{"id":87074,"date":"2022-10-28T00:14:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T05:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87074"},"modified":"2022-10-28T00:14:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T05:14:55","slug":"87074","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87074","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/courts-law\/georgia-supreme-court-allows-residents-sue-keep-confederate-statues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia Supreme Court Allows Residents to Sue to Keep Confederate Statues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that residents may sue county governments for removing Confederate monuments, but people who do not live in the county do not have the standing to sue.<\/p>\n<p>The court on Tuesday upheld an appeals court dismissal of lawsuits filed by Sons of Confederate Veterans against Newton and Henry counties because the group lacked standing \u2014 because its members do not live in the community.<\/p>\n<p>However, the court upheld the case brought by Newton County resident T. Davis Humphries, who sued after her county voted in 2020 to remove a Confederate statue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Supreme Court Allows Residents to Sue to Keep Confederate Statues The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that residents may sue county governments for removing Confederate monuments, but people who do not live in the county do not have the standing to sue. The court on Tuesday upheld an appeals court dismissal of lawsuits filed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87074\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87075,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87074\/revisions\/87075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}