City must leave Confederate monuments in place while case is appealed, 5th U.S. Circuit Court rules
BY JEFF ADELSON
March 25, 2016; 10:57 a.m.
... A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an injunction preventing Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration from moving forward with the monuments’ removal until the court considers an appeal by the statues’ supporters.
Judges Edith Brown Clement, Jennifer Walker Elrod and Leslie H. Southwick, all appointed by former President George W. Bush, issued the order.
The decision overturns a ruling by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, that the city could go ahead with plans to remove the statues because the plaintiffs were unlikely to prevail at a trial ...
In their request for an injunction, the monument backers argued that allowing the process to go forward could result in irreparable harm to the statues if they are damaged during the removal. They said that damage would be impractical or impossible to repair and that while contractors would be on the hook for those repairs, the city’s bid documents do not require contractors to have insurance that would cover that cost ...
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