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© Getty Images The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state s prior ban on the removal of war memorials does not apply to those built before 1997, which include two statues of Confederate generals in the city of Charlottesville, paving the way for them to be taken down. The decision ends a years-long legal battle over the removal of two statues, one of Stonewall Jackson and another of Robert E. Lee, from city parks that previously bore their names.  The Statues accepted by the City of Charlottesville in the 1920s were not acquired pursuant to the authority conveyed by [the state law governing the erection and removal of war memorials], so the removal or covering of those statues is not regulated by the prohibitions stated in [the law], wrote the state Supreme Court in its decision.

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