If you don’t remember this case, here’s some background. Basically the Orange County Superior courthouse removed a Christmas tree dedicated to toy donations for poor children. Why? Because one member of the public complained about a potential religious symbol being present in a courthouse.

So the administration threw away twenty years of tradition, and was willing to let poor children go without presents on Christmas, in order to appease the political correctness police.

Well, after receiving dozens of complaints from actual staff members of the courthouse, and of course after national attention being drawn to this story, the administration has retreated. The Christmas tree is back in the lobby.

Orange County Superior Court officials decided to put a Christmas tree back in the courthouse lobby today after receiving dozens of complaints from court staff.

The tree – which was part of a solicitation of toy donations for needy children and has been a tradition in the courthouse for more than 20 years – was taken down earlier this week after a member of the public complained about it.

Upset court staff started circulating a petition to put the six-foot artificial tree back. The court also received dozens of complaints about the tree’s removal.

Court officials changed their mind and this afternoon, the tree was placed back in the lobby – adorned with tags encouraging donations to Operation Santa Claus.

“After assessing the situation, including case law on similar circumstances, and giving serious weight to the concerns expressed by staff, Judge (Kim) Dunning has concluded these trees are permissible for display in our lobbies,” the court’s chief executive officer, Alan Carlson, said in a statement. Dunning is the court’s presiding judge.

Good for Judge Dunning.

The war on Christmas and our nation’s heritage is never over.