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G_j

(40,366 posts)
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 02:58 PM Feb 2020

Judge overturns Silent Sam settlement between UNC, Sons of Confederate Veterans

Source: abc 11

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- A judge has overturned the controversial deal between the University of North Carolina System and the Sons of Confederate Veterans over the Silent Sam monument. The agreement gave control of the statue to the Confederate group.

The deal, struck without public knowledge before Thanksgiving 2019, gave Silent Sam to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, set up a $2.5 million trust to pay for things related to the monument, and forked over an additional $75,000 to the Confederate group in exchange for the group agreeing to not wave Confederate flags on any UNC campus during the next five years.

Judge Allen Baddour ruled Wednesday the settlement between the two groups does not have standing.

His ruling dissolves the $2.5 million trust. However, lawyers for Sons of Confederate Veterans said some of that money has already been used.

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Read more: https://abc11.com/politics/judge-overturns-silent-sam-deal-between-unc-confederate-group/5924531/

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Judge overturns Silent Sam settlement between UNC, Sons of Confederate Veterans (Original Post) G_j Feb 2020 OP
Sears had a white sale so hell yes some of the $$ got used!! NoMoreRepugs Feb 2020 #1
Snort... hee hee hee LaurenOlimina Feb 2020 #2
Glad my mouth wasn't full!❤ Karadeniz Feb 2020 #3
I suppose the sons of hate brigade OneCrazyDiamond Feb 2020 #4
Kick Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 #5
I am all for people waving Nazi and Confederate flags. Gore1FL Feb 2020 #6
Get their pics into circulation. Future court cases involving these thugs. nt oasis Feb 2020 #7

Gore1FL

(21,027 posts)
6. I am all for people waving Nazi and Confederate flags.
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 10:09 PM
Feb 2020

It identifies people as the idiots they are.

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