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Appeals Court upholds Gaston Co. decision to keep Confederate statue
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld Gaston County’s decision to maintain a Confederate monument near the county courthouse.
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Appeals Court rejects Pitt County Confederate monument lawsuit
The North Carolina Court of Appeals split, 2-1, Wednesday in rejecting a lawsuit challenging the removal of a Confederate monument from the Pitt County courthouse.
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State’s highest court rejects lawsuit over Asheville’s Confederate monument removal
A unanimous North Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit challenging Asheville’s removal of a downtown Confederate monument in 2021. It’s the same end result reached at lower courts, though Supreme Court justices reached their decision for different reasons.
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State Appeals Court rejects lawsuit challenging Alamance Confederate monument
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has rejected a lawsuit challenging the Confederate monument outside the Alamance County Courthouse in Graham. Tuesday’s unanimous decision affirmed a trial judge’s ruling against monument critics.
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NC Supreme Court hears lawsuit over removal of Asheville monument
The North Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments recently in a lawsuit brought by The Society for the Historical Preservation of the 26th North Carolina Troops against the City of Asheville over the removal of a monument honoring former North Carolina governor and confederate colonel Zebulon Baird Vance.
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Appeals Court upholds ruling for Louisburg in Confederate monument dispute
The state Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial judge’s ruling in favor of Louisburg in a legal dispute over the 2020 removal of a Confederate monument on Main Street. The monument had stood downtown for 106 years.
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State Supreme Court will review suit over removal of Asheville monument
The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to take up the case of a dispute over removal of a Confederate monument in Asheville. In orders issued Friday, the court blocked an April ruling from the state Appeals Court and agreed to review the case.
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Raleigh Rally Supports Alabama Display
RALEIGH — About 200 people rallied Wednesday at North Carolina's State Capitol in support of public displays of the Ten Commandments and unrestricted acknowledgments of God. Organizers of the rally are leading a series of demonstrations that began Sunday in Montgomery, Ala., where Chief Justice Roy Moore was ordered to remove a 5,300-pound monument from that state’s capital rotunda. The sculpture was inscribed with the Ten Commandments and Moore’s case has caused a national outcry from conservative Christians over the removal of God from public places.
