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struggle4progress

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Tue Sep 5, 2017, 06:07 PM Sep 2017

FL Judge denies request for injunction preventing move of monument

Mitch Perry

Hillsborough County Circuit Court Judge Rex Barbas denied a request for an injunction against Hillsborough County from removing the Confederate monument currently standing outside of the county courthouse annex.

... he has not .. dismissed their case.

Barbas wrote in his ruling that the plaintiffs – which includes Save Southern Heritage, Veterans’ Monuments of America and five other individuals — needed "a likelihood of irreparable harm; unavailability of an adequate legal remedy; a substantial likelihood of succeeding on the merits; and considerations of the public interest support the entry of the injunction."

He wrote that all four elements had to be established to support the granting of the injunction, and that upon further review, "they have not established the four elements necessary to entitle them to relief" ...

http://saintpetersblog.com/hillsborough-judge-denies-request-injunction-preventing-move-confederate-monument/

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