A judge decided on Friday to deny the motion filed by a civil rights group to intervene in the settlement made between the University of North Carolina and a Confederate group over a controversial Civil War statue called ‘Silent Sam’.
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights filed a motion to stop the $2.5 million settlement between the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors and the North Carolina Sons of Confederate Veterans for the monument, but a judge said there was a lack of standing in the case by the plaintiffs, WNCN