The Second Circuit on Thursday rejected the Italian-American Defense League’s bid to revive its case challenging the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue from a park in New Haven, Conn.
The panel, which includes Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston, found the organization has standing to sue on behalf of its members who “suffered aesthetic harms” when the statue was removed from the historical Wooster Square Park, less than a mile from the Yale University campus. But the court rejected arguments that the city violated the due process rights of the league by removing the statue without giving the organization or ...