On May 2, a judge issued an injunction against the city, which had decided to remove the Lee statue. Charlottesville will not be permitted to sell the statue within the next six months, as litigation proceeds.

The judge, however, did not apply the injunction to the city’s plan to rename Lee and Jackson parks. The city also will not be barred from initiating a master planning process to redesign the two historical districts where the parks are located.

The plan also includes a concept to build a new memorial in Jackson Park to those who were enslaved in the city.

In filing a lawsuit against the city’s decision to sell the Lee statue, the plaintiffs — a collection of local residents and the Virginia Division Sons of Confederate Veterans — allege the city’s vote to remove the statue violates a state law that protects war memorials.

The Monument Fund, to which some plaintiffs in the case have ties, disavowed the demonstration and said it was not involved in it.