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TexasTowelie

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Mon Mar 5, 2018, 03:11 AM Mar 2018

Tarps off: Charlottesville statue lawsuit looks headed to trial

In the latest court hearing on the lawsuit stemming from City Council’s vote a year ago to remove the statue of General Robert E. Lee, the tarps covering Lee and his Confederate general buddy, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, weren’t the main reason for the court date.

But the judge’s ruling that the shrouds must come down have set off a new round of outrage from anti-statue protesters and bolstered the plaintiffs assertion that council violated state law.

Outside Charlottesville Circuit Court February 27, dozens of protesters chanted, “If we don’t get it, shut it down.” Inside, Acting City Attorney Lisa Robertson argued the city’s demurrer, which is a motion to dismiss, and in legal circles, informally is defined as the defendant saying, even if the claims alleged in the suit are true, so what?

The big issue is whether the individual city councilors who voted to remove the Lee statue February 6, 2017, and the Jackson statue August 21—Wes Bellamy, Bob Fenwick, Kathy Galvin, Mike Signer and Kristin Szakos—are liable under Virginia’s war memorial protection statute that prohibits localities from removing or interfering with such monuments.

Read more: http://www.c-ville.com/tarps-off-statue-lawsuit-looks-headed-trial/#.Wpzs_XxG3RY

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