North Carolina Court of Appeals upholds Alamance County's refusal to remove Confederate monument, citing lack of authority under 2015 state law.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals upheld a local court's decision that Alamance County and its commissioners acted within constitutional limits by refusing to remove a Confederate monument outside the county courthouse. The statue, erected in 1914, was challenged in a 2021 lawsuit by the state NAACP and others, who argued the county leaders violated the state constitution by exercising discriminatory intent to protect a symbol of white supremacy. However, the appeals court ruled that the county commissioners lacked authority under a 2015 state law to remove the statue.