Lawsuit ends over Confederate monument outside North Carolina courthouse

FILE - A Confederate monument stands outside the Alamance County Courthouse in Graham, N.C., Oct. 7, 2020. A lawsuit challenging a North Carolina county’s decision to keep in place its government-owned Confederate monument is over. GRAHAM, N.C.

The deadline to request a review by the state Supreme Court has passed, according to appellate rules. Following the March decision, the plaintiffs “recognized the low probability of this case proceeding to a full trial,” Marissa Wenzel, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said Thursday while confirming no appeal would occur.

The monument, dedicated in 1914 and featuring a statue of a Confederate infantryman at the top, had been a focal point of local racial inequality protests during 2020 following the murder ofTexas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptionsA three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals panel agreed unanimously that the county had kept the statue at its longtime location in accordance with a 2015 state law that limits when an “object of remembrance” can be...

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