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Lisa Robertson

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The jury is out: Judge agrees councilors have immunity in Confederate statue case

Five current and former city councilors can breathe a little easier now that a judge has ruled they aren’t personally liable for their votes to remove two Confederate statues downtown. […]

mattweyrich | July 16, 2019

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But their emails! Councilors must turn over docs in monument suit

  In a lawsuit aimed at keeping the statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in Charlottesville, city councilors have been ordered to turn over documents […]

Samantha Baars | June 20, 2018

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‘Trash bags’ can stay: Statue lawsuit moves forward

In the case of whether the city’s longstanding General Robert E. Lee statue should remain on its feet, a judge ruled October 4 that a lawsuit protecting it can go […]

Samantha Baars | October 5, 2017

News

Statute retroactive? Judge mulls city’s motion to throw out statue lawsuit

The battle over Charlottesville City Council’s vote to remove the statue of General Robert E. Lee continued in a packed courtroom September 1, with the lines pretty clearly drawn between […]

Lisa Provence | September 5, 2017

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