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  • Commandments removed; County owes $150,000 (To ACLU)

    07/20/2005 11:48:17 AM PDT · by 11th_VA · 37 replies · 1,060+ views
    Athens Banner-Herald ^ | 20 July 2005 | By Todd DeFeo
    WINDER - A Ten Commandments display in the Barrow County Courthouse, which was the subject of a nearly two-year legal battle, has been quietly removed, in compliance with a federal court order. And Barrow County residents likely will be left with a $150,000 legal bill, the price it cost after one anonymous resident sued his government over the Judeo-Christian icon hanging in the breezeway of the county courthouse in downtown Winder. U.S. District Court Judge William O'Kelley entered an order Tuesday ordering that the Ten Commandments display be removed, according to court records. As a part of that order, Barrow...