The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday upheld a the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking the reinstallation of Confederate statues on the University of Texas Austin campus and a Confederate monument in a San Antonio city park.
The statues on campus had been installed in the 1930s, but following a 2017 demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a counter-protestor was killed, UT Austin president Gregory Fenves decided to remove the statues and had them placed in storage.
