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By Kevin Krause
Dallas Morning News Reporter
A group called Return Lee to Lee Park had appealed a lower court decision tossing its lawsuit against city officials for removing a Robert E. Lee statue and a Confederate war memorial from city parks.
A state appeals court has upheld a judge’s decision to toss a lawsuit against the city of Dallas for removing two Confederate monuments from separate parks.
The 5th District Court of Appeals in Dallas issued its opinion on December 28, affirming a state district judge’s ruling last year throwing out a lawsuit brought by a nonprofit group called Return Lee to Lee Park and its president, Warren Johnson, as well as Katherine Gann.
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