Property owners ask VA Supreme Court to rehear Lee statue case

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VIRGINIA NEWS
by: Dean Mirshahi
Posted: Sep 29, 2021 / 07:05 PM EDT / Updated: Sep 29, 2021 / 07:05 PM EDT

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Three weeks after the Robert E. Lee statue was hoisted off its pedestal in Richmond, a group of Monument Avenue property owners that challenged the state’s authority to take it down asked the Virginia Supreme Court to reconsider its unanimous decision that cleared the way for its removal.

The justices ruled in favor of the state in two legal challenges earlier this month, dissolving the injunctions that prevented Virginia from removing the Confederate monument for more than a year. In a petition filed Wednesday seeking a rehearing, the plaintiffs in one lawsuit accused the high court of making “several fundamental errors” ...

https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/monument-avenue-property-owners-ask-virginia-supreme-court-to-rehear-robert-e-lee-statue-removal-case/

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1. Court says city can ban Confederate flag in veterans parade

by Kate Brumback, Associated Press
Wednesday, September 29th 2021

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia city did not violate the constitutional rights of a Sons of Confederate Veterans group when it banned the Confederate battle flag from its annual parade honoring veterans of American wars, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Richard Leake and Michael Dean sued Alpharetta, an Atlanta suburb, in August 2019 after city officials said the Sons of Confederate Veterans could participate in the annual Old Soldiers Day Parade but could not display the battle flag. The federal civil rights lawsuit accused the city of violating the group's right to free speech under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

U.S. District Judge William Ray in June 2020 ruled in favor of the city ...

https://wcti12.com/news/nation-world/court-says-city-can-ban-confederate-flag-in-veterans-parade-09-29-2021

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2. Group raises money for monument relocation (TX)

By Miles Smith
Lockhart Post-Register

With just a couple of quick housekeeping items left to take care of, moving day draws near for the Confederate monument that has sat on the Caldwell Courthouse lawn for nearly a century.

It’s been more than a year since Caldwell County Commissioners voted to initialize the process of moving the monument to the Caldwell County Jail Museum in Lockhart after a nine person committee said they supported its removal and recommended the construction of a different monument memorializing the men and women who came to Lockhart via the Chisholm Trail.

The caveat: the citizens who wanted the monument placed in 1923 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy removed would have to raise the money necessary to relocate it, and the only company that bid on the job wanted $29,600 to complete it.

The grassroots effort to raise the money was ultimately successful ...

https://post-register.com/another-step-closer-group-raises-money-for-monument-relocation/

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3. If Civil War reenactments were honest

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4. Hilarious!

Love it! Too funny.