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Saturday, July 06, 2013

Court Sides With Va City On Confederate Flag Ban

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Lexington's ban on the flying of the Confederate flag on city light poles does not violate a heritage group's right of free speech, a federal appeals court said Friday.

The three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond upheld a lower court ruling on the city's 2011 ordinance limiting flags that may fly on the poles to those representing the city, the U.S. and the state of Virginia.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans had challenged the ordinance, saying it violated its constitutional rights and violated a 20-year-old court order when it enacted the ordinance in September 2011.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

appeal it

Anonymous said...

You have to fight these progressives from banning everything.

Anonymous said...

South Carolina will not bend to the rules of the ignorant who have failed and refused to actually read the history.