Judge: UT Confederate Statue Can Be Removed (TX)

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by Matthew Watkins
Aug. 27, 2015

The University of Texas at Austin will take down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the next few days after a Travis County judge denied a request by a southern heritage group to block the school’s plans.

State District Judge Karin Crump ruled Thursday that the Sons of Confederate Veterans didn’t have the right to sue to halt the statue’s removal. Even if it did, she found, it appears unlikely that the legal effort would have succeeded.

Crump seemed unswayed by the confederate group's arguments that the statue was too brittle or artistically and historically important to be relocated ...

https://www.texastribune.org/2015/08/27/judge-ut-confederate-statue-can-be-removed/

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1. Sons of Confederate Veterans Loses Another Appeal on Moving the Jefferson Davis Statue at UT (TX)

Posted by Bill OliverNews
Friday, August 28th, 2015

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ A Southern heritage group has lost an appeal to block the removal of a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis at the University of Texas.

A state district judge on Thursday rejected efforts by the Sons of Confederate Veterans to force the university to leave the statue near the campus’s iconic clock tower.

<White supremacist> Attorney Kirk D. Lyons said the group appealed that decision Friday to the Third Court of Appeals in Austin, but lost again ...

http://wtaw.com/2015/08/28/sons-of-confederate-veterans-loses-another-appeal-on-moving-the-jefferson-davis-statue-at-ut/