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struggle4progress

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Mon Jun 20, 2016, 09:40 PM Jun 2016

High court rejects Confederate flag appeal (VA)

​John Crane 3 hrs ago

... The court announced that it will not hear an appeal of a local judge’s decision that upheld Danville’s removal of the Third National Confederate flag from a monument on the grounds of the Sutherlin Mansion.

The Heritage Preservation Association — which requested that the court hear its appeal — will file a petition for a rehearing, HPA’s attorney, Kevin Martingayle, said Monday afternoon following the decision. The petition will be circulated among the seven-member court’s remaining four members who did not hear the initial argument, Martingayle said ...

The HPA has two weeks to file its petition.

In rejecting the appeal, the three-judge panel said it found “no reversible error in the judgment” of Danville Circuit Court Judge James J. Reynolds, who in October dismissed a lawsuit against the city filed by the HPA and others ...


http://www.godanriver.com/news/danville/high-court-rejects-confederate-flag-appeal/article_53ddbf0a-3727-11e6-b38f-bbcc4b4f7e9e.html

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