TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 17, 2019

Two years after a local non-profit removed Confederate monuments from two public parks it purchased from the City of Memphis, ownership of those statues has been transferred to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Commercial Appeal reports. The city sold the parks in 2017 to Memphis Greenspace Inc., a non-profit that promised then Gov. Bill Haslam it would relocate the monuments after removing them. The city’s Chief Legal Officer Bruce McMullen today confirmed the deal, saying the transfer of ownership of the statues happened a few days ago and upheld the promise Greenspace made to Haslam. The Sons of Confederate Veterans spent two years fighting an unsuccessful legal battle against the sale, which ended in October after the state Supreme Court opted not to hear the case. Details of the new arrangement have not been released.