Judge throws out local attorney's confederate flag suit against Bentley (AL)
Posted on Sep 8, 2015
by Tiffeny Owens
... Melvin Hasting filed suit against Bentley, the Alabama Historical Commission and its acting director Lisa Jones in July, arguing the governor and historic commission had no authority to remove four flags from the Confederate Memorial on the capitol grounds in Montgomery.
“This was a knee-jerk reaction by the governor, and I don’t think he or the Alabama Historical Commission has the authority to remove the flag,” Hasting said in July. “The historical commission has the duty to protect and preserve our state’s history, and the Confederate flag and Confederacy is part of that history.”
Judge Truman Hobbs Jr. issued an order Tuesday dismissing the lawsuit, stating Hasting had no standing to file it since he could not show how he was injured by the flags’ removal ...
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