[DoodleDawg]

U.S. District Judge Larry Burns ordered the cross, which honors veterans, must be removed within 90 days -- a decision that could result in the case being sent back to the U.S. Supreme Court. Burns immediately stayed his order pending an expected appeal.

So it looks to me like the judge wants to put the whole case to rest once and for all by allowing the people who put up the monument to Christian veterans to take it to the Supreme Court. Otherwise why would he have immediately stayed his decision without a request by the plaintiff to do so?

[annalex]

why would he have immediately stayed his decision without a request by the plaintiff to do so?

Fro the same reason an engineer on a runaway train can still flash lights and toot the whistle.