-year-old opinion. But then two of the panel’s judges wrote separately to invite a reversal, saying their precedent is wrong. The opinions together totaled 82 pages.

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